La Ex

Platform for free culture and civil society advocacy organistion for copyleft cultural productionin Barcelona. La-Ex (formerly known as eXgea). La-Ex is also the organiser of the oXcars and the Free Culture Forum.

The League of Noble Peers

The League of Noble Peers is an organization credited with producing the Steal This Film documentary series.

• copyleft,
• public domain,
• copyright

 Sarai - The new media initiative, Delhi

Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, (CSDS) one of India?s leading research institutes with a commitment to critical and dissenting thought and a focus on critically expanding the horizons of the discourse on development, particularly with reference to South Asia.

Practices of resistance and enthusiasm in Brazil 

Motivated by the theories of Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Geert Lovink and David Garcia, Brazilian Internet users, activists and artists are, more and more, developing attractive activism and tactical media projects.

• tactical media,
• Brazil

The Disappearance of Public Space on the Net 

The Internet was started in the 1970's by the U.S. Defense Departmentas a communications tool and is now being bought out by I.B.M., M.C.I.and other megaCorporations. April, 1995 marked the closing of theNational Science Foundation's part of the internet, and signaled thebeginning of the end of the publicly funded computer networkinfrastructure.

• network cultures,
• net.activism

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From the Keyboard 

Viva La Piracy! An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe. The media industry.

• infopolitics,
• copyleft,
• public domain,
• info-activism,
• copyright,
• intellectual property

At Frontiers 

Frequently at frontiers we are asked, "Anything to declare?"

The wisest thing to do when faced with the scrutiny of a border official is to say that you have "nothing to declare", and quickly move on. Crossing borders usually entails an effort not to say too much, or at least to get by with saying very little. A degree of reticence is the mark of the wise and experienced traveller.

• no border,
• borders

Free/Libre Culture Forum Declaration 

We can no longer put off re-thinking the economic structures that have been producing, financing, and funding culture up until now. Many of the old models have become anachronistic and detrimental to civil society. The aim of this document is to promote innovative strategies capable of defending and extending the sphere in which human creativity and knowledge can prosper freely and sustainably.

• copyleft,
• precarity,
• copyright,
• free culture