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Hi all! I just bought three interesting books and I thought to share their titles with you here, because it's about Digital Arts & New media Arts 1. The Fundamentals of Digital Arts (published by AVA Academia) 2. Digital Baroque: New Media Art & Cinematic Folds (Timothy Murray) 3. Literary Art in Digital Performance: Case Studies in New Media Art & Criticism (Francisco J. Ricardo) From a quick search, all can be found at Waterstones online bookstore

Also, for those who don't know it, here's an interesting site about New Media Art and philosophy. ****http://digitalsouls.com/**** Cheers Bill

There is a crisis in photography regarding copyright. Please act against this pending legislation or there will be no more professionals in the business!! Title: Changes to Copyright Act could kill parts of the photography industry Feature: Daily News Date: 18 January 2010 The Digital Economy Bill, currently under scrutiny in the House of Lords, will bring in blanket licensing for all copyright works - including photographs, warn a media law expert and the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies Section 42 of the Digital Economy Bill, as expected, will bring orphan works – works where the copyright owner cannot be found – into the public domain. However, what was unexpected is the second part of the clause, which imports a new section 116B into the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This new section delegates to the Secretary of State the power to settle regulations which will transfer a property right – the right to copy – from one person to another without the owner’s consent. The proposed legislation says that the Secretary of State ‘may by regulations provide for authorising a licensing body to grant copyright licences in respect of works in which copyright is not owned by the body or a person on whose behalf the body acts.’ Under current legislation, only the copyright owner of a work is able to issue licenses. As it stands this bill will comprehensively undermine the law of copyright, says Rupert Grey of media law firm Swan Turton. ‘The exclusive right to copy, which is the foundation of copyright, will disappear in all classes of work. The exclusive right to copy is the habeas corpus of copyright: once you take it away you remove the foundation stone on which everything else rests – the right of the artist to control his own work. This is the most fundamental change in copyright since it first came onto the statute books over 300 years ago.’ The changes could have a direct impact on image libraries, removing them the right to control the use of the image, which is an essential part of the creative process. It could also deprive the agency of income. 'Professional photographers control the use of their images carefully because it has an effect on the power of the image,' Grey tells BJP. 'These proposals give control to a third party who will be free to use the photograph for purposes which the author finds abhorrent. This is an intrusion into the photographer's private space.' He adds: 'In jurisprudential terms, this is a significant derogation from widely accepted principles of law. If blanket licensing is introduced, the impact on the creation and dissemination of visual arts will be significant.' Copyright owners and the agencies and libraries that represent them will no longer be exclusive licensees. Linda Royles, a senior consultant to the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies continues: ‘Perhaps there is good reason that photography transactions and relationships between clients and rights holders are managed directly. There may be 1000s of instances where photographs must and should not be used.’ BAPLA goes further by warning that clause 116B could kill parts of the photography industry. ‘This clause could potentially destroy the principle of direct licensing, which is the most efficient means of ensuring that a rights holder is remunerated exactly and properly for the use of their work, and lose creators the right to control their own economic and moral rights,’ says Paul Brown, BAPLA’s chairman. ‘Imagine a photographer losing control of every image they shoot. Imagine not being able to instruct anyone how you want your work marketed or respected. Imagine not being paid directly for an image usage, but having to claim for a random share of an unknown pot of money. This is completely untenable and unacceptable.’ The planned legislation to allow greater access to orphan works has fairly wide support, but not everyone agrees how it should be done. Grey and others think that the proposal to create an orphan works licensing body is flawed. ‘There is no reason at all why a new exception should not be introduced to the acts which are currently restricted by copyright, provided the publisher undertakes a "diligent" search for the owner,’ says Grey. ‘What is critically important is that the burden of proof that the copyright owner cannot be found is on the publisher; and - importantly - if he fails to do a proper search, he gets stung in damages.’ While the proposed changes make provisions for copyright owners to opt-out of a collective licensing scheme, it remains unclear how the system will operate. If an individual photographer opts-out, says BAPLA, 'it doesn’t mean that their work will cease to be used in any extended collective licensing agreement. It just means that when you opt out you lose the right to claim the money that is being collected for the use of your work. This seems hardly fair. If you are against the principle of someone else having control over your work and your business, saying “no” doesn’t mean no.’ Already, two Lib-Dem peers – Lords Razzall and Clement-Jones – have lodged an amendment to strike 116B out of the final bill. The House of Lords, which started debating the bill earlier this month, is expected to finalise the text in the next two weeks, BJP understands. For more breaking news on the Digital Economy Bill, visit bjp-online.com/news. Source: © Incisive Media Ltd. 2009 Incisive Media Limited, Haymarket House, 28-29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RX, is a company registered in the United Kingdom with company registration number 04038503

Links from gallery guide for Decode: Digital Design Sensations, V&A until April 11 to book workshops: http://www.vam.ac.uk/tickets to contribute to the art:http://www.vam.ac.uk/decode/recode installation in the tunnel of South Ken tube station:http://www.studioroosegaarde.net installation at the bottom of the library stairs:http://www.random-international.com work shown on the Exhibition Rd facade: http://www.simonheijdens.com The other artists: http://www.joshuadavis.com http://www.smoothware.com/danny/weavemirror.html http://www.chrisoshea.org http://www.jasonbruges.com http://www.memo.tv http://www.fabrica.it http://www.flight404.com http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~cocteau http://www.danielbrowns.com http://www.zoofilm.net http://www.academyfilms.com http://www.number27.org http://www.ryojiikeda.com http://www.kamvar.org http://www.flong.com http://www.liaworks.com http://www.aaronkoblin.com http://www.lozano-hemmer.com http://www.maedastudio.com http://www.rossphillips.me http://www.showstudio.com http://www.pohflepp.com http://www.earstudio.com http://www.postspectacular.com http://www.sphericalrobots.org http://www.toxi.co.uk http://www.reas.com http://www.sennep.com http://www.stanza.co.uk http://www.troika.uk.com http://www.wowlab.net http://www.yoke.dk http://www.unlekker.net http://www.universaleverything.com http://www.everyware.kr http://www.msavisuals.com (Claire)

Check this out... __http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/december/cr-january-issue__ The analogue search engine that UXUS built for H&M in Stockholm whereby pulleys and ropes replace algorithms and browsers. (Claire)

Ludmilla My Side | music (Soundtrack-Ambient-Electronica) If you are interested in music genres like Soundtrack-Film music, Ambient, Electronica, please have a listen at my music project called Ludmilla My Side. You can find my music at: http://www.myspace.com/ludmillamyside http://www.last.fm/music/Ludmilla+My+Side Feel free to have a listen or a conversation about something collaborative in case anyone has a similar music project, too!

Interesting events in Liverpool over the next few days. FACT is a really important venue for all things digital and art related and well worth a visit a some point. Some of the ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES events maybe available as videos after the festival:







http://andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/home.php

Hide&Seek are running one of their SANDPIT gaming events also in Liverpool but they do things in other cities as well.