CopyCamp is an international conference devoted to

copyright A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educatio ...

, organized in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

by the

Modern Poland Foundation Modern Poland FoundationEnglish name as used at https://nowoczesnapolska.org.pl/about-us/ ( pl, Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska) is a Polish non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Warsaw, focused on building open educational resources, developing ...

. Representatives of cultural institutions, the media, creative sectors, academic, legal, political and non-governmental circles gather annually to discuss the influence of copyright on the circulation of cultural goods and social changes taking place all over the world.

Partners and organizational background

Strategic partners are Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe,

Google Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...

Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, a ...

and Stowarzyszenie Autorów ZAiKS. Among other partners supporting the first three editions of the conference were: Coalition for Open Education, Kronenberg Foundation, Copyright for Creativity and National Audiovisual Institute. Every year, the event is organized under the honorary patronage of the Ministry of Administration and Digitization and academically supported by

Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) is a supercomputing and research data centre at the University of Warsaw in Poland. See also * Open access in Poland Open access scholarly communication of Poland can ...

. The third edition of CopyCamp was co-financed by the International Visegrad Fund.

Editions

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The speakers of the first edition organized in 2012 in kino Kultura were

Nina Paley Nina Carolyn Paley (born May 3, 1968) is an American cartoonist, animator, and free culture movement, free culture activist. She was the artist and often the writer of the comic strips ''Nina's Adventures'' and ''Fluff'', after which she worked ...

, Jan Błeszyński, Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg, Michał Kwiatkowski, Jarosław Lipszyc, Alek Tarkowski, Elżbieta Traple, Hieronim Wrona and Paweł Zalewski, among others. In 2013 the conference took place on October 1 in kino Muranów with

Eben Moglen Eben Moglen (born 1959) is an American legal scholar who is professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. Professional biography Moglen started out as ...

as a special guest. Other speakers were Edwin Bendyk, Barbara Fatyga and Wojciech Orliński, among others. CopyCamp 2014 took place on November 6–7 in kino Praha with two keynote speakers:

Cory Doctorow Cory Efram Doctorow (; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog '' Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of ...

and

Birgitta Jónsdóttir Birgitta Jónsdóttir (born 17 April 1967) is an Icelandic politician, anarchist, poet, and activist. She was a Member of the Althing (MP) for the Southwest Constituency from 2013 to 2017, representing the Pirate Party, having been elected at th ...

next to such figures as

Michał Boni Michał Jan Boni (born 10 June 1954 in Poznań) is a Polish politician. He was the Minister of Labour and Social Policy in 1991 and a deputy to the Polish Sejm from 1991 to 1993. He was a member of the Cabinet of Poland from 2009 and was Ministr ...

, Lucie Guibault,

Novika Novika (''Katarzyna Nowicka''; born 1974) is a Polish vocalist, DJ, and producer. She plays a blend of electro music, deep house, deep techno, and dubtronica. She is known for her numerous collaborations with Futro, Smolik, Fisz, Vienio & Pel ...

, Yngve Slettholm, Piotr Waglowski,

Attila Szervác Attila (, ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Bulgars, among others, in Central and ...

and

Michał Wiśniewski Michał Krystian Wiśniewski (born 9 September 1972 in Łódź) is a Polish pop vocalist, leader of the pop group Ich Troje,''Gazeta_Wyborcza''/ref>_who_sang_for_Poland_at_the_2003_Eurovision_Song_Contest.html" ;"title="Gazeta_Wyborcza''.html" ; ...

, among others. At the third edition of CopyCamp, special attention was paid to the perspective of the

Visegrád Group The Visegrád Group (also known as the Visegrád Four, the V4, or the European Quartet) is a cultural and political alliance of four Central European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. The alliance aims to advance co-op ...

countries.

Works

All artistic and scientific materials, logos, photographs, audio and video recordings are under

CC BY-SA A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".A "work" is any creative material made by a person. A painting, a graphic, a book, a song/lyric ...

or compatible licences.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://copycamp.pl, CopyCamp official website * CopyCamp video recordings: *
CopyCamp 2012 on YouTube
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CopyCamp 2013 on YouTube
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CopyCamp 2014 on YouTube
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CopyCamp 2017 on YouTube
* CopyCamp audio recordings: *
CopyCamp 2012
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CopyCamp 2013 audio recordings

CopyCamp 2014: post-conference publication
Free culture movement Copyright law events Recurring events established in 2012 International conferences in Poland Conferences in Warsaw 2012 establishments in Poland