[p2p-research] Fwd: [My-ci] Internet defense: Successful response of the civil society

Fri Apr 9 22:52:14 CEST 2010

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Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:12 PM
Subject: [My-ci] Internet defense: Successful response of the civil society
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Thanks to everybody's collaboration, the civil society response to the
summit of Ministers of Culture from the 27 European Union countries,
and their meeting with the Forum of Cultural Industries, was a massive
success.

Civil society managed to deactivate the discourse of the lobbies.

Below is a report of this latest struggle, but first, here is some of
the incredible amount of material produced over the last few days, so
that you can spread it and use it:

1 – Videos that explain our demands – very simple and didactic, so
that even a Minister can understand it (English versions):
The Tracks Collector:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpFe3CbVBw
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/el-cobrador-del-track/
WE create, We decide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=3wd4FUrzKZc&feature=related
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/nosotros-decidimos/
Sharing is Necessary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpAAJZYVlQM
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/compartir-es-necesario/
I'm a co-producer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy7s_JoHGQs
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/vicky-cristina-barcelona/

Among other things, a great illustrator, in collaboration with eXgae,
has synthesized the discourse on net neutrality to make it easily
understood:
THE INTERNET WILL NOT BE ANOTHER TV
http://internetnoseraotratv.net/en/

To explain ACTA (the 2 best explainations for spanish countries):
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/acta/

To explain The Report 301:
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/amigo-norte-americano/

An then the missing panel just for pleasure:
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/la-ponencia-que-falta/

We hope that all these videos will be useful and that the poster will
invade the streets.

In the bottom of the mail, extense press release.

REPORT OF THE CIVIL RESPONSE TO THE SUMMIT OF MINISTERS OF CULTURE
FROM THE EU AND THEIR MEETING WITH THE Forum of Cultural Industries
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/

The parallel citizen summit, the (D') Evolution Summit – which was
organized in order to put forward specific proposals and urgent
demands on fundamental rights in Internet, and to give a real-time
account of what was being said inside the official congress – allowed
civil society to keep an eye on what was being said about its future.

More than *5000* people (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/d-evolution)
were able to connect to the live internet broadcast, and 700 social
networks worked spontaneously to ensure that the information
circulated immediately. Thousands of blogs helped to spread D’)
Evolution (http://www.google.es/search?q="(D')Evolution
+Summit"&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-
ES:official&client=firefox-a)...

The fictional character the Tracks Collector (
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/el-cobrador-del-track/
), an artist who tries to collect his legitimate royalties generated
by works licensed under Creative Commons, which the cultural
industries do not want to pay him, attracted more than *1000* fans in
a single day.
The (D’) Evolution action with Leo Bassi called "No pagaremos el pato/
We will Not Carry the Can for a cultural industry that does not want
to reinvent itself" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4eAc4uaaZk) was
the lead image in all the papers.

Every day, half an hour after the end of each session at the Forum on
Cultural Industries, we broadcast the edited highlights with live
commentary. The edit showing Eduard Punset directly addressing the
Spanish Minister, Ángeles González Sinde, which we posted online with
the title La Leccion de Punset/Punset's Lesson (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lefG4P0_jRk
) had 90,000 visits in the first two days, making it one of the *5
most-watched videos* on the net. It has now exceeded *150,000 visits*.

What the ministers and industries had come to Barcelona for, didn't go
as planned.
We were able to verify, live, that when they are watched over, our
rulers are not able to favour private interests with impunity, or to
implement simplistic control policies based on obsolete formulas.

1 – The speeches supporting the interests of lobbies start to get a
bit uncomfortable. What they usually do behind closed doors (and will
continue to do). turns against them when it is discussed in public and
has to contend with arguments.

This is why:
a) The grand speeches aimed at industry heavyweights, promising to get
rid of anything that is not controlled by the multinational industry
that is monopolizing and hindering the circulation of knowledge, have
been strongly contested by civil society which responded in real time,
by wise men like Punset and Bauwens, by a section of some industry
participants in the forum who are already working on new formats and
by a few of the cultural leaders from the 27 countries, who do not
always share the simplistic propaganda they are dealt. We saw how in
only 24 hours, the aggressive, manipulative speech with which the
spanish Ministery of culture opened the Forum, turned into ambiguous
and confuse speeches, in which nothing precise is said.

b) The EU Commission on Culture and Education decided not to present
the Green Book on Cultural Industries during the meeting in Barcelona,
as had been previously announced. Since February, they knew that the
meeting would be contested on copyright issues, and we were informed
that they would not present the conclusions in order to avoid
“affecting internal equilibrium”. So we know that the taliban
discourse is being discussed internally and we’re glad.

2 – Another phenomenon that was fascinating to watch is how, with an
absent gaze, grasping at a pre-digital imaginary in a world that has
already overtaken them in intelligence and capacity, they go around in
circles discussing representativity.
In Spain alone, right now, there are at least 300,000 people actively
and openly working to defend their rights in the digital environment:
"The Manifesto in Defense of Fundamental Rights on the Internet" (
http://wiki.manifiestointernet.org/wiki/Página_Principal<http://wiki.manifiestointernet.org/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_Principal>
) has been published and adopted by over 150,000 webs in Spanish, and
translated into 10 languages. Its page on FaceBook currently has more
than 230,000 members. RedSOStenible (http://red-sostenible.net/) has
the support of 27,400 web sites. Sinde's List (http://
lalistadesinde.net), a list of web sites that self-report themselves
for supposedly including illegal links, is now 1391 pages long.

But many figures from the ministeries say that the proposals coming
from civil society "don't represent anybody".
In the current political system there are 2 key things that can
irredeemably tip the balance one way or another. One of them, civil
society has no access to: Money. But civil society does have access to
the other thing. This second thing is precisely about
“representatitvity”, which has changed its meaning since the Internet
started to allow direct democracy: Votes. A person is only
representative if somebody feels represented by it.
The Internet represents itself, it speaks loud and clear. Each and
every one of the 300,000 people who protest do not represent, but
simply are, this mass movement.
There is no longer a need for vertical associations in order to make
ourselves heard. Passive delegation is over, whether they like it or
not. We elect people every four years so that they can work in the
service of the common good.

The Internet has a Memory and it will remember those who approve
unfare laws without the consensus of those who they "represent".
Citizens have asked to be heard, and put forward solutions (
http://fcforum.net
).

The Ministries has denied an audience, and ignored the solutions. But
the answer has been brought to us loud and clear by the ninja Van
Damme (Guillermo Corral Van Damme, General Director of Policy and
Cultural Industries): This is war. “We have to win the Internet war”.
Politicians declare war on their constituents. If they want war, they
will get war. A war where there may be no blood, but what is at stake
is the intellectual and economic devastation of digital development,
handed over to directors and entrepreneurs who defend obsolete
monopolies and don’t allow anything else to grow around it.

There is no doubt that this war will be won by civil society, just as
the earth was eventually proven to be round and women ended up winning
the vote. The question is when, and how much suffering and
obscurantism we will be able to avoid.

Fine. And we continue.
An other, essential appointment, in Granada, where the EU Ministers of
Telecommunications and the Information Society will meet. We will be
there, because THE INTERNET WILL NOT BE ANOTHER TV (
http://internetnoseraotratv.net/en/
)

Here some press realease of the event:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Vigilantes/ministros/elpepucul/20100329elpeputec_4/Tes
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Punset/Hay/tendencia/considerar/Internet/propiedad/Estado/tenemos/evitar/elpeputec/20100330elpeputec_9/Tes
http://www.lavanguardia.es/cultura/noticias/20100329/53898125802/barcelona-campo-de-batalla-digital.html
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/estrella/copyright/elpepicul/20100330elpepicul_2/Tes
http://www.publico.es/culturas/303643/sinde
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=700835&idseccio_PK=1009
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/noticias/accion/comun/elpepicul/20100331elpepicul_1/Tes
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/pais.jpg
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/publico.jpg
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/665818/0/leo/bassi/internet/
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=700611&idseccio_PK=1013
http://www.europapress.es/catalunya/noticia-alternativa-foro-industrias-culturales-ve-obsoleto-no-tener-cuenta-internet-20100329155844.html
http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100329/punset-no-se-intente-controlar-internet-como-se-hizo-mujeres/325791.shtml
http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/3709217/protestes-control-dinternet-tanquen-concert-fossar-moreres.html
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/contracumbre/creadores/exige/nuevos/modelos/gestion/elpepicul/20100330elpepicul_1/Tes
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Compartir/archivos/crimen/elpepicul/20100330elpepicul_4/Tes
http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=329471
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=103255
http://noticias.com/leo-bassi-contra-el-control-de-internet.198604

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