Knowledge creation and communication has undergone important changes during the last decade. The capacities built through the New Information and Communication Technologies (NICTs) and Web 2.0 make participation and joint production easier. This new reality sets up new interaction forms with information and new ways of knowledge production, and modifies linear approximation to its construction, towards more elaborate ways and more complex processes. This environment compels us to review our approach to copyright, in order to understand how we make, create and reuse culture nowadays and how this affects day-to-day relationships, particularly in scientific and educational environments in which knowledge circulation is a basic condition for knowledge generation.
In response to these new approaches, we have witnessed a global movement towards the establishment of reference frames for the optimisation of research results and educational materials access and reuse processes, especially when they are publicly funded. This has occurred through open access platforms, new publication tools and ingenious models of copyright management strategically designed for individuals as well as institutions.
Copyright is no longer a subject exclusive to lawyers; it is no longer restricted to the scenario of cultural products commercialisation; it does not only respond to the artists’ remuneration concerns. This is why scholars, professors, scientists and information and knowledge administrators’ responsibility in the construction of their own legal culture gain a new and renewed dimension.
The seminar will take place n February 4-5, 2009, at Colombia’s National University. The agenda will cover three central subjects (science, arts and education) all interconnected by the concern of accessing knowledge.
In the mornings it will have a vertical structure. Two simultaneous daily conferences will be given on four subjects: information administration, virtual education, arts or science. Presentation and socialization of national, Latin American and international experiences will be combined, with a merely educational purpose. In the afternoons four workshops will take place everyday on subjects derived from the morning sessions in which all participants will help to build knowledge and to draw a diagnosis of the cultural sector in relation to the proposed subjects, with the purpose of collecting data and experiences useful to build a projection for the future.
The seminar will not have an registration fee. In the mornings it will be open to the general public and in the afternoons working groups will gather. At http://www.virtual.unal.edu.co/acceso2.0/index.html you can find the registration form.