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Opening Speeches Authorship & Culture Brazil, the Free Culture Nation Keynote: The Read-Write Society Netlabels: Niche, Long Tail, Blueprint? Art & Copyright Quality Management in Free Content Economy & Labour Information Freedom Rules Business and the Commons Paris Accord: Composers, Performers and the Public Open Source Biotechnology Rules & Tools of Freedom EU Copyright Directive, Review and Implementation The Future of Free Software Open APIs Freedom Expanded Open Spectrum Closing Ceremony by netzpolitik.org CC BY-NC-SA Brazil, the Free Culture Nation Saturday, 16 September 2006, 20:00, Columbia Hall Brazil has emerged as the prime promoter of free culture, domestically and in international fora. „We are going to tropicalize the digital revolution." Under this motto by Brazil‘s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, the country is developing a broad range of activities for promoting digital culture. WOS 4 together with the Ministry of Culture and other Brasilian partners wants to show a representative spectrum. Starting point is a vibrant local culture. From the poor neigbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro or Belem new musical genres are touching the ears and hearts of people across the globe, via Internet without any intermediary. „Pontos de Cultura" is the master-plan of bringing 600 cultural projects across the country into the digital age. Groups working with music or video, indigenous crafts or capoeira, graffiti and circus will be equipped with multimedia hardware, free software and a budget in order to produce, document and freely share with the world their cultural expressions. WOS4 will present an overview of the works coming out of these Culture Spots. Recycled hardware and free software play a crucial role as infrastructure far beyond the Pontos. The questions here as with all of WOS is: how are we going to achieve cultural diversity and financial and cultural autonomy? Chair: Volker Grassmuck Project Lead Wizards of OS & Project Lead iRights.info & Researcher, Humboldt University, Berlin Claudio Prado Head of the Department of Digital Culture, Ministry of Culture, Brasilia Fabian Ress CEO suBa Berlin (sound urBan atlantic), Journalist & TV Producer, Berlin, Munich & Rio de Janeiro Sabrina Fidalgo Filmmaker and Screenwriter, Journalist, Munich Felipe Fonseca MetaReciclagem, São Paulo MetaReciclagem is an open network of media activists, software developers, engineers, educators and social workers that develops projects of technological appropriation for social change all around Brasil. It has evolved from a project created in a mailing list to an effective open methodology used by government and third sector projects, involving more than two hundred people and a high level of continuous collective innovation based upon the ideals of free knowledge and open collaboration. Fernanda Weiden System Administrator, Council Member of Free Software Foundation Latin America; Participant of Debian Women and Organiser of the Fórum Internacional Software Livre (FISL); Founder of Women in Free Software Project in Brazil; currently with Google, Zurich

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