Category: culture

The Modern Poland Foundation presents the results of the research on the possible future scenarios of creating, sharing and using cultural goods and the impact of copyright on the state of European society, culture, education and creative sectors in the perspective of the year 2040.

Copyright law is a lens focusing a lot of different and complex problems – from issues related to fundamental rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of communication and right to privacy, through constitutional models of political life, to tectonic changes in the markets caused by technological changes. The status of this legislation determines not only the work of many business sectors, but also the basic issues related to communication of hundreds of millions of people, a lot of citizens treating copyright law as a way of earning a living, level of education, or the operation of high culture.

(from Introduction by Jarosław Lipszyc)

The report summarising the project is available in Polish and English.

We are pleased to have launched an Open Call for speakers at the International CopyCamp Conference 2014. This year we will focus on the social impacts of copyright. CopyCamp will take place on November 6-7 in Warsaw.

If you are interested in the subject of copyright and would like to express their opinion, submit a presentation proposal by the 15th of June.

To take part in the conference as a speaker, please submit your presentation summary of max. 1800 characters via speaker registration form. In order to simply attend the conference, please sign up using participant registration form.

Submitting your proposal, please choose one of the following thematic tracks:

• CopyArt
• Creative Middle Class
• How to Pay?
• How to Be Paid?
• Copyright and Education
• Technology and Innovation
• Copyright and Human Rights
• Self-Publishing
• Future of the Book
• Copyright Enforcement
• Future of Copyright
• Copyright Debate

On the basis of the proposal summary, the appointed jury will select about 30 speakers of this year’s CopyCamp. Please note: your presentation should not exceed 10 minutes.

Please find more information at copycamp.pl!

On October 29, 2013 in Nie Zawsze Musi Być Chaos there was an open meeting promoting the collection of texts by Ebena Moglena translated and published by the Modern Poland Foundation.

You can watch the meeting here:

The book will be soon available through the prawokultury.pl website.

Enjoy!

Presentation of prof. Eben Moglen at the CopyCamp conference is available at copycamp.pl.

We know the winner of the Future of Copyright 2.0 contest!
The Jury have chosen nine works and among them the best one: A penny for Your Thoughts by Talllama. Congratulations!

Great thanks to everyone for your support!

We have published an e-book with the works chosen by the jury:

• in pdf format
• in epub format
• in mobi format

You may also enjoy audio-book recorded by Jury Member Mike Linksvayer.

Have fun!

Modern Poland Foundation is again asking people all over the world about their vision of the future of copyright. There are now 4 days to go before the end of the crowd founding campaign and there are 4 weeks left before the deadline to submit the work for the Future of Copyright Contest.

The Modern Poland Foundation announced the second edition of the contest on the future of copyright law.
Like last year, we invite you to write, sing and record about the visions of the future of copyright law. Also we encourage you to support this project by funding the prizes.
On the contest page you can find the rules for participation in the contest and support the pool of prizes to participants.
The deadline is 1st July 2013. The work must be published under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

The picture attached is a remix based on Leonardo da Vinci’s „Lady with an Ermine” and Johannes Vermeer’s „Girl with a Pearl Earring”, remix by Radek Czajka.

Translation: Paulina Wawer

In compliance with the previous announcement the Ministry of Administration and Digitization informed on its website about the commencement of the consultations on the Open Public Resources Bill. The consultations will last untill 21 January 2013. Comments can be presented on the website mamzdanie.pl and the document is to be found in The Public Information Bulletin as well.

translation: Karolina Herynowska

The Modern Poland Foundation has launched a social campaign 'The Right to Culture’. Its main goal is to enhance public awareness of freedoms under the copyright law.

The message is carried by three simple statements which are consistent with the copyright law, but often wrongly seen as a violation:

I have the right to copy books.
I have the right to download films.
I have the right to share music.

On September 26, a CopyCamp conference will be held by the Modern Poland Foundation. It will take place in a Warsaw cinema of a great tradition: Kultura. The meeting will be fully devoted to the issues relating to the copyright law. For the first time, the representatives of (sometimes extremely) diverse views on the availability of cultural goods and active participation in culture will meet in such a wide circle. The aim of the event is to enable them to enter into a dialogue.

Our special guest will be Nina Paley, a famous American cartoonist and activist belonging to the free culture movement. Among guests who have confirmed their participation are: Paweł Zalewski, Hirek Wrona, Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg, Artur Kurasiński, Krzysztof Lewandowski, Radek Czajka – please see more details on the conference website.