. . I have two public speaking gigs lined up for this upcoming weekend. On Saturday on the Open Source Days conference in Copenhagen, where I also spoke last year. This year I'll give a talk titled 'Open Government Data: What, why, how?' (16.30 on the Ernst & Young stage) as well as meetup up […] Read More…
. This weekend I spent in the good company of old friends, with whom I travelled to Prague for a long weekend of relaxation and to attend the Coldplay concert there. Good times and what a show. We're talking U2 stage production scale here - and in Chris Martin, the lead singer, an iconic performer. […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Creative Commons, Helsinki, Music, Open culture, Talks, Travel
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Tagged Coldplay, Helsinki, OK Festival, OKFN, Open Knowledge Foundation, Prag
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Next week I'll be heading to Berlin for a few days to attend the enormous Campus Party Europe Conference, the world's largest technology fest with over 600 speakers - that takes place in the former city airport Tempelhof. I'll be giving a talk about my record label Uhrlaut as well as participating in two discussions […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Aalborg University, Berlin, Copyright, Networking, Open culture, Talks, Travel, Uhrlaut
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Tagged Berlin, Campus Party Europe, conference, CPeurope, digital art, Germany, intellectual property, Tempelhof
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People attending some of my recent talks have been kind enough to feedback online with their impression of the sessions - which I really appreciate. After my talk at MultimediaDays at Aarhus Business Academy last week, Jeanne Bødker Nissen wrote this one on the Multimediedesigner blog: Spændende oplæg om Creative Commons (in Danish) Also Berit […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Creative Commons, Interviews, Media, Music, Open culture, Platform4, Press, Sharing, Uhrlaut
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Tagged Aarhus Business Academy, Danmarks Radio, DR, free music, KODA, LOC, MultiMediaDays, music business, Politiken, VIBE
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As official agent for the Shareplay initiative I'll be hosting the first so-called Shareplay Insights event in Aalborg today. The event is a TED-Talk-like session with three speakers from the academic/business worlds in combination, who will be giving short 15-minute talks that are recorded an subsequently released under a Creative Commons license. The lineup is […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Aalborg, Cross media, Shareplay, Technology
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Tagged Aalborg, Biffen, Christian Kirk Muff, cross media, Shareplay, Sune Klok Gudiksen, Tem Frank Andersen, transmedia
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Tonight I am giving my Intro to Creative Commons talk in Open Space Aarhus (OSAA), a vibrant hackspace community in Denmark's second largest city, Aarhus. This will be my first visit there, and as being part of the Platform4/FormuLab/Hal9k hack-communities I am quite curious to see the place. If you're in the city, join us! […] Read More…
The talk about open culture and Creative Commons that I did at the IT University earlier this month was recorded on video and has now been put online. In case you want to check it out, see below. The talk about open culture and Creative Commons that I did at the IT University earlier this […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Activism, Copenhagen, Copyright, Creative Commons, Open culture, Open web, Talks, Technology
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Tagged Christian Villum, Creative Commons, IT University Copenhagen, ITU, open culture
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I just did a talk in front of a nice and engaged audience of students and teachers at Aarhus Business Academy (Aarhus Erhvervsakademi) at the MultiMediaDays conference. The talk was a combination of general introduction to Creative Commons and a case-presentation of my record label Uhrlaut/Urlyd and our use of open licensing to create a […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Aarhus, Activism, Copyright, Creative Commons, Open culture, Sharing, Talks, Technology
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Tagged Aarhus, Creative Commons, digital, erhvervsakademiet, MultiMediaDays
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Today I'll be giving a talk at the Move Fast Break Things conference on the IT University of Copenhagen alongside ao. prolific author and open source proponent Michel Bauwens. Quite an honour to share the stage with him. Afterwards I'll head to the Danish parliament to attend the Analyzing the Syrian Conflict seminar alongside a […] Read More…
Today I'll be doing an Urlyd presentation at the first ever open culture event in the history of the Faroe Islands. As a part of the event, which is hosted by all the CC chapters in Scandinavia in collaboration with the Cloudberry Project, I'll be summarizing our label business model using CC-licenses and sharing as […] Read More…