December 5th-6th 2013 Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

FREE?!
A One Day Journey into the Cultures of Sharing

The New Institute, Rotterdam, Friday November 29
13.00 hrs: Free Culture Brunch Club
16.00 hrs: Public Debate
20.30 hrs: A Winter Night’s Free Culture Tale

FREE?! investigates one of the great paradoxes of our times: While the fast paced development of digital media and the Internet has made the sharing and reuse of cultural products, like movies, music, books as well as their tools of creation, extremely easy. Yet at the same time, this same technological development allows intellectual property law to increasingly enclose culture behind privileged walls, thus tightly controlling and policing its access. Meanwhile, the debate that opposes the rights of authors and file sharing has been stifled into a virtual trench warfare.

Is there a way out? FREE?! attempts to answer this question by looking at the alternative offered by the free culture movement, both exploring its potential and the obstacles it encounters.

More info: http://freeculture.info