Rasmus Fleischer
Rasmus Fleischer (born 19 April 1978 in Halmstad) is a Swedish historian, musician, freelance journalist and debater. He is currently working as a Ph.D. student at the department of contemporary history at Södertörn University College in southern Stockholm.[1]
In 2003, he was one of the founders of Piratbyrån, the anti-copyright organization that, in turn, once founded BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay. Since then he has been lecturing extensively, on subjects related to "the collapse of copyright" and the future of music, at various European conferences addressing art and/or new media.[2][3][4][5][6]
Parts of an interview with Fleischer commenting on copyright are featured in Steal This Film.
During January and February 2008, he stayed as an artist in residence in Vienna, invited by Tranforming Freedom,[7] an audio archiving platform based in the Viennese Museumsquartier to live there while doing mainly theoretical and conceptual work.[8]
When the Swedish engineering weekly Ny Teknik in September 2006 ranked the fifty most influential persons in Swedish IT-industry, he ended up as seventh on the list.[9]
Rasmus Fleischer has also studied at the Royal College of Music and, amongst other musical activities, interpreted medieval music in the ensemble Vox Vulgaris.[10]
In September 2009, Rasmus Fleischer's first book Det postdigitala manifestet was published by Ink, as the first book in a series of manifestos. It is an essay, written in 47 paragraphs of varying length, about the contemporary culture of digital abundance and how that produces a re-valuation of physical presence, inspired by philosophers like Spinoza and taking exemples mainly from the area of music.[11] [12]
Writings
- The future of copyright, essay published by the Cato Institute in June 2008
Notes
- ^ OutsideS
- ^ Between artworks and networks: Navigating through the crisis of copyright « Copyriot
- ^ Piratbyran’s speech at Reboot « Copyriot
- ^ ::: Piratbyrån :::
- ^ The Oil of the 21st Century. Conference
- ^ Copyriot » Some notes on General Rights Management
- ^ 2008-02-12. "How to own sound? The strange history of music copyright - Rasmus Fleischer (SE)". Transforming Freedom News. Transforming Freedom. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
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- ^ Template:Sv icon "Mäktigast i it-Sverige 2006 - hela listan". Ny Teknik. 2006-09-19. Retrieved 2007-02-11.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Vox Vulgaris – Music at Last.fm
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
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