Ekalavyas Secret Library

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• Ekalavyas Secret Library
• Tales from the I-Commons
• (Pirated Copy)
• Lawrence Liang
• Alternative Law Forum/ CC-India

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Recalling an Archer named Ekalavya
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From an Archer to an Avenging Swordswoman
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Green You bitch, I need to know if you will
gonna starting more shit around my baby
girl. The Bride You can relax for now, Im
not going to murder you in front of your child,
ok? Green I guess you are more rational than
Bill let me to believe in you are capable
of. The Bride Its mercy, compassion, and
forgiveness that I lack, not rationality.
Green You bitch, never want to hurt my
daughter.
The Bride Can we have a chat? I wont hurt your
child. Green I cant believe you have such a
temper.
The Bride Thats my way, passion not
nationality.
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Lost in Translation

• Translating the Commons into Global experiences
  marked by massive differences in social, economic
  and technological development
• Moving away from Content alone and paying
  careful attention to conditions of cultural and
  knowledge production
• Listening to distorted sounds and degraded
  images

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The Software and the Hardware of Knowledge and
Culture
Infrastructure of the Commons
Focus of Free Culture Movements have been on the
Software, taking for granted the Hardware
How do we think of the Commons in the context of
very sharp social and economic inequalities?
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• Bangalore- The Silicon valley of India with
  30,000 Dollar Denominated Millionaires

And 727 Slums
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The Global Information City of IP Fantasies
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The Other Information City
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Transformation of the Older Illegal City by the
World of New Media Possibilities
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Recycled and Pirate Modernities
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• The World of the Pirate Modern Creates the
  Infrastructure of the Secret Libraries of the
  Contemporary

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But we are told that A War Against Terrorism has
been declared
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Members of the Al Qaeeda
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• This world of the electronic everyday has thus
  far been narrated in terms of criminality and
  illegality

definitions belongto the definers-not the
defined Toni Morrison
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Rethinking the History of the Commons, Piracy and
Dispossession

• Piracy and the Making of the Commons

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Dispossession and the Contemporary

• What happens to those who fall of the official
  maps of global modernity, knowledge society and
  even the global commons?
• How do we move from an ICommons to a more
  inclusive WeCommons which does not just look at
  what Piracy is but also what piracy does

Moving from the Author to the Social Context of
Cultural Circulation and Production
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Infrastructure and Creativity

• A Two KM Stretch called Free School Street
• Anurag Kashyap at Launch of CC-India
• Secret Libraries that defy the artificial laws of
  scarcity and return us to the the world of the
  Copia

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I Commons and the Grey Commons

• What the Free Culture movement and CC did was to
  shift the discursive terms of the debate, and by
  looking at other kinds of values that are central
  to the debate on IP, it changed the terms of the
  debate

It replaced the language of criminality with
one of curiosity, the language of piracy with
creativity and illegality with subjectivity
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Lets freeze for the moment on the question of
legality and the evil generally associated with
the word piracy and pay attention to the history
of dispossession that accompanies the making of
new regimes of property, and start looking for
stories of sharing cultures that exists within
the shadows of the legal commons
Maana ke yeh Kitaab Aapke Hain, par Is kitaab ke
Parchaaiyan kiske Hain?
Sharing not as a privilege, but as a condition of
survival.. Electricity, Water, Food, Knowledge,
Culture
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When Tinkering Cultures meet the world of
Recycling, Innovation and Aspiration
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