[Rumori] giant copyleft conference in spain next week

[Anki Toner]

I do recognise some of the names... of course I am Spanish.

I attended (part of) the Barcelona conference last year. There was a 
nice Vandana Shiva talk and I can't remember much more  except the kind 
of neverending debate supposed to convinced the already convinced  
(since the opposing part, the "bad guys", of course, did not  show up. 
This was in a much modest left-winged setting, though. Arteleku is a 
public-funded official-culture space, where SGAE (Spanish monopolistic 
equivalent of  BMI or ASCAP, though it is closer to RIAA, which has no 
equivalent here) can't afford not to show up.

I will not attend that one, since I live 600 kms away, but I can tell 
you the chosen days are very bad, since friday 24th is a national 
holiday, which makes this one a long weekend.

But, yes, some interesting things are happenning on the copyright wars 
here in Spain, some of them good, some quite disappointing (like a new 
law on the horizon). Spain must be one of the main P2P downloaders (not 
exactly sharers) of the world, and the general perception in society is 
that  "piracy" (forgive me for the word, it is the only word used here, 
it applies to everything) is good, whatever the media say.

I cannot comment on hacklabs since I never attended any.

PS: The experimentaclub (www.experimentaclub.com) will have a 
conference/debate section this year, coordinated by yours truly, where 
one of the debates will be about "illegal art/music" and another one 
about "mp3 (the format)". Other interesting things about the festival 
include (if my information is right) a People Like Us concert. We had a 
fantastic ECC concert last year ( you can see the pics here: 
http://www.experimentaclub.com/fest04/the_ecc.htm), and I am trying to 
keep this rate of at least one anticopyright militant artist per year 
(though I am not programming the music part of the festival)

Anki Toner


Steev Hise wrote:

>giant copyleft conference in spain next week
>
>http://ana-en.blogspot.com/2005/06/copyleft-days.html
>
>version en espanol:
>http://ana-es.blogspot.com/2005/06/jornadas-copyleft.html
>
>official site for it:
>http://kopyleft.net/
>
>wow i dont recognize ANY of the names. musical acts include
>Defunkid, R13, Izate, Mattin
>
>hmm.
>
>anyone on this list going and want to report on it?
>
>
>this brings up a thing i recently heard of that happens in spain
>a lot, something called a 'hacklab'  - from what i can tell its
>like a combination of a squat, a lan party, and an artist
>collective. or something...
>
>
>best,
>
>steev
>
>
>
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