Workshops

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 2016

Hacking Brussels

On 21 September the European Commission proposed a copyright reform. Unfortunately, the text contains many worrying parts (ancillary copyright, compulsory content filtering for user-generated content) and little benefits for regular users (limited text and data mining, no Freedom of Panorama). Now is the time to ask the European Parliament to fix the reform. We need to get in touch with the elected members and convince them to propose and vote for improvements. Let’s come together and work on our approach and messaging together!
When and where: Thursday, October 27th, 10AM – 12AM, Collegium Civitas, room 1021 (PKiN 10th floor)
Moderator: Dimitar Dimitrov (Wikimedia)
Basic knowledge of copyright law issues should be the minimum.
Audience: The workshop should be interesting to anyone who wants to get involved in European Union decision making, whose work would require contacting (email, telephone, face-to-face meetings) Members of the European Parliament.

Methods and constraints for including evidence in IP lawmaking

This workshop seeks to explore the potential and pitfalls of adopting an evidence-based lawmaking approach in intellectual property (IP). It examines questions such as:
What constitutes sound evidence for IP lawmaking?
What is required in terms of methodology?
Who should bear the burden of proof?
How to deal with conflicting sets of evidence?
What if evidence does not fit (or perhaps even contradicts) legal-theoretical principles or rationales for IP protection?
What (minimum) level of evidence is required to launch legislative activity (agenda-setting) and/or to adopt legislation (passing laws)?
The idea is to get a better understanding of what evidence-based lawmaking requires and to assess how realistic it is to assume or expect that new IP law must, on principle, always be based on sound (empirical) evidence. In this workshop, participants will work together to explore the values and limitations of adopting an evidence-based lawmaking approach in the field of IP.
When and where: Thursday, October 27th, 10AM – 12AM, Collegium Civitas, room 1222 (PKiN 12th floor)
Moderator: Stef van Gompel (IViR)
Basic knowledge of copyright law issues should be the minimum.
Audience: law and policymakers; stakeholder groups from industry/creators/users; academics; anyone interested in evidence-based lawmaking

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH, 2016

Legal aspects of using research data in the age of Open Data

During the workshop we will use real-life examples of research data from participants’ projects to analyse and discuss legal issues arising when preparing data to Open Access so that anyone can use them in their own work. This is a BYOD (Bring Your Own Data!) workshop – when registering please describe the data that you wish to discuss with others. We will pick the most interesting submissions and use them as case studies during the workshop.
When and Where: Friday, October 28th, 10 AM – 12 AM, Collegium Civitas, room 1021 (PKiN 10th floor)
Moderators: Marta Hoffman-Sommer, Krzysztof Siewicz (ICM UW)
Audience: Participation in the workshop is based on merit. We ask you to describe the data set you wish to work on in the registration form. The workshop should be interesting mainly for academics and people dealing with data mining and interested in open data procedures.

The Lurker and the politics of knowledge in data culture

In this workshop, I will propose to explore the conceptual persona of the lurker. Lurker is a conceptual persona that acts as a sage of the digital age, constructing a form of “private” knowledge. Rarely participating, she maps the terrain in which she is operating acquiring volumes of ethnographic observation and personal information in her head and at her fingertips. The acquisition of this knowledge is affective and aesthetic and its value is new. A mode of knowing and a method of being a lurker is about the poiesis of self and power in digital networks. Today, it is the algorithms and data analytics that lurk, taking on the mode of knowing developed by the lurker. Apart from total data surveillance, this very specific mode of knowledge becomes a form of governance, posing questions, such as: What is its framework for truth production? How can claims be made and sustained if they are based on correlation rather than causality? What kind of knowledge is behind new techniques of governance associated with data analytics?
When and where: Friday, October 28th, 12:00 – 14:00, Collegium Civitas, room 1021 (PKiN 10th floor)
Moderator: Olga Goriunova (University of London)
Audience: No prior knowledge required. The workshop will offer a possibility for a conceptual and creative discussion of the practice of lurking as born in the 1990s and algorithmic lurking with machine learning and its specific mode of knowledge at its heart.

Please fill in the registration form.