Glossary

Revisit Reuse

Revisit Reuse was a small-scale exhibition and two day worksession that took place in Brussels, May 2024. It brought together questions and provocations addressing universalisms in Free Culture and Open Access and to build resources for collective practices of reuse. How to deal with issues of cultural appropriation, power differences and the limits of conventional citation and acknowledgment?

The space and the exhibition were designed in collaboration with artist Flo*Souad Benaddi and included a series of prompts by ​​​​​​Erri Ammonita, Bye Bye Binary, Séverine Dusollier, Andrea Francke, Gary Hall, Jennifer Hayashida, Cathryn Klasto, Nkule Mabaso, Nicolas Malevé, Dubravka Sekulić, Winnie Soon, Christopher Ba Thi Nguyen, Marloes de Valk and Stephen Wright. We also included a collection of cases that showed the complexities of reuse, and a library of materials published under the Collective Conditions for Reuse (CC4r), in collaboration with Constant. Flo*Souad Benaddi, Clara Bougon, Castillo, Sarah Magnan, Chae Kim, Cathryn Klasto, Gerrie van Noord, Femke Snelting, Litó Walkey, Eva Weinmayr took part in the worksession.

Limits to Openness Reading Group

2023 "Limits to Openess"

Collective Conditions for reuse (CC4r)

Collective Conditions for reuse (CC4r) is a collectively written document that can be included in any publication as a way to reorient conventional copyright. It is based on the Free Art License (FAL), but reformulates the position of the author as an individual, to recognize that authorship is "situated in social and historical conditions and that there may be reasons to refrain from release and re-use". In an important deviation from FAL and other Free Culture licenses, it asks reusers to "take into account that the defaults of openness and transparency have different consequences in different contexts” and introduces the possibility of not-sharing.

https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html

Free Art Licence

The Free Art License is a Free Culture license created in 2000 in France, based on contributions from artists and legal scholars to the mailing list copyleft_attitude@april.org, including Melanie Clément-Fontaine, David Geraud, Isabelle Vodjdani, and Antoine Moreau.

This particular license has been an inspiring project because, in contrast with more mainstream projects such as Creative Commons, FAL maintains its enthusiasm for F/LOSS ideology and reformulates the interrelated mechanisms of “use, copy, distribute, transform, and prohibition of exclusive appropriation” in its own poetic way. The writing of this license and the collective practicing of its implications are part of an ongoing artistic project with explicit anti-capitalist politics.

https://artlibre.org/

Authors of the Future

Authors of the Future (Brussels, 2019) was a studyday organised by Constant. With contributions from Severine Dusollier (SciencesPo, Paris), Aymeric Mansoux (XPUB, Rotterdam), Eva Weinmayr (Pirate Library/And-And Publishing, London) and Daniel Blanga Gubbay (KFDA, Brussels) it made a start with articulating and addressing some of the problems with and omissions in Free Culture licenses. Together with a group of participants, we wondered if we could invent licences that are based on collective creative practices, in which cooperation between machine and biological authors, need not be an exception. How could attribution be a form of situated genealogy, rather than accounting for heritage through listing names of contributing individuals? In what way can we limit predatory practices without blocking the generative potential of Free Culture? What would a decolonial and feminist license look like, and in what way could we propose entangled notions of authorship? Or perhaps we should think of very different strategies?

https://constantvzw.org/site/Authors-of-the-future-Re-imagining-Copyleft.html

First Times Do Not Exist

https://www.goteborgslitteraturhus.se/event/first-times-do-not-exist/