“Art, Access & Action: The Moral Imperative?” (A Major Arts & Media Summit in Chicago)

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:23:28 +0000

Welcome.

This year a bunch of groups, organizations, and individuals will be coming together to host a major arts & media summit in Chicago. The Summit will be held at Columbia College Chicago and happen on April 8th and 9th from 10 am to 9 pm on both days.

Here is a list of organizations and individuals involved:

PEOPLE

Jeff Biggers, author of “Reckoning at Eagle Creek”

Elisa Kriesinger, PoliticalRemixVideo.com

Patrick Lichty, member of the Yes Men/Columbia College instructor

Kari Lydersen, In These Times contributing editor

Salim Muwakkil, In These Times senior editor & WVON personality

Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films

Tracy Van Slyke, Media Consortium

Jeff Spitz, Groundswell Films

Paul Street, frequent contributor to ZMag

World’s Fair Use Day

Belinda Rawlins — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:31:30 +0000

World’s Fair Use Day (WFUD) is a free, all-day celebration of the doctrine of fair use: the legal right that allows innovators and creators to make particular uses of copyrighted materials. WFUD will take place at the Newseum in Washington D.C. on Tuesday January 12, 2010, and will be organized by Public Knowledge (PK), a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, consumer-advocacy group. PK works to ensure that communications and intellectual property policies encourage creativity, further free expression and discourse and provide universal access to knowledge. As part of its campaign to return balance to copyright law, PK hopes to use WFUD to educate the public about the importance of fair use in an information society.

WFUD will be widely attended and will provide attendees with a unique opportunity to network with policymakers, artists, academics, business innovators, media professionals, press, and consumer advocates.

Transmission Project - fair use

“Art, Access & Action: The Moral Imperative?” (A Major Arts & Media Summit in Chicago)

World’s Fair Use Day