[Basekamp Events] Free Art License - Jun 15 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

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June 15, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations  
and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with Antoine Moreau about “Free Art  
License”.

http://artlibre.org/archives/textes/133
http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en

Free Art Licence (or FAL) is a contract that applies the “copyleft”  
concept to artistic creation of all kinds, without formal or aesthetic  
discrimination of any kind. If you or your artworld call it art, you can  
protect it under FAL by making it free. The License authorizes a third party  
(a person or legal entity) to proceed to copy, disseminate, transform and use  
work on the express condition that it always be possible for others to copy,  
disseminate and transform it in turn. That is, what is free must remain free,  
copyleft cannot be copyrighted.

Far from running roughshod over authors’ rights, the Free Art License  
acknowledges and protects them. It allows anyone to make creative use of  
ideas and forms, regardless of genre, medium, form or content. Strict respect  
for authors’ rights has often tended to restrict access to works of the  
mind; FAL, however, fosters access, the being point to authorize use of a  
work’s resources; to create new conditions of creation so as to extend and  
amplify the possibilities of creation.

The License was drafted in Paris in July 2000, following a series of meetings  
of the group Copyleft Attitude by lawyers Mélanie Clément-Fontaine and  
David Geraud, and artists Isabelle Vodjdani and Antoine Moreau. The Licence  
is legally binding without modification in all countries having signed the  
Bern Convention, which established the international legal norms regarding  
intellectual and artistic “property”. Copyleft Attitude, which devised  
the license, has always sought to extend the whole notion of copyleft to the  
realm of the arts and beyond. To draw inspiration from the free and open  
software movement and to adapt the model — and indeed whole way of life —  
to creation beyond software, leading to establishing the Free Art License.

The License is suitable for all types of non-software creation. It is  
recommended by the Free Software Foundation in the following terms: “We  
don’t take the position that artistic or entertainment works must be free,  
but if you want to make one free, we recommend the Free Art License.”

See you all then!

Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename:  
‘basekamp’
If you come to the potluck chat in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
Basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia usa

NOTE: All Skype “Join” links are /still/ broken. In the meantime, to join  
this week’s Potluck Chat:

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 * We’ll add you to the text chat, and when everyone is ready we’ll start
   the conference call


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http://basekamp.com/about/events/free-art-license#comments [1]

/Plausible Artworlds is a project organized by Basekamp and Stephen Wright,  
and has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the  
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative./


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