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Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net Editorial content | PTBF

Submitted by admin on Monday, 23 November, 2009 - 22:03

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Trouble on the High Seas News & Analysis

Submitted by Mavis on Sunday, 21 June, 2009 - 15:10

ByJohan Söderberg

analysis of the anti-politics of the Pirate Party. reposted from nettime.

With 215,000 votes in the European election from the Swedish precinct, the Internet pirates have winds in their sailes. Miltos asked in a previos posting on this list if similar parties will now spawn in other EU electorates. In the ligth of his question, it can be interesting to note that the two major events which angered people in Sweden to point that they casted their votes for the Pirate Party (PP), had only scantly to do with EU intellectual property directives.

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Turning Software Inside Out Editorial content | Articles

Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 17 February, 2009 - 16:13

ByTony D. Sampson

As our familiarity with software deepens, the question of its cultural understanding looms. Here Tony Sampson reviews FLOSS+Art and Software Studies: A Lexicon, two recent books which attempt to open up the black box to a wider audience

subject: Commons | Free Software | Intellectual Property | Net Art | New Media Art

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Australia's resale Part 2 - Arts Industry tells Arts Minister Garrett - "Take a cold shower, Pete!!" News & Analysis

Submitted by Bob Gosford on Sunday, 30 November, 2008 - 23:44

ByBob Gosford, The Northern Myth, Yuendumu, Australia

Re printed from Bob Gosford's Australian Crikey blog, The Northern Myth (http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/)

Federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett’s proposed resale royalty for visual artworks has been labelled a “disaster for Australian artists” by the body that administers visual arts copyright and licenses.

subject: Cultural Industries | Intellectual Property | Law

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European Parliament rushes towards Soviet Internet OpenPublishing | News & Analysis

Submitted by ewelke on Thursday, 10 July, 2008 - 13:27

ByFFII

There has been a recent public outrage over anti-piracy lobbyist amendments to a European Parliament Telecom reform bill. The amendments would both implement a 'three-strikes' rule, which would cut off internet access for anyone suspected of illegal file-sharing, as well as giving government control to which internet software and services could be 'lawfully' used. On 7 July 2008, in Brussels, politicians voted in favour of the addition of these amendments to the Telecom law which will be voted on in September.

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Free Software Editorial content | Public Library

Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 - 15:31

ByToni Prug

                               Free Software
                         Toni Prug, toni@irational.org
                                August 13, 2007

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What if China Steals Modern Art? OpenPublishing | News & Analysis

Submitted by Ben on Friday, 18 January, 2008 - 01:04

ByBelle Le Triste

Reposting this bloated commentary on recent art market trends by a pungently named French art writer.
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subject: Art | Business | Finance & Trade | Intellectual Property

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Irony 2.0 Editorial content | Articles

Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 11 December, 2007 - 13:45

ByPil and Galia Kollectiv

Ironic distance is ambiguous. It grounds both critique and detached resignation to the status quo. What becomes of it in the viral world of web 2.0?, ask Pil and Galia Kollectiv

In 1951, in his film Traité de Bave et d'Éternité, Isidore Isou announced:

subject: Blogging | Intellectual Property | Internet | Mute Vol 2 #7 | Web 2.0

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Recomposing the University -
By Tiziana Terranova & Marc Bousquet
July 2004

Far removed from the clichéd image of the ‘ivory tower’, today’s universities have been opened to the harsh realities of neoliberal economics. In the name of democratisation and equality, the university has become a cross between a supermarket and a factory whose consumers are also its hyper-exploited labour force. But the conditions of mass intellectuality also create new potentials and alliances

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