Copyright killed the video star from Kicks for Free on Vimeo.

They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine and new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see

Oh-a oh. You might have heard of the new Buma/Stemra law called Fair Play. They will charge the whole Dutch web community for embedding musicclips. Let’s try to push the limits of this law. The web and the new economy are about multiplying information. Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail it, upgrade it.

Let’s see how far freedom of information goes. Please film the copy of the copy of the Bubbles video above and post the video on your blog with this text underneath it. Your blogreaders should do the same and together we form a chain of information. Let’s create a loophole of information and find out when copyright gets killed because you cannot hear which song is in the video anymore.

Let’s resist the new law that would kill new forms of creativity. Let’s question the question of public space and fair use. Technologic. Technologic!

via Incubate Blog.

Today Dutch copyright organization Buma launched the Fair Play license. They charge blogs for embedding. It’s like calling Vinnie Jones an elegant soccer star. Read more on it here. This new law would mean the death of blogs like this. Of blogs that promote culture and don’t make any money out of it. We hope Buma won’t send us a bill. We’ve posted 30 clips of loonwerkbedrijf Buma. Just because it’s stupid. Let’s all post 30 posts of this stupid video. Just to say this kind of Fair Play deserves a red card.

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Bijgespijkerd posted the first two videos about the Incubate Innovation Lecture with the keynote speech by Andrew Keen. If you want to see the discussion that happened afterwards, just see the other three vids here.

Keynote speech Andrew Keen at Incubate 2009 (part 1 of 5) from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

Keynote speech Andrew Keen at Incubate 2009 (part 2 of 5) from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

Old versus new cultural radicalism from andrewkeen on Vimeo.

Amelia Andersdotter of Sweden’s Pirate Party from andrewkeen on Vimeo.

Dutch Pirates from andrewkeen on Vimeo.

Last week Andrew Keen did his Incubate Innovation Lecture. It was great. Later this week we’ll post the recordings. Keen also interviewed some people. Check them right here.

Tomorrow we’ll be doing a little presentation for the Dutch Theatre and Festival Directors, called VSCD at Zeeland Nazomer Festival. Gonna be a nice one. Find out more on this event right here.

Yesterday Andrew Keen wrote an essay on why artists are poor. Ernesto Priego gave a very good reaction on it. The outline is:

1. Artists cannot expect to survive in the 21st century without doing their own promotion (this means also giving work for free).

(10 is for you to fill out, as well as all the other following points!)
Of course you can read the whole article here.

It’s great to see that your work has actual effect in the real world. We’ve invited Andrew Keen to do a keynote on the role of cultural institutions in the digital age. We’ve also asked Hans Abbing for the panel. He is an economist, artist and sociologist. He is professor Emeritus in Art-Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Abbing published several books on these subjects, among which Why are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts and Van Hoge naar Nieuwe Kunst. Yesterday Keen wrote an essay for The Daily Telegraph. It’s called Why Are Artists Poor. Read it here. Coincidence?

Hello, who are you?
My name is Henk-Frits Verkerk and I work for Sports Alliance Ltd. We help footballclubs to get to know and interact with their supporters.

So what’s keeping you busy lately?
For Vitesse Arnhem we have helped to create a community website which will allow supporters to get involved with the club in different ways. The community site is not a separate on-line entity but it is integrated with all club systems and processes. So if you are a seasonticketholder, you get access to the seasonticketholder community with all your details.
Depending
on the community they chose to participate in supporters can voice their opinions, get involved in managing the team through a football game and they can participate in the decisonmaking in the club.

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Andrew Keen is a pioneering Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founding Audiocafe.com in 1995 and building it into a well-known first generation Internet music company. Then on a conference of internet entrepreneurs in 2004, mr. Keen realized that there was a dark side to the Utopian ideas about democratization of culture shared by the other participants in the conference. He decided to write a book about this negative impact of web 2.0 on journalism and culture. The Cult of the Amateur became an international bestseller and earned mr. Keen the nickname ‘The Antichrist of Silicon Valley’. He has written for many other publications including The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Guardian, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, Prospect, Fast Company and Entertainment Weekly. Currently he is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph.

In his keynote, mr. Keen will present a follow up to his book: how can cultural organizations not only arm themselves against the cult of the amateur, but even use modern technology to their advantage. How can a museum, a theater or a festival not only maintain its role as a gatekeeper, but even strengthen it? And what can the artists themselves do to distinguish themselves in the pandemonium that is the internet?

A few weeks before the lecture De Groene Amsterdammer will publish an essay by mr. Keen based on his keynote. After mr. Keen’s keynote lecture, an discussion between an international panel of experts from the fields of arts, economy and politics will take place. The panelists in the discussion are Konrad Boehmer, Hans Abbing, Amelia Andersdotter and Leyland James Kirby.

Konrad Boehmer (Berlin, 1941) is an international acclaimed composer, the director of the Institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and chairman of the board of copyright association Buma/ Stemra.

Hans Abbing (Utrecht, 1946) is an economist, artist and sociologist. He is professor Emeritus in Art-Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He published several books on these subjects, among which Why are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts and Van Hoge naar Nieuwe Kunst.

Amelia Andersdotter (Enköping, 1987) holds a Lisbon seat in the European parliament for the Swedish Pirate Party, that campaigned on a platform of drastic copyright revision.

James Kirby (Edgeley, 1974) is one of the UK’s leading electronic artists. He gained notierity ‘hacking’ other artists music under the V/VM alias. At Incubate 2009, mr. Kirby will perform as The Caretaker. He will also curate the Putting the Arts back into Darts event, where art students will discuss issues about copyright, creative commons and original vs. copied works.

The discussion will be moderated by Xandra Schutte, editor-in-chief of De Groene Amsterdammer magazine. The Incubate Innovation Lecture 2009 will take place in De NWE Vorst on Friday September 18th at 2 p.m. Buy your tickets here.

Why are most corporate blogs failing and why do the few succeed? There are some rules of thumb on how to activate your blog. Right here Smashing Magazine gives you some good advice on corporate blogging.