The debate surrounding copying, downloading and distributing music files from the internet is still raging.
Questions relevant to this debate may include:
What is public space?
What is private use?
What is lawful copying?
What do you buy when you purchase a CD, medium or content?
How can musicians earn money when music costs nothing?
Is mp3 a death sentence for the record industry?

Are no women willing to participate in Shareday, or have we just not done enough research? Are women not interest in such burning issues? Do they not make music?

Shareday puts some of these issues into practise ......

SHAREDAY is not just a regurgitation of the eighties-style copyparty. We ask where the borders go, where the grey zones lie, and what is the law, what should be the law and, as such, how such laws could be practiced. We have no answer. Similarly we would like to ask why the speakers and sharers currently listed as participants in Shareday seem to be male.

We have invited an, as yet, exclusively male group of experts and people form the music branch to Landmark at 1900, 7th April because we have not been able to get hold of any female experts. We may just manage a few at the last minute, though.

You may possibly find these men between 12.00 and 24.00 in Sal2 at Bergen Kunsthall

Espen Sommer Eide
John Hegre
Mikal Telle
Bjørn Torske
Jørgen Træen
Gisle Martens Meyer
Fredrik Saroea
Stig Narve Brunstad
Geir Uldal
Åsmund Mæland
Theodor Groeneboom
Per Platou
Jonas Olesen deler ut sin dis_published
Jørgen Larsson

Per Platou
Mikal Telle
Thomas Gramstad
Nils Heldal
Andreas Galtung
Knut Bøhn
A representant fra Universal?
A representant fra EMI/Virgin?
A representant for Warner?
A representant fra Sony?
A representant fra TONO?

but also .........
"There is considerable evidence from the work of cultural anthropologists that men on a cross-cultural basis attempt to control cultural processes through the technologies which not only make cultural processes possible, but which also provide the material base on which cultural concepts are mapped " [John Shepherd]
*see: THE DEATH OF COPYRIGHT, THE RISE OF WOMEN AND ROCK IN A SOCIALIST STATE

An okay article by Arvid Skancke-Knutsen with lots of nice links HERE.
Høringsutkast til nytt lovforslag om opphavsrett i åndsverkloven ligger HER.
HERE is an article from Ballade about SHAREDAY.

also worth mentioning ........ or boycotting, as the case may be .....
"More growth in CD burner ownership has occurred among women age 19 to 29 (30%) than men the same age (28%), a shift from the previous year when men had a more significant lead in ownership (18% men vs. 13% women)."
[Market Watch, RIAA, 2000]
*see: http://www.riaa.org/pdf/public_newsletter_final.pdf

plus ........
"Do we need changes in copyright legislation in favor of cultural institutions?"
asks  Sandra Fauconnier in one of 4 postings she made to V2's Deaf03 seminar webpage "copy the rights". She got a total of 0 responses.
*see: http://www.v2.nl/copyright/forum/

Papers/reports/articles on intellectual ownership, copyright, etc, by Sandra Fauconnier, Wendy Seltzer and others at Deaf03 can be found Here

and last but not least ....... in fact really the most ....
"June 14, 2000 | Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software. I'm talking about major label recording contracts." [Courtney Love]

*see:Courtney Love does the Math
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/

WEBCAM (open from 1200 Monday 7th April)
WATCH THIS SPACE, YOU MAY SEE SOME WOMEN !