(Click for larger image!)RECEPTION: Wow so that's Dubrovnik! A
Second Life resident scans the receiving tables at the iCommons Summit
2007 in Second Life. |
(Click for larger image!)VIDEO: "Good Copy Bad Copy" by
Ralf Christensen, Andreas Johsen, and Henrik
Moltke is screened in world. The movie documents the status of copyright
and culture. |
(Click for larger image!)RECEPTION: Get a free tee and learn
Croatian - what more could a visitor ask for?! |
(Click for larger image!)EVENT: Attendees gather 'round SL Live
Musician Smily Raymaker (in wings and gown) as she sings folk and blues
with acoustic guitar. |
(Click for larger image!)EVENT: Close up of Smily showing her
avatar and wings. |
(Click for larger image!)EVENT: SL attendees mix it up at the
mixer, psyched by the Sneak Preview and ready for the first day
keynotes. |
(Click for larger image!)ART: The iCommons Art Diagram "Art
Happens Here!" explodes in little red particle "iC's" (for iCommons). |
(Click for larger image!)EVENT: In the background Good Copy Bad
Copy continues to screen while conference visitors party. Shown is the
iCommons in Second Life "Event Court", one of four exhibition spaces in
the complex. |
(Click for larger image!) osmphotoPROUD MOMENT occurs as Janford Flax in iCommons in Second Life watches
her business partner and spouse, John Buckman, in iCommons in Real Life.
Flax (real life Jan Hanford) and Buckman are co-founders of the music
company, Magnatune, the first company to license music online. |
CORY, YOU LOOK MARRVELLOUS! The sharp-looking avi in blue and black is
Cory Linden, Chief Technology Officer of Linden Lab. And above him is
ALSO Cory Linden, visible on vid stream simulcast from Croatia. Yes, RL
Cory IS looking at his laptop, admiring SL Cory o..O) |
LIVE MUSICIAN Kurt Jano warms up the crowd before the Lawrence Lessig
Keynote Lecture at the iCommons Summit 2007 in Second Life. Jano (real
life Kurt Bestor), is a versatile virtuoso performing Vocals Piano,
Guitar, Harmonica, and Trumpet (although, as he says, "not all at
once!"). |
CONFERENCES ARE FUN! Jonathan Zittrais of Oxford University wows the
crowd AND Heather Ford of iCommons, discussing the whys and
wherefores of commons licensing. Who knew licensing was such fun?! |
ATTRIBUTE THIS! Lawrence Lessig speaks on 10 years of bringing about the
Creative Commons organization and licensing system to allow original
work to be shared more broadly by internet. "Attribution 3.0" is an
example of a CC license. |
LOOK GOOD, FEEL GOOD! DJ Danton Thirroul spins show tunes, jazz and
requests to help happy but tired iCommons SL attendees "wind down" after
a day full of Keynotes and Exhibits. |
PRODUCTION TEAMS REWL! Anna Annenberg, Echo Cooke, and Smily Raymaker
proudly watch conference proceedings they helped produce. Annenberg is a
Project Manager for the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. Cooke is a
certified Live Event Hostess for PickSL. Raymaker is a popular SL Live
Musician. |
PROUD TO BE USC! That's Anna Annenberg on simulcast screen on the left,
next to Jean Linden on the right. Both are proud products of the USC
Annenberg School for Communication. Jean produced SL simulcasts for USC
while a student, and now works for Linden Lab on International
Initiatives. Below in front is Jean Linden in avi form. |
THE MAN! Wikipedian and Wikipedia Founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales ponders a
reply to a question from a Second Life resident at the "panel on the
future of open education." |
IS IT REAL or is it virtual? Second Life Residents on Ilha de
Intercambio Sim mill around waiting for yet another iCommons Summit 2007
panel to start in Revelin Meeting Room 1, Dubrovnik, Croatia. |
SJ KLEIN describes the One Laptop Per Child Project. A savvy SL resident
promptly asked Cory Linden, also on the panel, "would Second Life run on
the laptop Mr. Klein describes." Answer? "Um.. no.. but soon!" |
iCOMMONS CHAIR Ronaldo Lemos glances askance at one of his panelists off
screen, while panelist James Boyle beams at a slide. The live video feed
did move to show SL residents what Boyle was enjoying ;). |
YOCHAI BENKLER of Yale Law School belts out key points to iCommons
Summit attendees about how information technology allows for
collaboration. His book, The Wealth of Networks, suggests that more
freely shared information could be more economically efficient. |
WIKIPEDIA FAN Wellington Bahram chats with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy
Wales, present in world as avatar Jimbo Berkman. |
ART HAPPENS HERE is the symbol of the iCommons Artists in Residence. Six
international artists are producing physical and virtual work that
engages with fair use, copyright, re-mixing, piracy and collaboration. |
LIVE MUSICIAN Etherian Kamaboko serves up an end-day,
post-keynote celebration concert of Electric Roots and Foo Grass on
Acoustic, Drum and Harmonica |
