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The Free Culture Forum (FCForum) is an international encounter of civic society actors on free culture, digital rights and access to knowledge. It took place in Barcelona for the first time from October 30 to November 1, 2009 and second time from the 28th to the 31st of October 2010. It took place jointly with the oXcars, a free culture festival.

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[edit] What is the Fcforum

The Fcforum is a major international meeting of the most relevant organizations and individuals working on the international scene, who are engaged in reflecting on the social and economic challenges of the dissemination of culture and knowledge in the digital age.

[edit] FCForum 2009

The main objectives of the Forum 2009 were, on the one hand, building networks to optimize the efforts of the different groups and setting common demands against the proposals from industry and governments in their eagerness to control culture and information; and on the other hand reinforcing the self-organization of tools and infrastructures to support free culture[1]. The first edition of the Forum was organised by eXgae (now La-EX), Simona Levi, Mayo Fuster Morell, Networked politics and the Free Knowledge Institute. The Forum 2009 ended up with the definition of the Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge. The Charter has been disseminated and implemented worldwide, including the 26th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin[2] and the Free Culture X Conference[3].

Official observers from the European Community's Commission for Culture and Education (Valerie Panis), the European Community's Commission for Consumer Protection (Katrine Thomsen) and Government of Brazil (through its Department of Digital Culture) (José Murilo) were present.

[edit] Main thematics of the Fcforum 2009

The working program was on five working lines:

  • Education and Access to Knowledge
  • Organizational Logic and Political Implications of Free Culture
  • Free Software and Open Standards: Knowledge Sharing Hacker Philosophy and Action Technical Ware
  • Economies, New P2p Models and Sustainable Distribution
  • Legal Perspectives and User Access

[edit] List of participants Fcforum 2009

  • Economies, New P2P models and sustainable distribution: Jeremy Rifkin (Videoconference), John Howkins, P2P Foundation / Michel Bauwens, Koleman Strumpf (Videoconference), Joost Smiers, Dmytri Kleiner, Safe Creative, Traficantes de Sueños, Platoniq, Yproductions. Moderators: Elena Fraj (La-EX), Olivier Schulbaum (Platoniq), Ignacio Castro.
  • Organizational Logic and Political Implications of Free Culture: David Bollier, Hilary Wainwright, Felix Stalder, David Evan Harris, Jamie King, Networked Politics / Mayo Fuster, Vittorio Bertola, Joan Subirats, Marco Berlinguer, Exit. Moderators: Mayo Fuster Morell (Networked Politics)

[edit] FCForum 2010

The second FCForum was held in Barcelona from October 28 to 31, 2010 and focused on economical models. It was organised by La-EX, Simona Levi, Mayo Fuster Morell and Yproductions, and the advise of Felix Stalder. It resulted on a Declaration and How to Manual on sostenibility of creativity on the digital era. The declaration was signed by more than 80 organizations and personalities of the free culture scene, such as Richard Stallman.

[edit] Topics

Participants in the FCForum split into working groups focusing on the following topics:

  1. Economic Sustainability and Governance of Open Online Collaboration
  2. New models of sustainability for the creative sector
  3. Tools for politiy reformers
  4. Open public sector information

[edit] Sustainable models for creativity in the digital age

In February 2011, two documents drafted by FCForum participants were released: Sustainable Models for Creativity and the How-To Manual for Sustainable creativity, addressed at political reformers, citizens and free culture activists. Both documents are based on an understanding that current royalties management and cultural distribution systems have become obsolete in the digital age, and the conviction that free software and peer production and distribution is not incompatible with market strategies and commercial distribution. The How-To Manual sets out a series of alternative commercial and non-profit models. It insists that the Internet must remain free and open in order to allow online collaboration models to develop, and it must be recognised as a tool that promotes contact between creators and the public. The manual offers an overview of new models that are already operating in a variety of fields, such as freemium, crowdfunding and micropayment systems in which users make small financial contributions to projects that are looking for seed funding through platforms such as Kickstarter and lanzanos.com or to existing initiatives that are given money depending on the number of users who vote for them (such as Flattr, created by Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson). It also claims that the creators of commercial cooperative platforms should share their profits with the creators of the content they publish.

[edit] FCForum 2011

The third annual FCForum was held in Barcelona on October 29 and 30, 2011. Under the title “Networks for a R-evolution”, the FcForum2011 was split into two core areas:

1. Sustainable models for creativity in the digital era This section included a panel on film supply and distribution on the Internet, with the participation of Álex de la Iglesia, Juan Carlos Tous, Amparo Peiró, Euduald Doménech and Josep Jover. Other participants included Yproducciones, Kayros Transmedia, Daniel Granados, Kolector, Flattr, Goteo and Verkami, who explored a series of sustainable alternatives for creation.

2. Challenges and tools for the defense of the Internet and of sharing This section began by focusing on the current situation of the Net in the global framework, with La Quadrature du Net, Geraldine Juárez and John Perry Barlow, followed by #Redada, with David Bravo, Hacktivistas and Antonio Delgado.

This second section was deeply influenced by the centrality of the #15M movement in regards to tools for communication, self-organisation and defence, in the framework of #globalrevolution. It focused on projects by Lorea such as n-1, infrastructures for online self-organisation, which are crucial to digital autonomy.

Then came a panel on hacker strategies and tools that allow a qualitative leap in collective, communicative activities, with presentations of projects such as Kune, Alabs and 15hack. This session was rounded off with a presentation by Richard Stallman.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Free Culture Forum Barcelona, Oct 29-Nov 1, by Cory Doctorow.
  2. ^ Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge workshop in the 26C3
  3. ^ Notes for the FCX Workshop: Charter for Innovation, Creativity and A2K

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