Fatima LASAY

Dear friends,

Korakora.org is revitalizing the Kuro meetings and will begin with on-line exchanges of ideas via a new sub-heading "Kuro't Palaisipán." For comment, we have three discussion articles:

(1) Statement on the Philippine IP policy and strategy
(2) So What's the problem?
(3) Is there anything left after property rights?

Abstracts and links below.

If you have a paper, short article, draft statements or other research document that you would like to place in a discussion-study group, just let me know.

Mabuhay!
Fatima Lasay

Here are some music I made in 1999-2002. Included is a 4-minute recorded excerpt from a sound installation in 2004. Feel free to share with others.

If you need help with the files or if you find anything wrong on the website, please let me know. Thanks!

Dear Joel Tenenbaum,

My name is Fatima Lasay, artist from the Philippines.

Reading about the transformation of your life under this trial brought about by the American legal system and the American recording industry, I am reminded of the history of the transformation of life in the Philippines brought about by American expansion in the late 19th century.

It seems far fetched, but your account makes me think that Expansionist Corporate America is now fiercely colonizing its own people.

Dear colleagues,

Below, I make an intervention of the news announcement from European Commissioner Reding about "re-working" copyright law in Europe.

I use the text of Paul Bigioni, a lawyer who wrote a book about the persistence of fascism.

My intention is to show that we are on our way to a neo-fascist world.*

I'm sorry it is only in English.

Best wishes,
Fatima Lasay

This book is a collection of selected writings by Filipino artist Fatima Lasay.

Fatima Lasay is an artist and writer/researcher. She is interested in the social and political dimensions of technologies. In 2003-2004, she developed the concept of the "triad" as organising principle. The "triad" consists of knowledge, body and language.

Fatima is a member of the Copy/South Research Group, a group seeking to investigate the inner workings of the global copyright system and its largely negative effects on the global South.

This presentation is a critique of the concept of "free society" and its technology of propaganda. This presentation is therefore also a critique of ICT, information and communications technology, the technology underlying the free and open-source movement.

This text is an edited and more organized version of the brief 5-minute "kick-off" presentation that I made for the session on "Cultural Industries" at the CopySouth Workshop in Kerala, India. As a kick-off presentation, this text was intended to launch debates and discussion around the topic of copyright and creativity. Two other presenters were Shishir J. Kha (India) and Tatiana Carsen (Argentina).

Thanks to all the CopySouth members for the dialogues and the opportunity to sharpen the arguments set forth in this text, especially to Rustom Bharucha, Lawrence Liang, Carolina Botero, and CopySouth observers Trevor Batten and Gargi Sen. I look forward to continuing the dialogues.

Celebrating FREE SOFTWARE FOR A SLAVE SOCIETY?

Our contribution to Software Freedom Day, September 20, 2008.
Process/yon Artists' Book and Dialogue Series II:
Free Software for Slave Society?

"PROCESS/YON" is a multi-location, interactive, experimental and collaborative, Social-software Performance Art project by Fatima Lasay and Trevor Batten. It is concerned with creating, exploring and developing new attitudes and creative strategies regarding the technology of the artist's medium.

SURFERS OR SERFS: DIGITAL FREEDOM OR DIGITAL FEUDALISM?

Within the context of issues addressed within the free, open-source, and open-standards community, "Surfers or Serfs" seeks to investigate realities of Freedom within the Culture of Ignorance: Are humans being turned into machines so others can exploit them without them questioning their own slavery? Why do we consider somebody "computer literate" when they can only operate the controls of a commercial computer system?

WIPO: Teaching IPR Myths
by Fatima Lasay
July 2008

In an article by Catherine Saez on Intellectual Property Watch WTO/WIPO Colloquium Aimed At IP Teachers, teachers of intellectual property from developing countries have been invited to attend a two-week colloquium jointly organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 30 June to 10 July.

I wonder if the WTO/WIPO Colloquium will also attempt to dispel the myths of Intellectual Property Rights, or will these myths continue to be taught as doctrinal truths to university professors of law, management and economy from developing countries?