Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig

Lecture/Discussion
3pm-5pm

Wireside chat w/ Lawrence Lessig on fair use and politics.This lecture will be live streamed to W2 Culture+Media House from the Harvard School of Law in Cambridge.

Prof. Lessig will speak about copyright in a digital age, and the role (and importance) of a doctrine like “fair use.” Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video.

As a medium, online video will be most powerful when it is fluid, like a conversation. Like the rest of the internet, online video must be designed to encourage participation, not just passive consumption.

Lessig's 45-minute lecture will be a followed up with moderated discussions & Q & A period. Viewers will be encouraged to submit questions via twitter using the hashtag #wireside.

Martha Rans from Creative Commons Canada will introduce the lecture and share takes on participatory media culture and the changing nature of content ownership and usage in the Digital Age.

Jean Hebert | PhD Candidate, School of Communication, Simon Fraser Univerity | will moderate an in-house discussion from 4:30-5pm.

ADMISSION IS BY DONATION.

5pm-7pm

Public Cinq a Sept courtesy of Bell Canada w/DJ Peabody & VJ Patricia Kim

http://www.meiotic.ca/djpeabody/
http://www.youtube.com/patriciakimfilms


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This event is part of W2 Culture+Media House's February 25th programming exploring the Free Culture Movement. Be sure to check out "RIP: A Remix for the People": an interactive event starting @8:30pm the same day.

Join a Collective of local DJs, VJs, artists, and CyberPunks for an open-source sensory mash up! This collaborative project highlights the strong network of community-minded performers in Vancouver's music scene.

► Film Screening: RIP: A Remix Manifesto @ 8:30pm [http://nfb.ca/rip]

► Music: 10pm to LATE

The W2 Webcast team will be streaming this event online, so be sure to drop by the W2 interview booth to give us your thoughts on everything that is REMIX CULTURE. Our edit team will be compiling the footage to create a short video blog-- so your insightful commentary and saucy dance moves can stream across cyberspace into eternity...

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