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Have you checked out The Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice? Well then get onto it. If you think it sounds very lofty and important, that’s ’cause it is. These are the fellas who brought us the very awesome ‘Your voice in the house’ campaign - a resource that lets you locate all the polis who represent you in every house of parliament with just a few mouse clicks.
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Also, one of its head honchos is our very own web guru Hammy Goonan so obviously they are very discerning and wise in all of their activities.
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This is further proven by their latest project ‘En Masse‘, a campaign to “Rethink Copyright in our digital age; to Reclaim culture by encouraging people to step outside the current intellectual property regime; and to provide the tools to Redo cultural outputs, remixing them into something new.“. Pretty ace yes indeed.
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The whole shebang will be launched on Tuesday at 7:30pm at Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St with the screening of the new remix doco ‘RiP: A Remix Manifesto Screening‘.
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On the facefuck invite Hammy says that in the doco “web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film features mash-up musician Girl Talk, Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow”
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Can’t wait.