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Index at Hay: Copyright, Copyleft and Artistic Freedom in the Information Age: Who Owns the Words?

Index on Censorship hosts a discussion on artistic ownership at the UK’s biggest literary festival.

Published: May 26, 2010

When: Sunday, 6. June 2010 13.00
To: Sunday, 6. June 2010
Where: Hay-on-Wye, Wales, Elmley Foundation Dream Stage,
Host: Index on Censorship, Hay Festival
More info: www.indexoncensorship.org/category/events/

David Shields, John Sutherland, Feargal Sharkey, Sarah Hunter, and Claire Armitstead.

The author of the seminal manifesto Reality Hunger joins critics and Google’s policy chief to debate who owns the music, the images, the stories and touchstones of our culture? The individual artists, the distributing corporations, or the consumers who purchase it?
In association Penguin Books.

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