"Copying is the opposite of creating." "Copying equals multiplying, and multiplying is good." "Copying means having no imagination." "To me, copying is the genesis of creation." "My name is Hassan, I come from Lebanon." "I have lived here since 1993." "I am married with two children." "I started my business just like anyone else." "And suddenly I receive a letter from the SGAE, the royalty collecting society." ""The SGAE has verified that you have been using music by SGAE members for entertainment purposes in your premises."" "What can I say?" "I've never received a visit from the SGAE." "I'll show you what I have here." "The biggest space is the kitchen." "There are only 25 square feet for customers." "It's take-away only." "We have no sound system." "I only have a small domestic CD Player..." "It's in the kitchen, and the only music I play here is Lebanese music." "I get all the music from Lebanon." "Whenever I travel there or somebody visits they bring it for me, or I buy it or record it." "It's always Lebanese music." "Copyright, or the right to copy" "The situation in this Spanish town shows that Intellectual Property is present in our daily lives." "On the blog that accompanies this film we will describe the production process and upload the full interviews." "We want to experience these issues, so we will try to licence the film with a non-copyright licence that allows us to put the video online so that anybody can watch, download and copy it." "The film will show our attempts to do this." "Let's see if we manage." "Back to Montijo, the town that is leading the fight against the SGAE." "The small business association ADEMYC gives restaurant and bar owners information and tools to defend themselves." "This is our new poster." "When someone picks it up, we draw their attention to this part:" ""The sound system is owned by the company for private purposes, and the public does not pay for its use"." "That way the SGAE can't make claims." "Mario is part of ADEMYC." "He works as a chef in his own restaurant." "After being attacked by the SGAE he created the "Montijo Manifesto", which explains how to break free from the SGAE, becoming a landmark of the anti-SGAE struggle." "...using SGAE repertory, in the town of Valdelacalzada..." "ADEMYC is a non-profit association, just like the SGAE claims it is." "We provide advice and information to people who request this service." "The SGAE lobbied to change the law to suit them." "New laws have been passed just for the benefit of this group." "But not for all authors, just for a privileged group of SGAE members." "We bar owners are in a difficult situation." "If we don't want to pay the SGAE we have to be prepared to fight." "All over Spain, business and educational institutions are starting to question their payments to royalties societies." "Everyone in Montijo is aware of the issue and the Town Council voted to stop paying the SGAE." "I hope that other town councils stop paying the SGAE, like us." "What can the SGAE do?" "Sue every town in Spain?" "I can't see that happening." "We want to provoke discussion and force changes in the law." "And this sometimes requires drastic measures." "Everybody has heard of the SGAE, and is familiar with the digital levy, royalties collections and copyright." "But what is Intellectual Property (IP)?" "Intellectual Property is the set of rights that protect of human creations." "There are 2 types:" "Industrial Property protects brands and patents, and Copyright protects artistic creations, which is what concerns us here." "In Spain, IP law covers all original literary, artistic or scientific creations, such as books, plays, translations, original music, films, paintings, photos, sculpture," "architectural and engineering designs and software programs." "There are two types of legal rights:" "moral rights - which always belong to the author and protect authorship and the integrity of the work- and exploitation rights - which are transferable, such as the right to reproduction or dissemination." "The law sets the duration of exploitation rights:" "this is known as copyright." "Now, a work is copyrighted until 70 years after an author's death." "Then enters public domain." "But why this system, why this duration?" "Long ago, nobody owned culture, but it was locked up in monasteries." "With the invention of the printing press in 1439 everything changed:" "culture began to circulate." "The 1710 Anne Statute was the first Intellectual Property law." "It recognised the author's exploitation rights, but also defended public interests, ensuring works eventually entered the public domain." "Copyright spanned 14 years with the possibility for 14 more." "Since then, technology has been making it faster and easier to copy and spread culture." "Copyright duration has increased in leaps:" "1710: 28 years 1831: 42 years" "1909: 56 years 1976: author's lifetime + 50 years." "This brings us to 1998 and the most recent leap:" "the author's lifetime + 70 years." "Coincidentally, this extension took place just when a famous US mouse was about to enter the public domain... together with the thousands of millions of dollars generated by his image." "To find out what types of licenses exist, we go to Barcelona to see Ignasi Labastida, professor and Spanish representative of Creative Commons, one of the world's best known licensing systems." "He will help us choose the right license for our film." "We've come to you for advice on how to put our documentary online so that everybody can download and copy it." "We'd like to know what licensing options we have." "OK, there are many licenses, but if we focus on Creative Commons (CC) you should know that there are 6 CC licenses and all of them allow copying, distribution and public broadcast, for non-commercial purposes." "If you use a CC license, you authorize these uses of your film." "You also have to decide if you authorise modification." "That means allowing people to use parts of your work to make their own film." "This is legally called "derivative work"." "So you have six options." "From the most restrictive license" " no commercial use and no derivative works- to the most open, which allows commercial use and derivative works." "CC seems like the right path." "To find out which license to use and the whole process we go to see IP lawyer Javier de la Cueva back in Madrid." "We met Ignasi Labastida from CC, who explained the different alternative licenses..." " Why do you call them "alternative"?" " You're right!" "I mean other licenses more unusual than copyright..." "We want our film to be freely accessible on the internet." "OK, let's see..." "I've reviewed your contract with the TV station that co-produces, and..." "I'll try to explain the procedures." "Let me draw it instead..." "This will make it clearer." "We start from here." "That's the beginning." "The starting point is the contract between the production company - that's you- and the TV Station." "First we have to see if the contract allows you to upload it to the Net." "You are not only filming, you also have images, graphics, interviews with people..." "I guess you'll add music." "And there are also the rights of the writer and the director... and your rights as a production company..." "Javier takes us through the legal labyrinth of film production rights." "He talks about copyright and image rights, co-productions and exploitation rights." "He explains everything we have to do to put the film online:" "we have to sign a rights transfer contract with the scriptwriter, director, composer, designer..." "It must specify that we will use a CC license." "If anybody belongs to the SGAE or similar, we will need extra permits." "We also need to sign image release forms with everyone who appears in the film." "Last but not least: we need an agreement with TVE, the co-producers and co-owners." "This shows what we have to do to release the film with a copyleft license and put it online so anybody can download and copy it." "If we end up at the SI (YES), we're OK." "If we end up at NO, we won't be able to put it online." "Then we'll have to come up with something." "With the Internet and digital copies, file sharing has sky-rocketed." "Some sectors call it "piracy"" "In recent years, CD and DVD sales have decreased substantially." "New forms of consumption are flourishing." "The music and film industries are changing radically, and with e-books, publishing is heading for a revolution." "Film has been particularly affected by "piracy"." "It has no anti-copy protection like software and no alternative sales channels like the music industry." "When you can download a movie for free, that changes your perception of the film's value." "Movies can't be free." "All of us who have worked in the film industry know that takes a great effort by many people over a lot of months to make a movie." "In our company our aim is to turn cinemas into digital entertainment centres." "So we can not only show movies, but also documentaries, live football, operas..." "The fact is that with the opportunities offered by the Internet less people go to the movies and DVDs sales and rentals have gone down." "It's dramatic." "In the last 4 years, sales have decreased by more than 50%." "Hopefully, cinemas will continue to exist, but film exploitation will be mostly online." "Filmotech is one of Spain's major film portals." "You can watch a film on your computer for Û1-2." "The US is further ahead." "For $10 a month, NETFLIX offers a full range of series and films that you can watch on a TV connected to the Net." "The NETFLIX catalogue is huge compared to Spanish portals." "Film production has become very difficult." "The theatre and DVD sales model is outdated, and online sales and rentals are embryonic." "We need new business models." "'The Cosmonaut' is a feature film project." "It's our dream." "It's the perfect story to spend time working on." "It's our attempt to renovate and fix some problems in the film industry in terms of innovation in the financing, shooting and distribution." "'The Cosmonaut' model is based on audience participation, creating loyalty from the start." "For a few Euros, you become a producer, not just a viewer." "Extra funding comes from merchandising, parties and sponsorship." "'The Cosmonaut' is using its brand value as funding criteria, to sell screening rights to TV and theatres with guaranteed audiences, as well as selling all kinds of by-products." "It's a transmedia project." "The core is the movie, but there is also related content like apps, a book, a video game,..." "Our presence on the Internet is essential for our business model." "The use of the Internet and some events and parties we are making allows us to reach people in advance." "They become co-producers and this means we have an audience that will go to the cinema, watch it on TV, buy the DVD..." "This is the good thing about our 'producers'." "You can become a producer from 2 Euros, by buying a welcome pack." "The minimum contribution is 2 Euros and you get a personalized producer's certificate, and a number for a draw in which you can win an original cosmonaut suit." "You also get some stickers and a pin." "Alfonso is our musician." "In 10 years with us, he has composed music for 8 or 9 films." "He agrees to put the film online, and authorises us to use his music, which will also be available online, free for anybody to use." "I see this as natural too." "If a commercial TV station uses my music, they have to pay me royalties." "But I also think it's natural to put your music on the Internet so people can access it directly without any middlemen like the SGAE." "As well as composing soundtracks, he plays guitar live." "He plays in three bands:" "Desechos (rap), WAKAME (Japanese pop) and works with Mariem Hassan, a Saharan singer." "Like most SGAE members, Alfonso is a music worker, nothing like a big star." "We still don't know if Alfonso can legally upload his music on the Net, copyright-free." "The SGAE could demand payment from the website that hosts the files." "Our co-production agreement with TVE does not allow us to place the film on the Net." "We have proposed using a copyleft license and sent them information about CC." "We are waiting for their reply." "Image rights shouldn't be a problem, we will collect release forms when we shoot." "The director, writer, designer and subtitler are OK." "Our musician is a SGAE member, this may be a problem." "We have to talk to our lawyer." " Hello?" " Hi, it's Stéphane, from the documentary." " Hey, how are things?" " Good." "We have a problem with our composer, he is a member of the SGAE and we don't know if we can upload his music under Creative Commons or if we need a permit." "OK, if he is a member of the SGAE there is a problem." "When he joined the SGAE, he gave them some management rights for collecting royalties from TV and radio stations, bars and so on..." "However, the SGAE statutes set out the possibility of a 'single-use authorization'." "I think I already mentioned it." "So he can request an exception from the Board of Directors so that particular piece of music is not managed by the SGAE." "So he has to contact the SGAE to find out the procedure." "OK, we'll talk to them." "OK, keep me posted." " Bye." " Bye." "We have to talk to the SGAE." "We call and visit, but nobody in the SGAE Members Department can tell us what to do." "On our lawyer's advice, we make a formal request, in line with the SGAE statutes." "It looks like we've hit the SGAE, but how do royalties societies like the SGAE work?" "IP law makes collective royalties management mandatory." "Authors must collect royalties through an organisation, not individually." "In Spain, there are 8:" "the largest, SGAE, represents musicians and publishers." "Then there is CEDRO, writers;" "AGEDI, music producers;" "AIE, music performers;" "AISGE, actors;" "VEGAP, visual artists;" "EGEDA, audiovisual producers;" "and DAMA, film-makers." "They are all private and registered as non-profit organisations." "Their purpose is to collect royalties generated by their members." "Then they distribute the money, taking a cut for admin costs, welfare and promotion." "IP law also recognises authors' rights to compensation for private copies through the 'digital levy'." "Royalties societies distribute the money based on their own diffusion and use figures." "The SGAE is Spain's largest royalties society." "It has almost 100,000 members, and collected 316 million Euros in 2009." "In recent years, it has become the target of criticism, and the arch-enemy of net activists, net users and even some institutions that refuse to keep paying." "It is criticized for its aggressive collection policies, undemocratic nature and lack of transparency in its distribution of funds." "In the 1980's, the SGAE was completely restructured and expanded to include publishers." "Problem number 1:" "it works like a vertical trade union." "We think authors should be managed separately from publishers." "Problem number 2: in the 1800's it was one person, one vote, but today -and this is not an exaggeration or propaganda- only 7-10,000 members out of around 90,000 have the right to vote..." "There are around 100,000 SGAE members but not all make a living from their work." "So we work like big companies do:" "the more shares you have, the more votes you have." "Your number of shares (and votes) is proportional to the money you make." "The reason the SGAE is so conservative and resists all changes and always tries to stop technical advances lies in the voting system." "It's obvious." "If those who can vote are making money with this system, why would they change it?" "Some authors can't vote because they don't sell enough records." "They distribute the money they collect in a totally arbitrary way, essentially among the 10% who can vote." "1.75% of authors received 75% of the money from the royalties." "That's 1.75% of people receiving 75% of the money." "People say we're not transparent..." "Come on!" "What else can we do?" "We can't publish all the earnings with names." "It's forbidden by Data Protection laws." "Simona is from eXgae, a Barcelona group that helps people break free from the SGAE." "They are joined by many groups and activists who believe IP must be managed differently." "They work tirelessly to make the system fairer and more transparent." "They want to redefine "culture", which too often gets mixed up with entertainment and commerce." "According to the law, only collecting societies like the SGAE are entitled to collect royalties from TV stations and similar." "Then, in theory, this money should be distributed among the authors..." "The purpose of this performance is to tell the cultural industry that we will no longer pay the bill if they refuse to restructure." "We'll be right here for a while bringing you updates from the Cultural Industry Summit, taking place right over there..." "We must defend our freedom." "You can't stop history, you can't make a living from old privileges..." "The entertainment and cultural industries were based on selling DVDs, CDs and TV Programs, but now that's over..." "As a clown, I cannot mention any existing trademark in my shows." "For example, I can't do a sketch that mentions brands like McDonald's or Apple... because I would be taking the risk of being sued for the use of registered trademarks." "It's a paradox..." "I was able to do a show dressed up as Pope Ratzinger and make jokes about him freely but I can't use trademarks like McDonald's in a joke." "The judge who was there at the time..." "Javier de la Cueva gives us legal advice." "He is a Madrid lawyer who defends people or companies sued by royalties societies." "Together with David Bravo, he has defended many 'links webs' and bars sued by the SGAE and other royalties societies." "Spain is world leader in court rulings that recognize the rights to free culture." "We were among the first to rule on copyleft in the world." "Our judges understood what a 'hyperlink' is perfectly, but our political powers are blind to what society wants." "Javier runs a public archive where he shares his knowledge on IP and he publishes all his progress and successes." "David Bravo and other lawyers contribute, and share their experiences freely." "It is copyleft applied to law." "It's decentralized procedural law." "Concentrated knowledge used to give power to a few." "Now it's more freely distributed, and this collective intelligence gives better results than knowledge deposited in only one person." "These lawyers also work on education." "They appear in the media, universities and social centres, explaining the way they see IP." "When we're asked to give a talk, we always go." "Like here, in the University of Malaga." "People organize copyleft events and we participate." "They want to share these ideas for free, so we attend for free." "However, I charge when I'm asked to give lectures at companies." "Javier and I make money giving "concerts"." "I also charge for giving seminars or going to court cases." "But my "songs" are for free." "My texts are free on the Internet, all my lectures are on YouTube..." "I only charge when I leave this room and give a "concert", like musicians should..." "We have all the image release forms signed by participants." "Alfonso has requested a permit so that the SGAE does not manage the music in the film, and it can be put on the Net." "We are waiting to hear from them." "TVE authorizes us to use a Creative Commons license." "I used to sell records..." "In reasonable numbers..." "I even sold cassette tapes." "My first release was on tape." "The distributor, another part of the system, gets the CDs to the stores, and in our case, we get most of them back..." "Yeah, maybe out of curiosity, people download music..." "What do I think?" "That's the million-dollar question..." "I think it is unstoppable in the world we live in and with all the available technology." "You can't tell millions of kids aged from 12 to 16... and much older..." "You can't tell them that something that they can get so easily, with just a single click..." "is forbidden." "For years, the music industry has been in upheaval." "MP3 has gone universal and broadband allows records to be downloaded in seconds." "CD sales are plummeting and many groups use the Net for publicity, and even release their own records." "My office, my Netlabel, my record label." "All you need is a computer and an internet connection." "I tidied up a little here..." "Usually this is a mess." "These boxes are full of CDs." "They have to be handy so I can post them." "You can see I have a few." "Everyone who runs a small record label has a boxes under the bed, at their parent's, in a cupboard..." "You release CDs, but you don't sell many." "That's all you need, and a lot of hours of work." "I have my Netlabel website, where I post info about my bands: bios, news..." "And then an online shop." "That takes up more time." "I also spend time uploading the music to last.fm or archive.org... wherever I think it will reach more people." "Netlabels exists to ensure that music reaches as many people as possible as affordably as possible or ideally for free." "You can't see it as a business." "If bands want to make money, they'll go to a multinational record company." "Big Record Labels still use models from the past." "They work in a pre-internet way." "There are new rules now." "They're lagging behind." "Thanks to the Internet, a single net label can do everything." "A traditional label needs a distributor, shops... and it also needs middlemen to connect all links in the chain..." "A Netlabel does everything itself." "You don't need anyone, just the musicians." "I try to stick to my principles." "And the bands know this." "If I like a band, I tell them I want to release their music and I also tell them that I believe in things like copyleft, self-management... and working with minimum resources." "If that's OK with them, great!" "I believe in a future where record labels are more than just that." "It's not just about a new definition." "We need a new concept." "There's no point in having a company that just produces and sells CDs." "Publishing is on the brink of a revolution." "Some publishers have been online for years." "Their texts can be downloaded for free." "Paradoxically, this doesn't harm their business." "Traficantes de Sueños is a book store, a publishing house, an alternative distributor... a design studio and a social centre." "We publish texts we consider interesting and position them in places that will have a good reception." "From the moment Creative Commons Licenses began, we found them very useful." "When we use these licenses, it makes sense that the texts are available online." "Some people find it hard to understand that on the same day a print book is released, it's available for free download." "This is inherent to our belief in free culture." "And it also guarantees a wider diffusion of our texts." "We're a small publisher." "We only release a few titles a year but the impact of our texts means that the books by some of our authors are translated and they get invited to conferences." "And this is all because their work was made accessible online." "With books that are only in print, this wouldn't happen." "The problem of book piracy is not as serious as that of music piracy." "So there is no need to overreact." "The book industry has obviously undergone radical changes since the arrival of the Net." "Our intention is to offer our print catalogue as e-books." "No one is in a hurry to demolish his own house or to have less opportunities..." "And certainly no one is in a hurry to reduce their profits." "That's why publishing houses are dragging their feet, trying to buy more time." "IP law is changing rapidly." "Laws lag behind technological advances, and IP is growing in economic importance." "New forms of control are emerging." "Spain is reforming its IP laws." "The Sustainable Economy Law allows websites to be shut down for alleged infringement of IP law." "Controversially, no court order is required." "Legislation isn't up to date with the current situation." "Lawmakers are responsible for this." "Lawmakers directly affect the life-style and earnings of authors." "The new Spanish law restricts constitutional rights like freedom of expression." "And it won't help reduce file sharing." "The only thing the industry can do to stop illegal -free- copying is to impose a police state on the net, and thus on society too." "A blog reader sent us a video which we think is worth sharing here." "Followers, I'm 'Captain Copy'." "Culture Minister, do you recognize me?" "I'm your worst nightmare!" "I have millions of hard drives downloading non-stop..." "I'm better than Spotify, folks." "I have millions of songs." "Wait!" "TV channels do it all the time, but can we legally show this video?" "Back to the lawyer!" "You have to ensure that the person who sent you the video owns the rights and can transfer them to you so that you can use it in your film." "If not, I wouldn't advise you to use it." "Javier tells us about the right to quote, as per article 32 of IP law, allowing the use of material for education and research without prior authorisation." "Ignoring the law, TV stations use anything they find on the Net just for entertainment, not for education or research." "We found a video on Internet that we're wild about." "It's a remix of a Spanish song, "Paco, Paco, Paco"" "with a video clip of Beyoncé." "It's crazy but it works!" "Look!" "It is now common to collect and transform content found on the Net." "The young generation of digital natives is used to watching, using, transforming, and remixing anything they find online, usually returning it back to the Net." "This is the case of Pep, 14, from Catalonia." "I like creating and editing things." "Everything I edit, like games and video clips," "I upload all of it onto an account I have on the Internet." "I wanted to do a Jurassic Park Lego trailer." "So I analysed the original movie trailer." "I worked with 'I can animate', and took the original soundtrack from the trailer." "And then just synched my pictures with the original sound." "What about IP and copyright?" "Pep says they don't teach these things in school." "And he can explain why he uses copyrighted material he finds on the Net." "I knew nothing about copyright at the time." "I didn't know that using other people's work was illegal." "But I don't make money from this..." "It's legal and illegal at the same time..." "It would be bad to use this material to make money." "But I think I should be allowed to use it if I don't make money." "The cultural industry must start understanding people like Pep, its future clients." "It has to accept that Pep will never buy music on CDs, or films on DVD." "Royalties Societies have designed educational campaigns for young people dealing with Intellectual Property..." "the way they see it." ""Educate to Create" is a school program designed by CEDRO and other institutions, to introduce intellectual property material on the school syllabus in an entertaining way." "The "Educate to Create" videos show the kind of education they're giving..." "In one of the videos the teacher asks:" ""What do you think about private copy?"" "One of the children gives the answer they're looking for, I guess:" ""It's terrible, everything must be original"" ""Do you think private copies are good?"" ""No way, everything must be original"" "Private copy is a right guaranteed by law." "Unless this child was corrected after giving this answer, this means they are teaching kids that it's wrong to exercise this right." "This shows us the lack of ethics of these people." "They don't have any kind of consideration for others." "They don't care..." "They manipulate children, people, anybody..." "Everything in their lives is about money." "It's all about their money..." "What kind of society are we building with these 'gentlemen' in charge?" "I'm Captain Clone, owner of everything." "You create something, I take it." "You create a book, a video game, a song, I'll steal it." "What he does is called piracy, and it's a crime..." "For 5000 years, children have been told to copy handwriting to learn how to write, and suddenly copying is bad?" "It's unbelievable they way these children are being used:" ""I'm the bad pirate, I copy!"" "How can you learn to write except by copying?" "I'm cheaper!" "Free if you download me from the Net!" "Be original!" "Be original!" "Defend your rights and respect those of others." "I always thought "culture" was somehow linked to "commerce"." "Cultural management, grants, legislation, royalties societies are all based on a commercial culture that generates profit." "Often, cultural industries are actually entertainment industries." "But most cultural producers work on a "non-professional" or even altruistic basis." "How many writers live off book sales?" "What about musicians?" "The things people create in their homes, on the streets, independently of companies... they things they film with their cameras and upload to YouTube... this is also culture." "It helps to understand society, the world and yourself." "Culture goes much further than just the market." "But the industry mixes them up to suggest that if you attack the industry, you're attacking culture." "If this harms big corporations, I'm very sorry jobs are being lost." "Many shipyards and mines have also closed in Spain, with a great loss of jobs." "After months of phone calls, emails and meetings with the SGAE press manager, we have an appointment with the Director of Members." "In spite of everything I've heard," "I might still consider joining the SGAE as a writer and director." "We also have to find out if we can put Alfonso's original score online." "You should join the SGAE because of the many services we can offer." "The best known are financially related." "We'll pay you your royalties." "They haven't replied to our written query, so I ask if Alfonso can manage the rights to his own music, without receiving a SGAE invoice for downloads in a few months." "On behalf of the SGAE I can say it's fine." "We won't send you bills for downloads." "The SGAE gets a lot of bad press..." "It seems easy now, but we spent four months trying to get through to the department, and nobody could give us an answer." "If you decide to waive royalties for online exploitation" " because you have it on your own website as a producer or director, or on other websites to increase its reach" "you're totally free to do that." "Everything has turned out OK." "TVE allows us to put the film online, and we can use Alfonso's music without worrying about the SGAE." "Now we have to decide if it's a good idea - as a small production company- to use a copyleft license, or stick to copyright." "The SGAE doesn't offer me flexibility for managing rights to my works and it only recognises copyright licenses." "I don't like their distribution policies and I wouldn't be able to attend meetings and have a voice." "I'm not very impressed by the real estate operations they are involved in, so I won't be joining the SGAE for now, even if it means missing out on my royalties." "This is by no means the end of the industry." "It will change, but it won't go away." "Because people will still want culture, movies, music..." "If it's impossible to make money out of creating culture, nobody will create culture" "or artistic content." "Right now it seems that nobody will be able to make money out of culture." "But I think we are transitioning to a new model of business and a new model of relations between authors and consumers of information." "Internet is creating problems like paedophilia, among other things..." "New technology is not necessarily good." "At some point, we'll have to regulate it." "These corporations that systematically infringe citizens' rights:" "we have to send them bankrupt so they can't afford to keep lobbying!" "There will be always music." "There is more music now than ever before." "Music will be around for a long, long time..." "We've almost done it!" "TVE agrees to let us use a CC license and put the film on the Net, so anybody can watch it, copy it and download it." "Right now, for this project, online distribution is more positive than copyrighting our film." "From Mesopotamian clay tablets to 21st century best-sellers, there has always been writers and readers, there will always be authors and viewers." "This whole story has shown that culture will never disappear, but we need flexible, updated IP law." ""Cultural Industries" and middlemen have changed throughout history, and the Internet entails another huge change..." "We have to understand that things change, decrease, evolve and even disappear, and that's not necessarily a bad thing." "We'll keep on fighting!" "Peace and Community!"