[ILUG] Darklight:re Irish Linux Users Group

[nicky at sink.ie]

Hi, we thought this might be of interest to users in the Irish Linux Users Group
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Free conference in Irish Film Center Dublin November 17th 2001-10-23
The Darklight Perspectives Conference
-Ownership and distribution of creative content on the Internet-

Darklight Perspectives sets out to directly address a fundamental issue of importance to the future development of digital creative community in Ireland and their audience.

This conference, the first of its kind in Ireland, will bring together speakers at the top of their fields of on-line visual arts, music, film, open source/free software advocates and law. 

Speakers include:
Laurence Lessig:  Stanford Law School
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessigbio.html
Ian Clarke:  Developer Freenet http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ Joshua Davis:  Designer and Flash Developer  http://www.praystation.com    

OTHER SPEAKERS FROM FILM AND MUSIC INDUSTRIES TO BE ANNOUNCED

We invite producers, authors, students, filmmakers, artists, designers, hackers, crackers, DJs, animators, legals, journalists, musicians, media moguls, net addicts, coders and any other interested parties to attend this one day event.

The speakers will examine issues of control, access to and distribution of artists' work on the Internet, and will ask the questions:

-Have we merely preserved the distribution status quo and quashed the revolutionary potential of independent online distribution?

-Are we leaving it up to the lobbying multinational corporations to decide how we will access, distribute and share content?

-We will look at other methods of ownership, distribution and payment - opensource, free software, peer to peer networks, micropayments and tipping

-The legislative erosion of fair use of content has gone largely unnoticed in Europe. The increased protection for artists work that Digital Rights Management provides is important but is the narrowing down of Fair Use a reasonable price to pay?

-We will ask the question: How does this relate to and effect Film, Music, Visual Arts, Broadcasting and Writing.

Seating is limited so early registration is essential.  To register e-mail events at darklight-filmfestival.com with register as the subject.  We hope to see you there.

For more info and updates go to www.darklight-filmfestival.com


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Free conference in Irish Film Center Dublin November 17th 2001-10-23
The Darklight Perspectives Conference
-Ownership and distribution of creative content on the Internet-

Darklight Perspectives sets out to directly address a fundamental issue of importance to the future development of digital creative community in Ireland and their audience.

This conference, the first of its kind in Ireland, will bring together speakers at the top of their fields of on-line visual arts, music, film, open source/free software advocates and law. 

We invite producers, authors, students, filmmakers, artists, designers, hackers, crackers, DJs, animators, legals, journalists, musicians, media moguls, net addicts, coders and any other interested parties to attend this one day event.

Speakers include:
Laurence Lessig:  Stanford Law School
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessigbio.html
Ian Clarke:  Developer Freenet http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ Joshua Davis:  Designer and Flash Developer  http://www.praystation.com    

OTHER SPEAKERS FROM FILM AND MUSIC INDUSTRIES TO BE ANNOUNCED
Joshua Davis: has been called "the best web designer in the world"
He is one of the first examples of an artist who has adopted the tenets of the open source movement favoured by the software movement. Opensource has revolutionised the way we view ownership of content on the Internet. It allows for the sharing rather than the monopolisation of ideas. Davis' Flash animation design techniques are online and accessible allowing other artists to learn from his efforts and ultimately progress their own ideas.
He runs - http://www.praystation.com a one-man research and development web-site. Its objective is "to apply design and technology into a collection of small, sometimes daily, modules - is incubating a lifestyle, a mentality, living with anomalies (1 : deviation from the common rule : IRREGULARITY; 2 : something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified), producing work in a world that is under constant flux and change."
Other projects include:
http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com http://www.dreamless.org/ http://www.antiweb-chaos.com
When not working on his five websites, Davis works as senior design technologist at Kioken--the Manhattan web design company that made waves on CNN last spring for "firing" Sony as a client.
Seating is limited so early registration is essential.  To register e-mail events at darklight-filmfestival.com with register as the subject.