[ecrea] Symposium - Media Piracy: the politics and practices of borrowing

Media Piracy: the politics and practices of borrowing

Keynotes: Lawrence Liang (Alternative Law Forum)
                Dr Anne Barron (London School of Economics)

A one-day symposium hosted by the AHRC Network project ‘Bazaar Cinema: 
Re-purposing Media and debating cultural rights of Youth Communities in 
London and Mumbai’

Queen Mary University of London, Arts 1 Mile End Road campus
Tuesday June 17th, 2014

The symposium is free and open to all.

With keynote presentations from Lawrence Liang and Anne Barron ‘Media 
Piracy: the politics and practices of borrowing’ takes a fresh look at 
what Ravi Sundaram has called “cultures of the copy”. Whilst government 
agencies and media industries are variously trying to freeze or extract 
value from emergent cultures of media piracy across postcolonial, 
industrial, and political-economic contexts, there are broader interests 
at stake. This symposium explores what frameworks can help the different 
communities of media creators, digital activists, hackers, researchers 
and everyday tinkerers move beyond the moralism of copyright and toward 
the pragmatic considerations of creating a contextual movement for a 
vibrant and participatory digital commons. Alongside keynote 
presentations will be host of international speakers, a roundtable 
discussion of industry expert practitioners and a screening of Naata 
(The Bond) with a Q&A with the directors, Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jaya
sankar (TATA Institute of Social Sciences).

Schedule for the day

9.30-10.00    Welcome and registration (coffee and tea)

10.00-11.00    Keynote 1: Lawrence Liang - The work of Love in the age 
of Mechanical reproduction: Piracy, Cinephilia, and the redistribution 
of potential.

11.00-12.30    Panel 1 - Chair: Virginia Crisp
Miguel Afonso Caetano (University Institute of Lisbon) - P2P Culture: A 
comparative sociological analysis of sites and networks for the online 
sharing of music, movies and ebooks in Portugal and Brazil.
Melanie Dulong de Rosnay (London School of Economics) - Academic 
torrents, peer production networks to enable access to research.
Alexandra Kapka (University of Ulster) - How did the censorship and 
digital piracy of A Serbian Film affect interpretations of Serbian 
national identity in the U.K.?


~ 12.30 – 1.30 Lunch ~


1.30– 2.30    Keynote 2: Anne Barron – Property, Publicity and Piracy

2.30– 4.00    Panel 2 - Chair: Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
Virginia Crisp (Middlesex University) - Pirates and Proprietary Rights: 
Perceptions of ‘ownership’ within filesharing communities.
Maitrayee Deka (University of Milan) - ‘Bazaar’ mode of knowledge 
production.
Nikhil Titus and Faiz Ullah (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) - 
Screening Out the Public: Cultural rights of the marginalised citizens 
in Mumbai.

4.00-4.20 Tea break

4.20-5.30    Industry Panel - Chair: Gini Simpson (Barbican Centre)
A roundtable discussion with Jon Baines (National Association of Data 
Protection Officers), Jonathan Caicedo Galindo (filmmaker), and others TBC.

6.00 – 7.30    Screening: Naata (The Bond, documentary 2003: 45 minutes. 
Directed by Anjali Monteiro, K.P.Jayasankar). The screening will be 
followed by a discussion with the directors.

Venue: Hitchcock Cinema


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