The conference sounds very interesting. Will the talks be webcast or 
archived for viewing for those of us who won't be able to attend in person?

Thanks,
-Raymond

On 10/27/10 10:04 AM, Johan Oomen wrote:
> Economies of the Commons 2 - Paying the costs of making things free
>
> www.ecommons.eu
> International conference, seminar and public evening programs
>
> Conference dates: 12-13 November 2010. De Balie, Amsterdam
> Pre-conference: November 11. Hilversum (on collaboration with the Open Video
> Alliance)
>
> Economies of the Commons 2  is a critical examination of the economics of
> on-line public domain and open access resources of  information, knowledge,
> and media (the Œdigital commons¹).  The past 10 years have seen the rise of
> a variety of such open content resources attracting millions of users,
> sometimes on a daily basis. The impact of projects such as Wikipedia, Images
> of the Future, and Europeana testify to the vibrancy of the new digital
> public domain.  No longer left to the exclusive domains of digital
> Œinsiders¹, open content resources are rapidly becoming widely used and
> highly popular.
>
> While protagonists of open content praise its low-cost accessibility and
> collaborative structures, critics claim it undermines the established ³gate
> keeping² functions of authors, the academy, and professional institutions
> while lacking a reliable business model of its own. Economies  of the
> Commons 2 provides a timely and crucial analysis of sustainable economic
> models that can promote and safeguard the online public domain. We want to
> find out what the new hybrid solutions are for archiving, access and reuse
> of on-line content that can both create viable markets and serve the public
> interest in a competitive global 21st century information economy.
>
> Economies of the Commons 2 consists of an international seminar on Open
> Video hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on November
> 11 in Hilversum, a two day international conference and two public evening
> programs on November 12 and 13 at De Balie, centre for culture and politics
> in Amsterdam. The event builds upon the successful Economies of the Commons
> conference organised in April  2008.
>
> Confirmed speakers include:
>
> Charlotte Hess (Syracuse University ­ Keynote), Ben Moskowitz (Open Video
> Alliance), Simona Levi (Free Culture Forum), Bas Savenije (KB National
> library of the Netherlands), Yann Moulier Boutang (Multitudes), Peter B.
> Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Harry Verwayen (Europeana), James Boyle
> (Duke University), Jeff Ubois (DTN), Sandra Fauconnier (NIMK), Dymitri
> Kleiner (Telekommunisten), Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (Royal Library
> Denmark), Nathaniel Tkacz (University of Melbourne), a.o.
>
> Organisers:
>
> Images for the Future Consortium / Netherlands Institute for Sound and
> Vision / De Balie / Institute of Network Cultures,  University of Amsterdam.
>
> For detailed program information check our website:
>
> www.ecommons.eu