What if we consider that sharing a digitally published work in one’s possession with other individuals is a fundamental right? What if we break away from the idea of compensating the entertainment right holders for supposed harms resulting from this sharing and ask ourselves what is a reasonable reward and financing model for sustaining a many-to-all cultural society? How many people do we need to reward, how much money for support to production of new works? What will be the diversity of attention to works and creators? Which reward for a given level of usage? The talk will open a discussion on these topics, based on work conducted for “Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age”, forthcoming at Amsterdam Univ. Press in November 2011.
About Philippe
Philippe Aigrain is presently CEO of Sopinspace, Society for Public
Information Spaces, a company that he founded in 2004. Sopinspace
develops free software and provides commercial services for democratic
processes and collaborative work over the Internet. In parallel, he is
active as an analyst of the stakes of the information revolution and
engaged in actions for the reform of intellectual rights regimes. This
is part of a long commitment to the development of technical tools,
processes and social environments that help everyone to be more
creative, more capable of critical thinking and constructive exchanges
with others.
Philippe has a number of NGO responsibilities. He is one of the
founders of La Quadrature du Net, a citizen group defending fundamental
rights and freedoms in the digital sphere and promoting policy
proposals for the the digital era. He serves of the board of directors
of the Software Freedom Law Center and on the Board of Trustees of the
NEXA Center for Internet and Society (Torino, Italy).
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Tuesday, September 20, 12:30 pm
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Source: cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/09/aigrain
