https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2019/right_the_right/kuratorisches_statement_/kuratorisches_statement_right_the_right.php
Presentation Constant: http://constantvzw.org/reimaginecopyleft/

Niva Elkin Koren

Promise of platforms: from central to decentral - or not

Unintended consequences of upload filters

Safe harbor - as if youtube would be ok

Intermediaries start to make value themselves

disparities in bargaining power sustained

Duty to filter changes creative ecosystem

Upload filters: 
20 years of experiences
Now '99.5% terrorist content filtered by AI'
Robust: 'no human being sees it'

Copyright enforcement - digital IDs (DRM)
a businessmodel

Digital fingerprints (scribd)

'online image theft' (flickr)

filtering live screenings
'Crowdsourcing based copyright infringement detection in live video streams' -- text

background music
problems of education/tutorials (music). Using examples becomes difficult.
removing pd content because it is also sold

bias:
monetizing copyrighted aligned with law-enforcement
-> privatizing lawmaking

filtering systems can not deal with 'trade-offs'

guarding GAFA 'guardians' = reimagining legal oversight

Proposal: adversary
Require the installment of a 'public AI'

transparency on what is removed
'computational social norms'

dispute resolution, computational and human

separating functions

'freedom by friction'

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could there be different platforms with different values?


Joe Karaganis

The piracy years: 20 years of thinking that piracy would kill digital market
'the end of culture'
This era is over

cloudbased distribution, streaming
scholarly publishing is just getting there

threat of piracy does not disrupt business.

It was a cultural golden age

revenues from digital content (live, streaming, books) up!!
1/3rd goes to platforms

strong equalities amongst creative makers
popularity rewards popularity
selfreinforcing markets - winner takes all

digital markets reinforce that dynamic

Fairness: from piracy to worries about distribution of payment
explained as 'value gap'

opacity of revenues in platforms / intermediaries
it is (still) a black box!

problems of opacity, fragmented data, non-interoperability
Data transparency

it seems there is too much interest in fragmentation. It needs legislation, mandatory disclosure.
- revenues
- distribution
- contracts

Q: it is such a soft approach of the obscenity of platforms! We need to break up these titans. It is the dark age!

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Infrastructure Disposession?

Rasmus Fleischer

The Bureau for Piracy

economic history of spotify
'not conforming with copyright'

idea <> expression
public <> private
creator <> consumer
... all collapse

cultural politics, not rights management

WE LOST to spotify - one solution for all music
Spotify teardown

Platform? Capitalism!
'platform sounds too flat'

what is the commodity?

started as a distribution technology. It was a pirate service!
from 'whatever you want, whenever you want' to 'music for every moment' (curatorial turn)

a different commodity -- it is not music distribution, but a 'personalized experience'.
music is an expensive commodity ... podcasts would be cheaper.

itunes / spotify vs. soundcloud / youtube
aggregation decide on copyright

digital fingerprinting. super rigid. no public domain!
rules not set by copyright law but by aggregation practice 

public domain gets copyrighted
derivative works are seen as covers -- made for western pop music

'The millenial whoop' - convergence, less melody.
copyright protects melody, not rhythm

phonographic rights: related to the expense of recording, not anymore.

rhythm is created by software / engineers / artists. Means rethinking what creativity is.

spotify creators came from advertising.

Martin Kretschmer

platform regulation

what is the regulatory object, agent?

issue of: 
    national sovereignty - vast multinationals out of reach
    economic concentration - accumulation and concentration; domination across domains

'magic power'

q: weird statistic - vinyl is more sold than digital music?
not a lot of sustainability for bands, concept albums impossible. digital culture shapes what can be done/thought.

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i don't really believe in frictionless distribution

technologised practice means what and how are entangled in particular ways
cannot be that commercial platforms are the only space to develop, circulate, experience digital content:
platform capitalism - infra, filters, tools do effect politics, aesthetics and space for authorpractices. 
'Social norms' set by states or turbo-capitalism ... 

In need other spaces of experimentation. with machine learning, infrastructures, digital production.

regulation overflows other spaces; less small players (?)

Kimberlee Weatherall

starting with a blank slate

current copyright is silly

'frictionless distribution' (!)