Copyright, Copyleft, Copycenter: Can Copyright and Remix Culture Co-Exist?
Presenters
- Patricia Aufderheide
University Professor, American University
Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and director of the Center for Social Media there. She is co-author, with Peter Jaszi, of Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007), The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and Communications Policy in the Public Interest (Guilford Press, 1999). She heads the Fair Use and Free Speech research project at the Center, in conjunction with Professor Jaszi.
She has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards, including career achievement awards in 2010 from Women in Film and Video (D.C.), in 2008 from the International Digital Media and Arts Association, and in 2006 from the International Documentary Association. Aufderheide serves on the board of directors of Kartemquin Films, and has served on the board of directors of the Independent Television Service, which produces innovative television programming for underserved audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- Byron Hurt
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Byron Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, a published writer, and an anti-sexist activist. His most recent documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. It was later broadcast nationally on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens, drawing an audience of more than 1.3 million viewers. To date, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes has been selected to appear in more than 80 film festivals worldwide and was named by the Chicago Tribune as “one of the best documentary films in 2007.” Since 1993, Hurt has been using his craft, his voice and his writings to broaden and deepen how people think about race and gender. His first film, I AM A MAN: Black Masculinity in America, is an award-winning documentary that captures the thoughts and feelings of African-American men and women from more than 15 cities across the country. As an activist, Hurt was also a founding member of the Mentors in Violence Prevention program, the leading college-based rape and domestic violence prevention initiative for college and professional athletics. Hurt is also the former associate director of the first gender violence prevention program in the U.S. Marine Corps.
- Mehan Jayasuriya
Director of Outreach and New Media, Public Knowledge
Mehan Jayasuriya is the director of Outreach and New Media at Public Knowledge, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that fights for the rights of innovators, creators and Internet users. In his spare time, he works as a freelance writer and photographer, covering technology and pop music. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Stereogum, PopMatters, Thought Catalog and DCist, among other publications. He currently resides in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
- Elisa Kreisinger
Video Artist
Elisa Kreisinger is a video remix artist and Fair Use(r) subverting the carefully constructed world of corporate content to work off her massive consumption of pop-culture and reverse the psycho-social toll it takes on her sense of self. She believes that women want to see more stories about other women that don’t revolve around men and the only way to do this is to make these stories ourselves. Elisa considers herself a writer 2.0: she "writes" with video, making queer-positive and feminist political video remixes that have screened in galleries and at festivals throughout the United States and Europe.
- Art Neill
Founder, New Media Rights
Art Neill practices public interest law in the areas of intellectual property, Internet, and communications law. Art is the founder of New Media Rights (NewMediaRights.org), based in San Diego, Calif., providing pro bono legal advocacy regarding intellectual property, online publishing, and legal issues that arise with new technologies and media.
With a focus on citizen creators and innovative online services, Art provides one-to-one legal assistance daily to ensure independent media creators are protected, and understand and their rights online. Art’s work focuses on copyright law, fair use, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, liability of interactive websites which utilize extensive user generated or aggregated content, the use of Creative Commons licenses, and proprietary and open source software licenses, among other topics.
New Media Rights facilitates nonprofits and individual creators, artists, and filmmakers in collaborating and producing their own videos, podcasts, and multimedia projects, while encouraging the use of open source technologies and licenses. The use of its studio and accompanying legal resources is provided free of charge.
Prior to New Media Rights, as a an attorney with UCAN, Art achieved numerous victories and refunds for consumers, and served as counsel in cases at the California Public Utilities Commission as well as in federal court against companies such as MCI/Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, Telepacific/Mpower, and SDG&E.
Art is also a techie, musician, and an adjunct professor of law at California Western School of Law teaching a course on Social Media and the Law.
Audio
- When
- Saturday, April 9, 9:00am - 10:30am
- Where
- Waterfront 2
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- Media Makers, Culture and the Arts
Hear from creators, activists and academics who are trying to find ways to make copyright work for artists. We'll discuss topics like fair use, DMCA takedown notices and sampling. Listen to artists whose work relies on their ability to reuse and comment on existing, copyrighted materials. We'll also discuss the ways that copyright is shaping and limiting the ways that musicians, poets, authors and video artists are creating new work today. Can modern remix culture and copyright co-exist? Come watch our panel of experts as they attempt to answer that question.
