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# Authors of the Future

**Documentation of [a studyday re-imagining Copyleft]( http://constantvzw.org/site/Authors-of-the-future-Re-imagining-Copyleft.html )** in ISELP, Brussels, 27/09/19
 
Can we invent licences that are based on collective creative practices, in which cooperation between machine and biological authors, need not be an exception? How could attribution be a form of situated genealogy, rather than accounting for heritage through listing names of contributing individuals? In what way can we limit predatory practices without blocking the generative potential of Free Culture? What would a decolonial and feminist license look like, and in what way could we propose entangled notions of authorship? Or perhaps we should think of very different strategies?
(Full text in FR, NL and EN in the [programme booklet](http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/materials/booklet.pdf)
 
## Documentation
 
 
[Materials](http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future)
[Notes](https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/authorsofthefuture.notes)  
[Participants](https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/authorsofthefuture.participants)  
[Pictures](https://gallery.constantvzw.org/index.php/authors_of_the_future)
[Recordings]( http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/recordings/ )
 
## Programme
 
### Introduction and welcome
[Recording]( http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/recordings/1_Introduction_and_welcome_Femke_Snelting.wav )
 
### Presentations
**Severine Dusollier** (SciencesPo, Paris)
_Inclusive Copyright_
[Recording]( http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/recordings/2_Severine_Dusollier_Inclusive_Copyright.wav )
 
**Aymeric Mansoux** (XPUB, Rotterdam)
_Free Only-if_
[Recording]( http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/recordings/5_Aymeric_Mansoux_Free_Only_if.wav )
 
**Eva Weinmayr** (Pirate Library/And-And Publishing, London)
_Situated collective authorship_
[Recording]( http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/recordings/4_Eva_Weinmayr_Situated_collective_authorship.wav )
 
 
**Daniel Blanga Gubbay** (KFDA, Brussels)
_Potential authorship_
[Recording]( http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/recordings/3_Daniel_Blanga_Gubbay_Potential_Authorship.wav )

 
### Discussion
 
 
### Speculative license writing
 
**Group 1** (Eva Weinmayr, Severine Dusollier, Donatella Portoghese, Manetta Berends, Wendy Van Wynsberghe):  [notes](https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/r.bc5618c6ac900bc8ac8f36258dbdcfd8) + [discussion]( http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/recordings/Discussion_group_1_Eva_Donatella_Manetta_Severine_Wendy.wav )

**Group 2** (Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Elodie Mugfreya, An Mertens, Sarah Magnan, Loraine Further, Marjorie Bonnet +1): [notes](https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/r.b210dd95ffb4d793e2479304945e49b7) + [discussion](http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/recordings/Discussion_group_2_An_Elodie_Daniel_Sarah_Loraine_Marjorie_1_name_missing.wav )
 
**Group 3** Cinéma sauvage (Ayméric Mansoux, Rebecca Fruitman, Joachim Soudan, Peter Westenberg): [discussion]( http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/recordings/Discussion_group_4_Aymeric_Peter_Rebecca_Joachim.wav )
 
**Group 4** (Pierre Huyghebaert, Femke Snelting, Eric Schrijver, Deborah De Robertis): [discussion](http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/recordings/Discussion_group_3_Femke_Deborah_Pierre_Eric.wav )
 
## Materials
 
[Download materials](http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future)

### Revisited Open Content Licenses
 
Licenses selected for the way they render the problems with and omissions of Free Licensing legible:
 
* [The Consumers Dilemma License](http://piracy.americanassembly.org/the-consumers-dilemma/)
* [Decolonial Free Media License 0.1](https://freeculture.org/About/license)
* [Non-white heterosexual male license](https://nonwhiteheterosexualmalelicense.org/)
* [Peer Production License](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License)
* [Free Fermentation License](http://constantvzw.org/documents/authorsofthefuture/koji_spores.txt)
* [Climate Strike Software License](https://climatestrike.software/)
 
### Reader
 
* Rebecca Giblin, Kimberlee Weatherall (2017) A collection of impossible ideas. in: [What if we could reimagine copyright](https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/what-if-we-could-reimagine-copyright?)
* Carys Craig (2011) [Authorship and conceptions of the self: Feminist theory and the relational author](https://sci-hub.shop/10.4337/9780857933522) in: Copyright, Communication and Culture
* Severine Dusollier (2006), The Master's Tools v. The Master's House: Creative Commons v. Copyright http://www.crid.be/pdf/public/5884.pdf
* Severine Dusollier (2018) Auteur 3.0 – L’évolution des figures de la création à l’ère numérique
* Christopher Kelty (2016), [Recursive Publics and Open Access](https://monoskop.org/images/3/30/Memory_of_the_World_ed_Guerrilla_Open_Access_2018.pdf)
* Liang, Lawrence (2011), [Beyond Representation: The Figure of the Pirate. in: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property](https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/DAvrgk52aetZ8LXC3T18zKc3Tp5gSVcBpplXF6QTaRVpxDJ3) p.353-354
* Aymeric Mansoux (2014), [My Lawyer is an Artist: Free Culture Licenses as Art Manifestos](http://www.hz-journal.org/n19/mansoux.html)
* Daniel Blanga Gubbay (2018), Sample!
* Agency (2016), Thing 001652 (Monkey’s Selfies)
* Daniel Montáñez, Juan Vicente Iborra (2019) Los comunes coloniales y la descolonización de la izquierda (The Colonial Commons and the Decolonization of the Left)
* Eva Weinmayr, Eva (2019): "Confronting Authorship, Constructing Practices (How Copyright is Destroying Collective Practice)" in: Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (eds.), [Whose Book is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity](https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/925).
* Joe Karaganis (2018), Access from Above, Access from Below in: [Shadow Libraries](https://monoskop.org/File:Karaganis_Joe_ed_Shadow_Libraries_Access_to_Knowledge_in_Global_Higher_Education_2018.pdf)
 
### Further reading
 
* Aymeric Mansoux (2016), [How deep is your source](https://archive.bleu255.com/bleu255.com-texts/how-deep-is-your-source/)
* Frank Karlitschek (2019), [Aujourd’hui, les licences suffisent-elles](https://framablog.org/2019/08/30/aujourdhui-les-licences-suffisent-elles/) ?
* Severine Dusollier (2015) Inclusivity in intellectual property
* Lars Eckstein and Anja Schwarz (eds), Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South
* Mélanie Clément Fontaine, Les communautés épistémiques, in M. Cornu, F. Orsi et J. Rochfeld, Dictionnaire des Biens Communs, PUF, 2017.
* Sunimal Mendis (2019), Public open collaborative creation (POCC): A new archetype of authorship?
* Sarah Keenan (2010), [Subversive Property: Reshaping malleable spaces of belonging](https://www.academia.edu/354931/Subversive_Property_Reshaping_Malleable_Spaces_of_Belonging)
* Carys J. Craig, Joseph F. Turcotte, Rosemary J. Coombe (2011), [What is Feminist About Open Access?: A Relational Approach to Copyright in the Academy](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1888377)
* Sarah Ahmed (1998), [Authorship in: Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism](https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/x6mCunnynrx24TaC-CdoDzKA-mEIXujC96N8r_brqOA1DIEf2011)
* Aymeric Mansoux (2017), [Sandbox Culture](https://www.bleu255.com/~aymeric/dump/aymeric_mansoux-sandbox_culture_phd_thesis-2017.pdf)
* Christopher Kelty (2014), [Beyond copyright and technology: What Open Access Can Tell Us about Precarity, Authority, Innovation, and Automation in the University Today](https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4ms211vv)
* Dubravka Sekulic (2018), [On knowledge and stealing in: Funambulist](https://www.making-futures.com/dubravka-sekulic-on-knowledge-and-stealing/)
* Kobe Matthijs (2018), An ecology of practices, in SOTA Almanac
* Florian Cramer (2018), [Does the Tragedy of the Commons Repeat Itself as a Tragedy of the Public Domain?](http://documents.criticalmaking.nl/2018/12-12/Does_the_Tragedy_of_the_Commons_Repeat_Itself_as_a_Tragedy_of_the_Public_Domain-Florian_Cramer/Does_the_Tragedy_of_the_Commons_Repeat_Itself_as_a_Tragedy_of_the_Public_Domain.html)
* Eva Weinmayr in conversation with Sarah Kember, [Rethinking where the thinking happens](http://andpublishing.org/sarah-kember-rethinking-where-the-thinking-happens/) (2013)
* Matthew David Rana (2010), [Unmarking Equality’s Others: Bernier and Martin’s X&Y vs. France](https://www.artpractical.com/feature/social_work_politics_police_and_the_law_in_art_part_3/)
* Clare Birchall: Shareveillance: The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data (2017)

## Afterlives

Presentation at [Right the Right](http://constantvzw.org/site/Right-the-Right-Re-imagining-copyleft.html), November 2019 + [recording of the talk](https://soundcloud.com/hkw/femke-snelting-an-mertens-re-imagining-copyleft)

Anouncement for this [warp](http://constantvzw.org/site/Warp-Authors-of-the-future.html?var_mode=calcul)