Copyright affects us all as we are all authors nowadays. At the same time few artists know how to work without infringing copyright. Various customs evolve, but they rarely have anything in common with black letter copyright law. This year, at CopyCamp Antonio Roberts will tell us more about such customs. Register: http://copycamp.pl/en/

Maksym Naumko will tell us at CopyCamp 2017 about challenges for digitisation projects in a state where there is no freedom of panorama and decommunization laws require that remains of the previous regime are removed. Next week! Register: http://copycamp.pl/en/

When we buy something, what does it mean exactly? This year at CopyCamp, Aaron Perzanowski (co-author, The End of Ownership) will tell us about property in the digital world. Register: http://copycamp.pl

Software paid for from public money should be available under a free license with full source code and documentation. We are one of signatories of the open letter prepared by the Free Software Foundation Europe as a part of the PMPC campaign (https://publiccode.eu/). FSFE is one of CopyCamp partners and they will be talking about PMPC at the conference this year.

To replace composers with computers take a musical archive and a learning algorithm. A program that implements the algorithm will create a model of a digital composer, who in turn will compose own music. How many such composers will fit into your laptop’s hard drive? Join us at CopyCamp where Nick Briz will tell us more about using machine learning in music.

Where lies the boundary between inspiration and appropriation? Can designers draw from culture? Why practices common a few decades ago are no longer acceptable? Ariele Elia – Department Coordinator for the MFA Fashion Design program at the New York Fashion Institute of Technology, will talk about appropriation in fashion at CopyCamp this year. Register: http://copycamp.pl/en/

„Did they like it? – many artists would love to know. User data analysis may help to find an answer, as well as to predict trends while planning new album releases, concert tours, marketing strategies. Who owns this data and who is allowed to use it? Where lies the balance between interests of authors, publishers, and users’ privacy? This year at CopyCamp we will spend some time to seek answers to these questions. We especially would like to invite you to the presentation of Gloria González Fuster.

We have just updated the list of our CopyCamp workshops with one more meeting. It will be about researching the impact of expanding user rights in copyright. The workshop will be conducted by: Teresa Nobre (Communia), Paul Keller (Kennisland), and Sean Flynn (American University Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property). Register: https://copycamp.pl/en/info/workshops/ (photo: Daniel Mee, Workshop, flickr, CC-BY)

Defending freedom of the internet can be absorbing to a degree that threatens individuals’ health or even life. Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder of Hacking with Care will appear at CopyCamp and will also conduct a workshop on techniques that help to deal with the resulting personal issues. (Photo: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung@flickr, CC-BY-SA).

This year at CopyCamp Jacob Wang, Pernille Feldt, and Martin Appelt, representing Danish heritage institutions, will share their experience in digitising national heritage. Apart from a presentation, they will also conduct a workshop. Join it if you are interested how modern museums work. The workshop will revolve around such issues as coexistence of traditional and digital collections, preserving multi-vocality, and ethical challenges for digitisation. Register at: http:/copycamp.pl/en/