Welcome to the homepage for the Culture, Creativity, Copyright network. Please click here for an extensive description of this research project in pdf-format (updated the 20th of April 2008)! Click here and here for two pages of a short flyer on the CCC network.
Goals
File sharing, peer-to-peer, Open Access, Creative Commons, Piratbyrån and Anti-Piratbyrån; any given day media overflows with references to these and similar phenomena. Today, digitization revolutionizes the production of literature as well as science. New forms of collaboration emerge in Internet-based fan communities as well as in the Arts, Sciences, and the Humanities. Challenging traditional notions of what it means to be a creator as well as a user, legislation lags behind. Stakeholders representing cultural heritage institutions, individual artists, scientists, and scholars note with great concern that we need, not the overstretched and counterproductive intellectual property system that we seem to be moving towards with alarming speed, but a sustainable balance between the rights of creators and the rights of users—at least if we want to ensure the continued production of cultural heritage and new innovations. CCC represents an initiative to address these current and complex issues from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. The project is profoundly international in outlook and various activities during 2007-08 focus on strengthening this aspect even further.
Conference "Using Fairly" in September 2007
Please click here for the programme of conference! "Using Fairly: The International One-Day Conference on Creativity and Copyright" confronted the issues on the accessability of innovation stated above.
Other activities
Two kick-off get-togethers were arranged this spring, one gathering Uppsala university participants (5th of February 2007), the other meeting intended for the broader field (19th of March 2007). Activities planned for Spring 2008 include one or two seminars. Watch this space for updates!
Contact
For more information please contact Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (home page) or Jan von Bonsdorff (home page)