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The Currency of the Commons – The Price and Value of Free Culture

Start:
05.02.2011 - 15:00
End:
05.02.2011 - 17:00
Festival location:
hkw, k1
Event type:
talk

In recent years, the free culture movement has been very much focused on the development of alternative rights and licensing systems. The development of appropriate economic benchmarks outside traditional business models are only now starting to gain traction: crowdsourcing, micro-funding and shared economy – these are the new watchwords of a society that no longer wants to rely solely on capitalist principles. In this context, however, there are many questions – how to convert ‘free’ cultural services into an economic currency, for example, or how a long-term culture of worth that is based on free access rather than supply and demand can be achieved.

Participants: 
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Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, a Berlin-based Swedish IT spokesperson, works on...
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Elizabeth Stark is a leader in the global free culture movement, Visiting...
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Dmytri Kleiner is a Canadian artist, living and working in...
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Eric Poettschacher lead a consultancy for over 15 years dedicated to...
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Christopher 'moot' Poole is the founder of 4chan, an image-based bulletin...
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