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Revision as of 17:04, 3 June 2011
 Logo de La-Ex | |
| Formation | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Type | Activist group |
| Legal status | Active |
| Location | |
| Website | la-ex.net |
La-EX, known as the eXgae until November 2010,[1] is a Spanish non-profit platform that supports and develops alternative models for cultural diffusion and royalties distribution. It also lobbies politically at the national and international levels, through legislative proposals and viral campaigns.
Initiatives
oXcars
The oXcars' are a non-competitive awards ceremony held at Sala Apolo in Barcelona, Spain in October each year. They are a public showcase that puts the spotlight on cultural creation and distribution carried out under the paradigms of shared culture. [2] Through presentations and symbolic mentions of works in a series of categories, the oXcars uses parody as a strategy for showing real legal solutions. The award categories include: Music, Animation, Theatre, Human Tools, Future Markets and Great Leftovers of Spanish Culture, among others. [3]
FCForum
The FCForum is an international conference organised by La-EX and a network of other groups and activists. It brings together organisations and experts in the field of free/libre culture and knowledge, with the aim of creating a strategic global framework for action and international coordination. It takes place annually in Barcelona.
The first FCForum was held in Barcelona from October 30 to November 1, 2009, to coincide with the 2nd oXcars awards ceremony. The principal organisations and active voices in the world of Free Culture and knowledge participated in the event. [4] A series of working groups at the Forum produced a unique document known as the “Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge,” [5][6] which proposes a series of reforms to the Spanish Intellectual Property legislation, Telecoms Package and other issues related to the circulation of information and net neutrality. The Charter was sent to a thousand governments and political and social institutions around the world.[7] International bodies such as the European Union Committee on Culture and Education and the Government of Brazil (through the Department of Digital Culture) sent official observers to the Forum.
The second FCForum was held in Barcelona from October 28 to 31, 2010, and focused on the new models of sustainability in the digital era. Two documents were drafted as a result of this event: the “Sustainable Models for Creativity and the How-To Manual for Sustainable Creativity'.
D'Evolution Summit
The D’Evolution Summit was created as a civil society response to the European Forum for Cultural Industries, organised by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, which was held in Barcelona on March 29 and 30, 2010. Authorities, experts and lobby groups participated in the Forum, which focused on five core themes: financing and the cultural industries, intellectual property and royalties management, strategies for the internationalisation of culture, culture and territorial development, and the profiles and skills for culture industry professionals. [8]
The Forum for Cultural Industries lent continuity to the International Conference on Economy and Culture held in May 2009, and took place just before the informal meeting of the 27 Ministers of Culture of the European Union on March 31 within the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the EU.
The D’Evolution Summit was a counter-summit organised at the same time, to demand amendments to Spain’s Law of Sustainable Economy (known as the anti-downloads law) and an end to the monopoly of copyright collecting societies.
During three days, the D’Evolution summit organised Internet broadcasts of the proceedings of the Forum for Cultural Industries and the Informal Meeting of Ministers, staged concerts by groups who use free licences, and carried out actions such as the handing out music with free licences to hairdressing salons and the action “We won’t carry the bucket for an industry that refuses to adapt to reality” in which the comedian Leo Bassi dressed up as a clown and tried to give a giant inflatable duck to the ministers of culture.[9] D’Evolution also organised viral campaigns and provided information on the topics being discussed at the Forum through social networks. [10]
Parents are the Pirates
Parents are the Pirates is a self-published collective book consisting of contributions by fifty authors who were invited to write or illustrate, in 400 words or less, one of the following topics:
- Culture in the digital era: new “profitabilities”
- The creative ecosystem of the digital age: now or never
- Digital information is what today’s memory is made of
- Copying and its benefits
- Lies, bits, the inquisition and P2P
- 13,000,000 pirate homes: piracy does not exist, parents are the pirates
- Banning communication in the communication age
- P2P: Do we really want to follow in the footsteps of Pakistan, China, France and Sudan?
- Lets talk about the middlemen: restructuring in times of crisis. Culture existed before the cultural industry
- Lost profits is counting your chickens before they hatch (and the chickens are culture)
- Public Domain vs benefits for parasites
- The right to quote: the key to the link economy
The book was launched at the first oXcars, in October 2008. It was published under a 2008 season Poetic Licence and is distributed by independent publishing house Traficantes de Sueños.
Legal advice
La-EX provides legal advice on copyright, licences, the Spanish levy on private copying, private copies, P2P, copyright collecting societies, broadcast rights and other issues relating to the digital society. They provide artists with information about the licences they can use to cover their work without becoming dependent on a collecting society. They also advise businesses that are being sued by Spanish collective society SGAE and want to know their rights and obligations.[11]
Change of name
On August 2, 2010, lawyers from Spain’s largest copyright collecting society, the SGAE, sent a certified fax to the eXgae demanding they shut down the domain name exgae.net and suspend their activities, alleging infringement of the SGAE brand and unfair competition. [12] In the interests of avoiding a long and expensive legal battle, in November 2010 the collective changed its name to La-EX, although it continues working in the same sphere of activity.
See also
References
- ^ "EXGAE cambia de nombre a 'La EX' tras las amenazas de la SGAE". El Mundo. November 29, 2010. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- ^ "La gala de los oXcars exalta la circulación libre de la cultura". El País. October 23, 2008. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- ^ "Las categorías y los eXponsors". La-EX. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- ^ "Barcelona organiza el I Foro internacional de Cultura Libre en la sociedad del conocimiento". Europa Press. October 20, 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|autor=(help) - ^ "Carta para la innovación, la creatividad y el acceso al conocimiento". FCForum. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- ^ "Propuestas para innovar en la reforma de Ley de Propiedad Intelectual". El Mundo. January 29, 2010. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- ^ "Mil instituciones del mundo recibirán una Carta aprobada en Barcelona por la Cultura Libre en Internet". Europa Press. April 14, 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- ^ "Foro Europeo de Industrias Culturales". Ministerio de Cultura. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- ^ "Leo Bassi intenta entregar un pato de goma gigante a los ministros europeos de Cultura". Europa Press. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- ^ "Internautas españoles preparan una cumbre alternativa a la de ministros de Cultura". Europa Press. March 22, 2010. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- ^ "Internet se organiza para defender el derecho a compartir". Público. April 13, 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|autor=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "SGAE contra Exgae: exigen el cierre del sitio web activista por un 'conflicto de marcas'". El Mundo. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
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