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ASIAN
EDITION
A Conference on Media Piracy and
Intellectual Property in
South East Asia
Sponsored
by the Goethe Institute, Manila, and the UP Film
Institute
Date:
November 24, 2006, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, UP Film
Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Metro
Manila, CMC Auditorium, Plaridel Hall
TEXTS
Tilman Baumgärtel: The
Culture of Piracy in the Philippines (pdf)
Tilman Baumgärtel:
Piracy in den Philippinen (not yet published article for German weekly
Die Zeit - in German)
Ravi
Sundaram: Recycling electronic modernity
Terry
Gilliam: Studios are the real Pirates
Jonas Baes: Towards a political economy of
the "real": music piracy and the Philippine cultural imaginary
Peter K. Yu: From Pirates to Partners:
Protecting Intellectual Property in China in the Twenty-First Century
Information wants to be free - but this is
ridiculous
Wired, Issue 3.10, Oct 1995
Shujen Wang / Jonathan Zhu: Mapping Piracy
in China
Theory, Culture, and Society
20 (4):97–125
ARTICLES IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS OF THE PHILIPPINES
DVD pirates paid off by film fest producers
Inquirer, Feb 17, 2006
Anti-piracy campaign nets P1B in counterfeit
products
Inquirer, Oct 17, 2005
Eric S. Caruncho: Flipside - Cinema
Paradiso,
Planet Philippines, Aug. 1st 2004
War
on piracy continues warns OMB head Manzano
Inquirer, Jun. 24, 2004
Booting out the bootlegers
Dispatches, JULY - OCTOBER 2002, VOL. VIII NO. 3
VARIOUS LINKS
INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
ALLIANCE, 2005 SPECIAL 301 REPORT: PHILIPPINES
Darknet
A site and blog accompanying J.D. Lascis remarkable book of the same
title.
Contested
Commons
The site and the comprehensive proceedings of a conference I wish I had
attended at the Sarai Center in New Delhi.
Pirate Bay
The
"world´s largest
BitTorrent tracker" is run by a group of hackers, that have formed a
political party that is currently running for seats in the Swedish
parlament.
Kingdom of Piracy
Website of a media art exhibition in Taiwan that never happened because
of its controversial subject matter.
Goethe
Institut Manila
Website of the Goethe Institut for the conference
DRM
Workshop at The Wyndham City Center Washington
Find the legendary "White Paper" from Microsoft on "Darknets" here.
Crappy Bootleg Covers
A hilarious site with covers of pirated DVDs at Flickr
Pirate
Utopias - Under the banner of King Death
An interesting article from anarchist magazine "Do or Die" on the
historical pirates and the relative freedom that the bucaneers enjoyed
Pirate Utopias
An excerpt from Peter Lamborn Wilson´s book "Temporary
Autonomous
Zones" on piracy as a site of utopianism and egalitarianism
Arr, matey: Pirates and piracy in the movies
A film program at the Pacific Film Archives
Dive
An introduction to the open software and copyleft culture
Conference on Piracy and Intellectual Property
A Conference at the Goethe Institute in Hongkong on the same subject
matter
BOOKS
Alford, William P. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offence: Intellectual
Property Law in Chinese Civilization. Stanford University Press, 1995.
Lascia, J.D. Darknet: Hollywood´s War against the Digital
Generation. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2005
Lessig, Lawrence. Free culture. How big media uses technology and the
law to lock down culture and control creativity. New York: The Penguin
Press, 2004
Available online at: http://free-culture.org/get-it
Naim, Moisés. Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and
Copycats
are hijacking the Global Economy. London: William Heinemann, 2005
Pang, Laikwan. Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia: Copyright,
Piracy and Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2006
Phillips, Tim. Knock-Off: The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods. The
true story of the world´s fastest growing crime wave. London:
Kogan Page, 2005
Sarai Media Lab. Contested Commons / Trespassing Publics. A Public
Record. Delhi: Sarai Media Lab, 2006 (available online at http://www.sarai.net/events/ip_conf/)
