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Opening Speeches Authorship & Culture Brazil, the Free Culture Nation Keynote: The Read-Write Society Netlabels: Niche, Long Tail, Blueprint? Art & Copyright Quality Management in Free Content Economy & Labour Information Freedom Rules Business and the Commons Paris Accord: Composers, Performers and the Public Open Source Biotechnology Rules & Tools of Freedom EU Copyright Directive, Review and Implementation The Future of Free Software Open APIs Freedom Expanded Open Spectrum Closing Ceremony grabbed from video by wos stream team Business and the Commons Friday, 15 September 2006, 17:00, Columbia Club Since digitisation of works and channels turns information into a truely public good, business models have to be radically different. How to make money with free bits is the core question driving not only the Web 2.0 hype. Is it feasible at all to market works without any copyright enforcement? Nollywood proves that it is. The Nigerian film industry has become the third largest after Hollywood and Bollywood. How can creative people and consumers strike a fair deal without intermediaries? What if they organise as two collectives that conclude a general contract among each other? If bits, once published, can‘t be controlled, then maybe the work they encode should be paid before it gets released. The Street Performer Protocol triggered a number of systems that aim at buying works so that they can be free. Chair: Ronaldo Lemos Director Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) & Project Lead Creative Commons Brazil & openbusiness.cc, Rio de Janeiro Danny Bruder p-pack & copycan.org; Musician and Producer, Activist, Author and Neoist; Press Officer of the c-base, Berlin Roland Alton-Scheidl PUBLIC VOICE Lab & Project Lead RegisteredCommons.org, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences Abstract Laurent Kratz CEO Jamendo, Luxembourg

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