Altenberg : inner landscapes

Zu der Publikation gehören mehrere Videodateien, die unter http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/fodasi/7 verfügbar sind. Zum Abspielen der Dateien wird ein Media-Player benötigt.Wenn man die Straße zwischen den beiden Siegerländer Dörfern Littfeld und Müsen fährt, überquert man in der Mitte eine Passhöhe: den Altenberg. Eine Sage berichtet, dass hier einst ein Dorf gestanden habe, das abgebrannt sei, als Strafe für die Habgier und den ausschweifenden Lebenswandel ihrer Bewohner. Nach einem Zufallsfund im Jahr 1963 erkundete man das Gelände archäologisch genauer und entdeckte Reste einer mittelalterlichen Siedlung und: Spuren ausgiebigen Silberbergbaus. Das Dorf war irgendwann aufgegeben worden, und die Natur hatte sich das Terrain über die Jahrhunderte zurückgeholt. Heute erinnern einzelne Überreste an Gebäude, Pingen und Schächte – ein magischer Platz, wo sich Natur und Kultur, uralte, vergessene und verborgene Geschichte und Gegenwart begegnen. Studierende der Fächer Architektur und Musik der Universität Siegen haben unter der Leitung von Prof. Ulrich Exner (Architektur) und Prof. Martin Herchenröder (Musik) das Gelände erforscht und dann auf das Gefundene mit künstlerischen Mitteln reagiert: In gemischten Arbeitsgruppen haben sie Filme komponiert, die einen neuen Blick auf das Gelände richten, den Altenberg neu interpretieren, ihn wieder lebendig werden lassen oder surreal verfremden, einzelne Aspekte hervorheben oder das Areal als Schauplatz und Hintergrund eigenwilliger Visionen verwenden – filmisch, architektonisch, musikalisch, performativ. Dabei spielt die reale Geschichte des Platzes ebenso in die Gestaltung hinein wie die Phantasie, die dieser Ort so mächtig anregt. Siegerländer Heimat-Videos, die es in sich haben… Buch (u.a. Projektdokumentation) und Videodatei.Aus dem Inhalt: Innere Landschaften = Inner Landscapes / Ulrich Exner und Martin Herchenröder SchURFACE : ein musikalischer Querschnitt = SchURFACE / Isabel Pazmann, Julia-Elisabeth Schander, Moritz Schönauer Klirrende Tiefen = Klirrende Tiefen (Clanging Depths) / Birk Arnold, Thomas Göbel Erdbrocken geträumt = Erdbrocken geträumt (Dreams of Clumped Earth) / Vivien Blecker, Till-Jonas Umbach Unentrinnbar und leise = Unentrinnbar und leise (Inescapable and silent) / Sarah Bäumer, Johanna Scheid, Daphne Schulte, Constantin Schwencke, Cora Theobald Hochmut = Hochmut (Pride) / Pia Bettig, Thomas Irnich, Nathanael Metenkanitch Bruch. Stück.Artig. = Bruch. Stück.Artig. (Frag. Ment. Like.) / Lena Hugger, Leonard Blümer, Julius Steuerwald-Ludwig, Cora Theobald NOVA = NOVA / Marco Hoffmann, Felix Ludewi

Cultural diversity, copyright, and international trade

This chapter argues that the international copyright system, which is now embedded in the international trading system as a consequence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement), has operated at least in relation to some types of copyright-protected cultural goods and services (as defined in the 2005 UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions) as a fetter on cultural diversity and self-determination. This effect has been produced by certain aspects of copyright law itself allied with aspects of behavior in the global market for cultural goods and services. The chapter analyses the extent to which these fettering effects have been exacerbated by other WTO agreements. It then considers whether or not the WTO system can be regarded as being in conflict with the emerging international regime for the protection of cultural diversity as embodied in the 2005 UNESCO Convention

A survey on 3D CAD model quality assurance and testing

[EN] A new taxonomy of issues related to CAD model quality is presented, which distinguishes between explicit and procedural models. For each type of model, morphologic, syntactic, and semantic errors are characterized. The taxonomy was validated successfully when used to classify quality testing tools, which are aimed at detecting and repairing data errors that may affect the simplification, interoperability, and reusability of CAD models. The study shows that low semantic level errors that hamper simplification are reasonably covered in explicit representations, although many CAD quality testers are still unaffordable for Small and Medium Enterprises, both in terms of cost and training time. Interoperability has been reasonably solved by standards like STEP AP 203 and AP214, but model reusability is not feasible in explicit representations. Procedural representations are promising, as interactive modeling editors automatically prevent most morphologic errors derived from unsuitable modeling strategies. Interoperability problems between procedural representations are expected to decrease dramatically with STEP AP242. Higher semantic aspects of quality such as assurance of design intent, however, are hardly supported by current CAD quality testers. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund, through the ANNOTA project (Ref. TIN2013-46036-C3-1-R).González-Lluch, C.; Company, P.; Contero, M.; Camba, J.; Plumed, R. (2017). A survey on 3D CAD model quality assurance and testing. Computer-Aided Design. 83:64-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cad.2016.10.003S64798

Discourse, justification and critique: towards a legitimate digital copyright regime?

Digitization and the internet have posed an acute economic challenge to rights holders in the cultural industries. Faced with a threat to their form of capital accumulation from copyright infringement, rights holders have used discourse strategically in order to try and legitimate and strengthen their position in the digital copyright debate with governments and media users. In so doing, they have appealed to general justificatory principles – about what is good, right, and just – that provide some scope for opposition and critique, as other groups contest their interpretation of these principles and the evidence used to support them. In this article, we address the relative lack of academic attention paid to the role of discourse in copyright debates by analysing user-directed marketing campaigns and submissions to UK government policy consultations. We show how legitimacy claims are justified and critiqued, and conclude that amid these debates rests some hope of achieving a more legitimate policy resolution to the copyright wars – or at least the possibility of beginning a more constructive dialogue

Copy rights: The politics of copying and creativity

This article analyses the politics of copyright and copying. Copyright is an increasingly important driver of the modern economy, but this does not exhaust its significance. It matters, we argue, not just for the distribution of rewards and resources in the creative industries, but as a site within which established political concerns – collective and individual interests and identities - are articulated and negotiated, and within which notions of ‘originality’, ‘creativity’ and ‘copying’ are politically constituted. Set against the background of the increasing economic value attributed to the creative industries, the impact of digitalization on them, and the European Union’s Digital Single Market strategy, the article reveals how copyright policy, and the underlying assumptions about ‘copying’ and ‘creativity’, express (often unexamined) political values and ideologies. Drawing on a close reading of policy statements, official reports, court cases, and interviews with stakeholders, we explore the multiple political aspects of copyright, showing how copyright policy operates to privilege particular interests and practices, and to acknowledge only specific forms of creative endeavour