CC-Salon London

Free seminar with UK’s leading social media expert for artists and
creative entrepreneurs

Are you a writer, musician, film maker or visual artist? Or maybe you
work as a manager, promoter, or executive in the music, publishing,
film/TV or visual arts industries? Whether you are creative, a
creative entrepreneur, or working at any level in the creative
industries, you’ll have seen, or experienced, how the internet is
‘changing everything’. You’ll probably have heard that the web is
killing culture and your industry along with it. But the internet
creates exciting new ways to distribute and promote creative works and
should be seen by the creative industries as an opportunity rather
than a threat.

Free culture - giving versions of creative works away, and even
allowing others to copy, distribute, sample or create derivative works
from them - is at the heart of these new opportunities. This approach
seems alien to many in the creative world who assume that free culture
cannot generate income, but a freer attitude to cultural distribution
will help you connect with a new audience, to develop a more engaged
audience and even to make new business connections.

The Creative Business in the Digital Era seminar, presented by Suw
Charman, will help you understand the opportunities presented by open
IP (intellectual property) and how being open should be a central part
of your creative business model.

Who should come?

You could be a C-level executive or an independent creator, or anyone
in between, from any size of company:

• C-level executives, independents, freelances, entrepreneurs,
  corporates, SMEs
• Musicians, record labels, music publishing companies
• Writers, journalists, publishers
• Film makers, production companies, broadcasters
• Visual artists, photographers, artists, illustrators and designers

When and where is it?

The Creative Business in the Digital Era seminar will be delivered as
a single full-day course, and as an evening course repeated on two
days:

• Day Course: 17 March 08, 9.00am to 5.30pm
• Evening Course: 18 March 08, 6.00pm to 9.00pm
• Evening Course: 19 March 08, 6.00pm to 9.00pm

All courses will be held at 01zero-one in central London (main
entrance is on Hopkins Street):

Westminster Kingsway College
Soho Centre
Peter Street
London W1F 0HS

Cost
This is a subsidised course and is free to attendees. We will even
provide attendees with lunch and refreshments.

How do I apply?
Visit http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/cbde-application-pack/
and download our Application Pack. The closing date is 15th February
2008, and we will respond to all applicants by 29 February 2008.

Any questions?
Contact Suw Charman or Michael Holloway at creativebusiness@openrightsgroup.org

CC-Salon London returns with our final event of 2007, for more discussion and debate on the subjects of art, technology, copyright and free culture.

This time round we’ll be joined by Jordan Hatcher, a lawyer and legal consultant specialising in intellectual property and technology law, who will present and discuss his work on a new report entitled “Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector”. This study primarily examines the use of the Creative Archive (CA) and Creative Commons (CC) licences among UK museums, libraries,
galleries, and archives. The key objective has been to get a snapshot of current licensing practices in this area in 2007, and Jordan will report on his findings.

The Salon will be held from 7PM - 11PM on Tuesday the 20th of November at:

The Crown and Anchor, 22, Neal St, Covert Garden London WC2H 9PS. [gmap] [venue information]

The event is open to all with no registration, but if you like, you can register on either Facebook or Upcoming.

The first London CC-Salon was a great success, with some fantastic contributions from everyone! In addition to all our scheduled contributors, David Bausola was on hand to give us a short screening of Where are the Joneses? a new comedy produced by Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow productions and sponsored by Ford, released under a CC BY-SA licence. Great thanks to all who helped out, especially Tom, Becky, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Andi, David, Alison, Guy and Michael.

Here’s a video of Becky’s interview with Tom Reynolds (many thanks to Guy West for filming this!):

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The next salon will be held on the 6.30 on Thursday the 26th of July, once again at Juno on Shoreditch High Street. This month we’ll have presentations from Paula leDieu of Magic Lantern, Michela Ledwidge from Modfilms, and live music from Calendargirl / Calendarsongs. You can sign up on Facebook or Upcoming, see you there!

Creative Commons, the Open Rights Group and Free Culture UK are pleased to announce the first London CC-Salon event, to be held in Shoreditch on Thursday 28th June 2007.

The CC Salon is a monthly event focused on building a community of artists and developers around Creative Commons licenses, standards, and technology, and have been running with great success in cities around the world, including San Francisco, Berlin and Johannesberg. All are welcome, especially anyone interested in Creative Commons, copyright, Free Culture, Open Source, art, media, and music.

CC-Salon will held on the last Thursday of every month, at Juno, 135 Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JE, from 6.30pm until midnight. The June event will feature contributions from:

• Tom Reynolds (Random Acts of Reality)
• Elizabeth Stark (Free Culture USA)
• Jonathan Roberts (FreeMeDVD)
• and after-dinner.net DJs

In addition, we’ve got 100 free Magnatune.com gift vouchers to give away, courtesy of John Buckman. Each voucher is worth $8, or one album from Magnatune’s large and eclectic catalogue of DRM-free, CC-licenced music.

There’s plenty more planned for future events, and we’d love to hear from anyone interested in participating, whether by performing, exhibiting work, or giving a talk or presentation. Please email Tim if this sounds like you! Tags:after dinner, cc salon, creativecommons, event, fcuk, freeculture, freemedvd, org, randomactsofreality