Geistiges Eigentum
KEIN talk: Piracy
Lawrence Liang, Sebastian Luetgert, Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran in conversation about pirate cinemas, distributed archives, peer-to-peer film studies and the post-copyright futures of cinema.
Steal This Film - Part 1
Gezeigt wird die illegale Beschlagnahmung der Filesharing-Server der Pirate Bay. Die Aktion wurde durch Druck der US-Regierung auf den schwedischen Staat ausgelöst, unter Androhung von Sanktionen durch die WTO (Welthandelsorganisation). Nach 24 Stunden waren die Datenpiraten wieder online.
Eine Frage der Menschlichkeit
Aus der Perspektive von Menschen mit HIV in Indien und Deutschland wird AIDS als politisches Problem fokussiert. Gezeigt werden u.a. die jüngsten Entwicklungen in Indien, wo sich Betroffene für bezahlbare Medikamente einsetzen: ein Beispiel des Kampfes gegen das WTO-Abkommen zu Geistigem Eigentum (TRIPS) und dessen fatale Auswirkungen.
Steal This Film - Part 2
These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the 'battles' between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won. We know who the victors are. Why then say any more?
Because waves of repression continue to come: lawsuits are still levied against innocent people; arrests are still made on flimsy pretexts, in order to terrify and confuse; harsh laws are still enacted against filesharing, taking their place in the gradual erosion of our privacy and the bolstering of the surveillance state. All of this is intended to destroy or delay inexorable changes in what it means to create and exchange our creations. If STEAL THIS FILM II proves at all useful in bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think 'after intellectual property', think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity, we have achieved our main goal.
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