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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 digital commonsı). 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 > insidersı, 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