Um debate ainda desconhecido no Brasil opõe o ministro e compositor Gilberto Gil à sua gravadora, a Warner. A disputa envolve algo muito mais importante que cifras em contratos. Gil participa do esforço para levar adiante a Creative Commons, uma rede mundial de autores que buscam alternativas para viver de suas obras, sem transformá-las em exclusividade da indústria cultural. Lawrence Lessig, professor de Direito da Universidade de Stanford e um dos %u201Cpais%u201D da Creative Commons, descreveu a polêmica num artigo para o jornal norte-americano Chicago Tribune.
Could you give me a quick overview of the goals of this project?
It started as an experiment to see if our search could be used on e-mail. And in fact, it was originally applied to my e-mail. I get a lot of e-mail%u2014I have many gigabytes of it, and it's hard to manage. I have all the same challenges as everybody out there, and I found that having effective search, having large storage, having the kind of threading that we've done here%u2014all those things make me more efficient with my e-mail. And that's what I then decided that we should make available to the entire world.
(...) weblog tools as personal content management systems. When thought about in this way the weblog becomes more than just a place to write stuff. The tool can link the weblogger and his/her audience to interesting data sources in a more personalized way than through generic access points.
In a high-energy context this conference will bring together artists, designers, musicians, activists, art historians and engineers in formats such as workshops, open mic, parties, performances, interviews, and brain storming sessions — all aiming at ongoing collaborations, genuine dialogue, and the exchange of knowledge. The aim of the conference is to get a deeper understanding of the dynamics of collaboration, models of critical web-based art, and the role media technologies play in the making of social networks. Laugh, learn, argue, dance, discuss, eat, celebrate dissent, make new friends, and meet future collaborators.