Free Culture Forum and new models for a sustainable creativity
During the talk I will introduce the work carried out by the FCF and engage in some of the debates that have taken place in this arena. I will focus on the idea of cultural commons and how the creative industries have tended to use this pool of common knowledge as a resource that doesn’t need to be cared off or looked after. I will look into business and social forms of organization aimed at producing culture acknowledging social production and the creative basins that lie at the centre of cultural development. After all it is our responsibility, as civil society, to oppose practices that plunder this common heritage and to block its future development. We need to defend and expand the sphere in which human creativity and knowledge can prosper freely and sustainably.
by Jaron Rowan, June 30th at 19:30, Track I
Jaron Rowan is a cultural producer and researcher, I am one of the founding members of YProductions (www.ypsite.net) and I am also member of La-Ex (http://la-ex.net/) a platform specialized in helping citizens against abuses of royalties management societies and cultural industries lobbies. I was one of the coordinators of 2010 Free Culture Forum (http://fcforum.net/es) and co-drafted and co-edited the “Sustainable Models for Creativity in the Digital Age” document. I have recently published the book “Emprendizajes en Cultura” (Traficantes de Sueños, 2010) a research into the discourses and problems derived from the implementation of cultural entrepreneurship programs in Spain.
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