Why care about rights online?

During Arts Law Week OPEN CHANNEL had also organised the Rights Online forum drawing much from the previous years Free Screen Culture and my work with APC.au. PhD student, Seth Keen, blogged the forum. I’d prepared an introductory paper and presentation based on the APC Internet Rights Charter.

Me, myself and i… the Summit

A report on my participation at the iSummit 06, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read the full report here, or download PDF (includes extensive footnotes and photos).

Interview: Australia, where technology plays the role of spoilsport

“…despite a long-standing commitment to community broadcasting, the Australian government has yet to allocate a channel for the sector within the digital spectrum. In not doing so it turns its back on the long-standing support community broadcasters have enjoyed in Australia.” Andrew Garton – Program Director of the screen resource centre, OPEN CHANNEL.

Australia, where technology plays the role of spoilsport

Author: — (FN for APCNews)
Source: APCNews
Date: 07/06/2006
Location: DHAKA, Bangladesh

Technorati Tags: australia, communityradio, communitytv, digitalspectrum, openspectrum, openchannel

Punk Commons

The iSummit has attracted former filmmakers, television producers, lawyers, IT specialists, remix artists and amongst the many more vocations declared here, we even had a “I was once a punk rocker” in our midst. They showed us photos of themselves in dreadlocks just to prove it. A few hours later they declared, “as a punk rocker…”!

Frequency Post

Launching Frequency Post live from the studios of KunstRadio, Vienna, Sunday 23 October 2005.

Broadcast/streaming and Podcast details:

Streaming at 23:05 CET, 24 October, 7am local Australian time.
World time via: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/

Frequency Post is comprised of six generative sound works, each an investigation of radio frequency allocation as defined by the broadcasting legislations, technologies and economic pressures brought to bear on each of countries and/or regions individually commissioned sound artist/composers choose to draw inspiration from.

Project includes works by Warren Burt, Ollie Olsen, Steve Law, Pei (Taiwan) and Jin Shan (mainland China).

Common Property

A brief summary of thoughts, considerations and observations from the first day at the conference, Intellectual Property Rights, Communication, and the Public Domain in the Asia-Pacific Region. 14-17 December 2004, Brisbane, Australia. This will be presented in the final day of roundtable discussions in which I am participating.

Interview: Networker (Korea)

Interview column of the Korean magazine, Networker (No. 15)