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World's Fair Use Day
MAY 4, 2012
WASHINGTON D.C.
World's Fair Use Day is an annual, day-long celebration of fair use, creativity and remix culture, brought to you by Public Knowledge.
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MAY 4, 2012
WASHINGTON D.C.
World's Fair Use Day is an annual, day-long celebration of fair use, creativity and remix culture, brought to you by Public Knowledge.
→ Schedule
→ Location
→ RSVP
→ Speakers
→ Contact
Brought to you by:
FYI: Here is how WFUD 2011 attendees self-identified, based on the choices available on our RSVP form. As tends to be the case here in Washington, the wonks walked away victorious.
WFUD 2011 | I Did it for the Lulz: Fair Use and Internet Humor
WFUD 2011 | Keynote: DJ /rupture
WFUD 2011 | This is the Remix: Fair Use in Hip-Hop Culture
WFUD 2011 | Keynote: Aram Sinnreich, Rutgers University
WFUD 2011 | Katz Rules Everything Around Me: Visual Art and Fair Use
WFUD 2011 | Playing Fair: Remix in the Gaming Community
WFUD 2011 | Keynote: Maria Pallante, Acting Register of Copyrights
World’s Fair Use Day 2011 | Introduction | Gigi B. Sohn, President, Public Knowledge
Here are a few photos highlighting our amazing panelists and speakers who came to DC to celebrate creativity, fair use, and remix culture. For those who came to the conference or watched the livestream, we hope that the second annual World’s Fair Use Day was as educational as it was entertaining.
Too see more, here’s the public link to the Facebook photo album.
World’s Fair Use Day is Tomorrow!
World’s Fair Use Day 2011 kicks off tomorrow starting at 9:30am (doors open at 9am)! If you’re attending the event in person, click over to the schedule and location pages for logistical information and be sure to RSVP if you haven’t already. If you can’t make it to D.C. for the event, click here for the livestream (starts at 9:45am tomorrow) and here to download the official WFUD program (PDF). And whether you’re attending in person or following along at home, be sure to contribute to the Twitter backchannel at #WFUD. See you all tomorrow!
Stop the presses! We’re announcing one final panelist for World’s Fair Use Day: the one, the only, Kenyatta Cheese. If you know a thing or two about Internet memes and web culture, you’ve likely seen “Know Your Meme,” the groundbreaking meme database that he co-created and hosted; if you don’t, you’re about to get taken to school.
Kenyatta Cheese researches and fosters media culture and technology. He is probably best known for co-creating the web series and internet meme database Know Your Meme, often cited as the go to resource for understanding web culture. Kenyatta is often called upon to comment on the state and meaning of internet culture by the likes of NPR, MSNBC, The New York Times, and the parents of close friends. In previous iterations he has worked with the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, and the online television network Rocketboom.
(Kenyatta Cheese photo by Diana Levine)
We’re very excited to announce our third keynote speaker: Maria Pallante, Acting Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress. In her role as the Acting Register of Copyrights, Maria oversees the registration, policy and other functions of the Copyright Office. In addition to her expertise in copyright law, Maria has a background in writing and visual art, having worked at the Guggenheim Museums and the Authors Guild prior to joining the Library of Congress.
Maria Pallante was appointed Acting Register of Copyrights for the United States effective January 1, 2011. She will serve on an interim basis until the next Register is named and assumes the duties of the position.
Maria is on leave from the Office of the Librarian of Congress, where she has served as Senior Advisor to the Librarian since October 2010. She previously held two senior positions in the U.S. Copyright Office, serving as Associate Register (policy and international affairs) and Deputy General Counsel, respectively, from January 2007 to October 2010.
From 1999-2007, Maria was intellectual property counsel and director of licensing for the worldwide Guggenheim Museums, where she advised on programmatic and business initiatives related to worldwide publishing, product development and branding; the acquisition and exhibition of contemporary art; and the operation of overseas affiliates and licensees. Earlier in her career, she was in private practice in Washington, DC and on the staff of two authors’ organizations in New York, serving first as Assistant Director of the Authors Guild, Inc. and then as Executive Director of the National Writers Union, in each case working on copyright, publishing transactions and freedom of expression issues.
Maria has chaired and served on numerous professional committees, has testified before Congress, and delivered numerous lectures and presentations in the United States and abroad.
We’re pleased to announce a last-minute addition to our panel on visual art: Dan Lynch of Negativland. In addition to producing artwork for the pioneering audio collage band, Lynch has distinguished himself as a visual artist whose works blur the lines between digital reappropriation and analog creation. At World’s Fair Use Day we’ll be showing Dan’s latest piece, “The Volcano Society,” which uses images culled from Google Image Search to produce four large collages that masquerade as paintings.
Dan began to take art seriously in 1970 when he won second place the American Automobile Association’s traffic safety poster contest in second grade. Upon winning a $75 savings bond, he knew that he wanted to pursue art.
Dan studied architectural design at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Thereafter, he worked in architecture and became immersed in the arcane computer graphics programs of the 1980s that were used within the profession. He eventually put architecture aside and has been an art director since 1991.
Dan is an avid photographer, but sees it as a means to an end. Before digital image editing, he would manipulate his photos any way he could. His work consists of digital montages and paintings that are printed on canvas, which are further painted to completion.
Dan believes that creative work is taken from borrowings that are changed—whether they spring out of one’s mind with brush in hand, are captured behind the lens, or come from Google Image Search. He believes it is the rearrangement and presentation of the world as we find it that creates new art.
Dan has been a satellite member of Negativland since 1993. He has collaborated with them on the visual side of their work, including book cover art, package design, illustration, photography and creative brainstorming.
