CopyCamp is an international

conference A conference is a meeting, often lasting a few days, which is organized on a particular subject, or to bring together people who have a common interest. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always d ...

devoted to

copyright A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal 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, ...

, organized in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

by the

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

. 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 and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...

Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEC; stylized as SΛMSUNG; ) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation founded on 13 January 1969 and headquartered in Yeongtong District, Suwon, South Korea. It is curr ...

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 Copyright for Creativity - A Declaration for Europe issued on 5 May 2010, is intended as a statement of how copyright policy could be constructed in the Internet Age. It comes against the background of political debate within Europe to rethink copy ...

and National Audiovisual Institute. Every year, the event is organized under the honorary patronage of the

Ministry of Administration and Digitization The Ministry of Administration and Digitization () was formed on 21 November 2011, from a reorganisation of the '' Ministry of Infrastructure'' and the ''Ministry of Interior and Administration''. The Ministry was disbanded on 16 November 2015 ba ...

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 The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw ...

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

International Visegrad Fund The International Visegrad Fund is an international donor organization promoting development and closer cooperation among the Visegrad Group (V4) countries—the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The main aim of the fund is to strengt ...

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 July 13, 1959) is an American legal scholar and historian who is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. Biography Moglen sta ...

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 17 July 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 th ...

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 t ...

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 Minist ...

, Lucie Guibault,

Novika Novika (born 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 Yngve Slettholm (born 28 December 1955) is a Norwegian cultural executive, politician for the Christian Democratic Party and Salvationist. Early life and education Slettholm attended the Norwegian Academy of Music from 1974 to 1980. He received h ...

, Piotr Waglowski,

Attila Szervác Attila ( or ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in early 453. He was also the leader of an empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Gepids, among others, in Central and East ...

and

Michał Wiśniewski Michał Krystian Wiśniewski (born 9 September 1972 in Łódź) is a Polish pop vocalist, leader of the pop group Ich Troje,

, 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 or the V4) is a cultural and political alliance of four Central European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. The alliance aims to advance co-operation in military, e ...

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 CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and bui ...

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