This week in Lublin
COPYRIGHT? COPYLEFT?
at Cafe-Bookshop Spółdzielnia
ul. Peowiaków 11
The aim of the event is to promote the idea of open culture and to acquaint with the term "some rights reserved", promoted by the organisation Creative Commons. The culture of "all rights reserved" makes no sense in a world where, thanks to modern technology, just about anyone can be a creator. The eponymous 'Copyleft' can be treated as a challenge to traditionally understood copyright, although free culture does not mean culture without copyright. "[J]ust as a free market is perverted if its property becomes feudal, so too can a free culture be queered by extremism in the property rights that define it." (Lawrence Lessing, Free Culture [preface]).
7th June (Tue), 8 p.m. Good Copy, Bad Copy
A documentary about copyright in the era of the Internet, when illegal exchange of files is a fact, the sales of CDs are falling dramatically, and the latest movies can be downloaded from the Net before they are screened in cinemas. It's about times when the law lags behind technology, and film and record companies are considering new models of distribution; when it's necessary to consider whether copyright, which was intended for artists' protection, is not turning against them. http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/
8th June (Weds), 8 p.m. RIP!: A Remix Manifesto
Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride. http://films.nfb.ca/rip-a-remix-manifesto/
9th June (Thu), 6 p.m. Steal this Film
The internet service The Pirate Bay was created as an initiative to fight for copyright change. A portal propagating exchange of files between the internauts suddenly became a thorn in the side of the entertainment industry and gave rise to an international discussion concerning piracy, which involved also the World Trade Organisation. The Pirate Bay's example triggered in the director Jamie King a reflection on the phenomenon of copyright violation in cyberspace. His document Steal this Film addresses not just the dangers this phenomenon holds for the showbusiness
but also its positive results. http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part1/
8 p.m. Nasty Old People
The protagonist is Mette, a member of a neo-Nazi gang. Her day job is taking care of four elderly people who are only waiting to die. Thanks to them, her life becomes a game in which she makes the rules. One day she discovers that there is something wrong with her life, and, step by step, with the help of the elderly people, she begins to create her own world... http://nastyoldpeople.org/
It's a Swedish film released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike).
all events: admission FREE
CHINA DAYS
selected events
6th June
6 p.m. Dragon Parade from UMCS Political Science Dpt, Plac Litewski 3, towards the UMCS campus
8 p.m. screenings of Chinese films at Chatka Żaka, ul. Radziszewskeigpo 16
after the films - traditional Chinese lanterns (if the weather permits)
7th June
from 12 noon - presentation of martial arts techniques at Chatka Żaka
admission FREE
CINEMA
Bajka Cinema: Cheap Mondays (10 PLN)
ul. Radziszewskiego 8
6.15 p.m. The Way Back
dir. Peter Weir (USA 2010)
st. Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan and Jim Sturgess
A war drama about a group of prisoners who escape from a Siberian Gulag camp during World War II.
Films at Tektura
Tektura, ul. Wieniawska 15a
8th June (Weds), 8 p.m. Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days)
dir. Marc Rothemund (Germany 2005)
A dramatisation of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose. Arrested by the Gestapo, her fate altready sealed, the young university student (beautifully played by the wonderful Julia Jentsch) is an epitome of passion, dignity and humanity.
admission FREE
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Polish film actresses from Pola Negri to Karolina Gruszka
Photographs by acclaimed Polish photographers such as Zofia Nasierowska or Edward Hartwig, mounted on frames and lit from the inside which makes the exhibition particulary attractive after dusk.
captions are both in Polish and English
Plac Łokietka (next to the City Hall)
until 15th June
CONCERT
10th June, 8 p.m. Jam the Club Tour 2011: Stop Mi! and Miss Polski
Graffiti, ul. Aleja Piłsudskeigo 13
Stop Mi! www.myspace.com/stopmi
Miss Polski www.myspace.com/misspolski
admission 10/15 PLN
