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 is an organization credited with producing the Steal This Film documentary series.
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.
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.
ReadThe 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.
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.
ReadFrequently 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.
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.
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