Industrias criativas e software livre

Nas próximas duas semanas o G-Popai estará recebendo dois pesquisadores estrangeiros para palestras na EACH-USP Leste. A primeira palestra, na próxima 3a feira, dia 10, será com Volker Grassmuck, discutindo a ascenção das novas indústrias criativas. Na quinta-feira da semana seguinte (dia 19), a palestra será com Gabriella Coleman, discutindo a ascenção do software livre e a formação de uma consciência legal na comunidade hacker. As palestras serão em inglês. Não haverá tradução.

Creative Industries, Palestra com Volker Grassmuck, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Terça-feira, 10 de junho, 14 horas Auditório Vermelho - EACH

The discourse on a new phase of capitalism originated in the U.K. and now dominates politics in Germany and the EU. It is defined as "those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property.“ (DCMS Creative Industries Task Force, October 1998.) For the workshop I will give a brief overview on the official creative industry politics incl.
the massive amounts of public money being mobilised by it. And I will present a critical evaluation of it: 1. as a socialisation of the costs of developing the individual resources for private exploitation. 2. a strategy for cutting down on public spending for culture and restricting competition by the commons of connective creativity. 3. positing the precarious labour of artists and web-workers as role-model for work in the 21st century in general. 4. mobilising "free labour" (modding in games, Web 2.0 etc.) for corporate interests.

The Ironic Rise of Free and Open Source Software and the Making of a Hacker Legal Consciousness, Palestra com Gabriella Coleman, New York University Quinta-feira, dia 19 de junho, 14 horas Anfiteatro 3 (bloco didático) - EACH

In the span of just two decades, free software hackers and enthusiasts successfully secured a domain of legal autonomy for software production during an era of such unprecedented transformations in intellectual property law that critics describe them with ominous terms like the “second enclosure movement” and “information feudalism”. Not only did this movement first arise and consolidate while largely unaware that it was in the midst of this second enclosure movement, but it also survived and flourished, only later to cultivate an accentuated consciousness of the legal transformations driving these enclosures. This dynamic should make us pause to reassess and reappraise the historical relationship between these two countervailing legal trends in the digital era. This chapter addresses this relationship by presenting these trends as two related but initially independent historical trajectories that over the last decade have become intimately intertwined. The first trajectory pertains to free software's maturity into a global techno-social movement and the second turns to the globalization of intellectual property provisions that led to the types of enclosures so famously covered and critiqued in the work of a host of legal thinkers.