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?

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