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The Print Archive of Ars Electronica documents publications from 1979 onwards in the fields of Cyber Arts/Prix, Festival and special publications, including audiovisual supplements, museum brochures, updates, and other special editions. All texts and articles are fully searchable and readable. Festival catalogues are available as PDFs in their original layout from 2000 onwards; for earlier years, only the OCR text is preserved, but these are also readable. CyberArts catalogues are complete PDFs, while catalogues prior to 2005 were physically digitized, as the original print data no longer exists.

Since 2024, the archive also contains the estate of Hannes Leopoldseder, one of the founders of Ars Electronica, which comprises a significant collection of digitized historical documents.

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Catalogue: A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY - The Limits of Intellectual Property

“The age of copyright and intellectual property has reached its expiration date”—a development that already manifested itself in the technical fundamentals of the Internet has reared its head in the actual practices of a young generation of users and is bringing forth a new economy of sharing that clever businesspeople are now taking to the next conceptual level: a new cultural economy. With this provocative formulation, Ars Electronica 2008 is placing one of the core issues of modern knowledge-based society at the focal point of this year’s festival program. Artists, theorists and experienced network nomads elaborate on these phenomena that now characterize our culture of everyday life: from angst-inducing scenarios of the annulment of intellectual property rights all the way to kicking back and going with the global information flow. So then—what status can intellectual property still have in an open knowledgebased society? And who’s responsible for protecting intellectual property and establishing practicable rules?

Publisher
Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker

Language of the document
German

Year
2008

Tags
Festivalkatalog, Ars Electronica, art, technology, society


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