'The Limits of Intellectual Property' @ 2008 Ars Electronica Festival

Under the banner of “A New Cultural Economy – The Limits of Intellectual Property” the 2008 festival aims to co-author the preamble to a new open knowledge-based society. [09/06/08]

Here comes the 2008 edition of an important event, Ars Electronica Festival. A potpourri of symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions that "will transcend the confines of conventional conference spaces and cultural venues and pervade the entire city."

What’s at stake: the interplay of freedom of information and copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities and the vision of an open knowledge-based society. And this is also a matter of practical, workable regulations governing this new reality, rules whose formulation ought not to be left up to lawyers and MBAs alone.

Among its many events within the event, the A New Cultural Economy Symposium will address such issues as the development of mass media and a commoditization of media, and the shifting of notion of property as the anchor and pillar for the creation of value.

With a rich and diversified program, the 2008 Ars Electronica Symposium is curated by Joichi Ito, activist, entrepreneur, and CEO of Creative Commons.