Jorge Cortell is an activist and commentator known for his opposition to the concept of Intellectual Property. He was forced to resign as visiting professor of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) after delivering a talk in the university where he defended copyleft and P2P networks, and criticized copyright and patents, defying pressure from the dean and the MPAA who tried to censor his talk.
Cortell, a serial entrepreneur, is currently founder and CEO of Kanteron systems a precision medicine software company whose story was picked up by Microsoft's news site. He's also a European Commission Member of the Expert Group on Venture Philanthropy and Social Investments.
In May 2005 Spanish newspapers reported widely on an attempt by Universitat Politècnica de Valencia in Spain to block a talk by Cortell. The story was reportedly picked up by a large number of bloggers and Cortell resigned from his post at the University.
Cortell was "invited by the ETSIA Student Union and Linux Users' Group" to give a talk at the University analysing the legal use and benefits of the P2P networks, "even when dealing with copyrighted works" according to Cortell.[1] At the time Cortell was a teaching assistant on intellectual property at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia. On May 4, 2005 he was forced to resign, after his very critical talk on Intellectual Property. Cortell eventually gave the talk at the university cafeteria.
Some months after the incident, the dean admitted that he had been pressured by the Spanish Recording Industry Association (Promusicae) in a quote to the national newspaper El País, and also by the MPAA as appeared in another newspaper. [2]
Speechesedit
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2006-07-23 New York. HOPE6Selfness-Copyfight: From Censorship to New Business Models Video and Audio at archive.org
2005-11-17 Oslo, Faculty of Engineering, organized by the NUUG. Free culture, P2P networks, alternative economic models, and why some people do not want freedom. [1]
2004-09-14 Stanford university. Free culture for all: a sustainable real example.
Free culture for all. A sustainable real example - part 1 of 2
2005-12-21 Madrid, Centro de Convenciones Mapfre. Suidad: Un mundo sin copyright, as part of the Hispalinux Congress.
2005-11-21 Sevilla, Facultad de Comunicación of the Universidad de Sevilla. Round table "Música y derechos de propiedad intellectual", composed by a SGAE representer, an AIE member, Pedro of Zemos98.org, the singer Kiko Veneno, the sister of María Jiménez, the producer Antonio Escobar and Cortell. Eventually, both SGAE and AIE members did not come to the round table alleging personal problems with one of the members of the table, Cortell himself.
2005-11-21 Murcia, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia. On the circle of conferences of its patronal festivities.
2005-11-16 Barcelona, Ateneu Barcelonés. Round table of the Campaña contra la Trazabilidad sin orden judicial (Campaign against traceability without order from judge)[5], with David de Ugarte(Ciberpunk) and Javier Cuchí (Asociación de Internautas).[6][7][9]
2005-11-12 A coruño, Coliseum de A Coruña.
2005-11-10 Vigo, Edificio Miralles, of Ciudad Universitaria, Campus de Vigo. Part of Charlas-conferencias sobre el copyleft, la música, etc., organized by the Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria of the Universidad de Vigo. With David Bravo and Ignasi Labastida.
2005-10-31 Murcia, Murcia Lan Party.
2005-10-31 Tarragona, Sala Santiago Costa de la Diputació. Part of the Tinet congress, organized by OASI.
2005-10-15 Mataró, Centro Cívico Pla d¡en Boet. Round Table Creative Commons vs Devolución, with Iñigo Medina, Pere Quintana and Ignasi Labastida. Part of the IV Semana de las Nuevas Tecnologías para todos, organized by the Ajuntament de Mataró and the Fundación Tecnocampus.
2005-08-10 Málaga, Fuente de Piedra. Semana del software libre en Fuente de Piedra.
2005-07-20 to 2005-07-31 Valencia, Campus Party. Round Table Modelos de Negocio alternativos, conference Lo que no quieren que sepas de tu ordenador e Internet.
2005-06-19 Alicante, Universidad de Alicante - Campus San Vicente del Raspeig. Propiedad Intellectual y Software Libre / Patentes de Software, as part of the La alternativa del software libre en la sociedad de la información program.
2005-07-15 Málaga, Málaga LAN Party. Las redes P2P y la entelequia de la Propiedad Intellectual[14]
2005-06-16 Córdoba, La Rambla. Jornadas Software Libre e Internet
2005-06-09 Barcelona, Internet Global Congress. Globalización, propiedad intellectual y licencias abiertas. [15]
2005-06-08 Barcelona, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona. Derechos de autor y Software Libre, las claves en la difusión del conocimiento para las bibliotecas, organized by the Grupo de Trabajo de Software Libre para los profesionales de la información of Colegio Oficial de Bibliotecarios y Documentalistas de Catalunya.
2005-06-07 Barcelona, Auditorio Caixa Catalunya (La Pedrera). El acceso a las TIC ¿Un derecho humano fundamental?, given together with Marcelo d'Elia Branco, as part of the II Jornadas Internet y Solidaridad.
2005-05-26 Alicante, Universidad de Alicante. Round table ¿Hace falta una nueva ley/cultura de propiedad intellectual? inside the Copy ¿Right? journeys. Participants on the round table include Antonio Martínez, from SGAE, and Gabriel Marín, an attorney specialized in intellectual property and teacher at the Universidad de Alicante . Audio , , . Video .
2005-05-25 Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Facultad de Informática.
2005-05-06 Basque Country software libre en la empresa[23].
2005-05-04 Valencia, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia The cursed speech
2005-04-22 Granada Los peligros de las Patentes de Software. Video
2004-04-17 Barcelona.- Seminario jurídico: leyes de propiedad intellectual, licencias y patentes inside the II Jornadas Copyleft together with Andrea Cappoci (Laser, Italia) and Thomas Margoni.
^"Spanish University achieves world fame for its crude attempt at censorship | Technology | Guardian Unlimited". from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
^"Jorge Cortell blog". from the original on 2017-05-05. Retrieved 2017-06-03.
External linksedit
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(in English) Cortell's personal website, english articles
(in English) Slashdot article on the UPV matter
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(in Spanish) Cortell's personal website
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(in Spanish)
January 01, 1970
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Jorge Cortell is an activist and commentator known for his opposition to the concept of Intellectual Property He was forced to resign as visiting professor of the Polytechnic University of Valencia UPV after delivering a talk in the university where he defended copyleft and P2P networks and criticized copyright and patents defying pressure from the dean and the MPAA who tried to censor his talk Contents 1 Work 2 Controversy 3 Speeches 3 1 In English 3 2 In Spanish 4 See also 5 References 6 External links 6 1 English 6 2 SpanishWork editCortell a serial entrepreneur is currently founder and CEO of Kanteron systems a precision medicine software company whose story was picked up by Microsoft s news site He s also a European Commission Member of the Expert Group on Venture Philanthropy and Social Investments Cortell has founded La Resistencia Digital and has actively cooperated with the Creative Commons and the FFII He was president of the Oxford University Society Valencia and a member of the Free Software Foundation the Electronic Frontier Foundation AI Asociacion de Internautas mainly in Spanish and Hispalinux Controversy editIn May 2005 Spanish newspapers reported widely on an attempt by Universitat Politecnica de Valencia in Spain to block a talk by Cortell The story was reportedly picked up by a large number of bloggers and Cortell resigned from his post at the University Cortell was invited by the ETSIA Student Union and Linux Users Group to give a talk at the University analysing the legal use and benefits of the P2P networks even when dealing with copyrighted works according to Cortell 1 At the time Cortell was a teaching assistant on intellectual property at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia On May 4 2005 he was forced to resign after his very critical talk on Intellectual Property Cortell eventually gave the talk at the university cafeteria Some months after the incident the dean admitted that he had been pressured by the Spanish Recording Industry Association Promusicae in a quote to the national newspaper El Pais and also by the MPAA as appeared in another newspaper 2 Speeches editIn English edit 2006 07 23 New York HOPE6 Selfness Copyfight From Censorship to New Business Models Video and Audio at archive org slideshow PDF 2005 11 17 Oslo Faculty of Engineering organized by the NUUG Free culture P2P networks alternative economic models and why some people do not want freedom 1 2 2004 09 14 Stanford university Free culture for all a sustainable real example 3 nbsp Free culture for all A sustainable real example part 1 of 2 source source License Creative Commons by 2 5 Free culture for all A sustainable real example part 2 of 2 source source License Creative Commons by 2 5 Problems playing these files See media help In Spanish edit 2005 12 21 Madrid Centro de Convenciones Mapfre Suidad Un mundo sin copyright as part of the Hispalinux Congress 2005 11 21 Sevilla Facultad de Comunicacion of the Universidad de Sevilla Round table Musica y derechos de propiedad intellectual composed by a SGAE representer an AIE member Pedro of Zemos98 org the singer Kiko Veneno the sister of Maria Jimenez the producer Antonio Escobar and Cortell Eventually both SGAE and AIE members did not come to the round table alleging personal problems with one of the members of the table Cortell himself 4 2005 11 21 Murcia Facultad de Informatica Universidad de Murcia On the circle of conferences of its patronal festivities 2005 11 16 Barcelona Ateneu Barcelones Round table of the Campana contra la Trazabilidad sin orden judicial Campaign against traceability without order from judge 5 with David de Ugarte Ciberpunk and Javier Cuchi Asociacion de Internautas 6 7 8 9 2005 11 12 A coruno Coliseum de A Coruna 2005 11 10 Vigo Edificio Miralles of Ciudad Universitaria Campus de Vigo Part of Charlas conferencias sobre el copyleft la musica etc organized by the Vicerrectorado de Extension Universitaria of the Universidad de Vigo With David Bravo and Ignasi Labastida 2005 10 31 Murcia Murcia Lan Party 2005 10 31 Tarragona Sala Santiago Costa de la Diputacio Part of the Tinet congress organized by OASI 2005 10 15 Mataro Centro Civico Pla d en Boet Round Table Creative Commons vs Devolucion with Inigo Medina Pere Quintana and Ignasi Labastida Part of the IV Semana de las Nuevas Tecnologias para todos organized by the Ajuntament de Mataro and the Fundacion Tecnocampus 2005 08 10 Malaga Fuente de Piedra Semana del software libre en Fuente de Piedra 2005 07 20 to 2005 07 31 Valencia Campus Party Round Table Modelos de Negocio alternativos conference Lo que no quieren que sepas de tu ordenador e Internet 2005 06 19 Alicante Universidad de Alicante Campus San Vicente del Raspeig 10 Propiedad Intellectual y Software Libre Patentes de Software as part of the La alternativa del software libre en la sociedad de la informacion program 11 12 2005 07 15 Malaga Malaga LAN Party Las redes P2P y la entelequia de la Propiedad Intellectual 13 14 2005 06 16 Cordoba La Rambla Jornadas Software Libre e Internet 2005 06 09 Barcelona Internet Global Congress Globalizacion propiedad intellectual y licencias abiertas 15 16 2005 06 08 Barcelona Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona Derechos de autor y Software Libre las claves en la difusion del conocimiento para las bibliotecas organized by the Grupo de Trabajo de Software Libre para los profesionales de la informacion of Colegio Oficial de Bibliotecarios y Documentalistas de Catalunya 2005 06 07 Barcelona Auditorio Caixa Catalunya La Pedrera El acceso a las TIC Un derecho humano fundamental given together with Marcelo d Elia Branco as part of the II Jornadas Internet y Solidaridad 17 2005 05 27 Barcelona Universitat Pompeu Fabra Audio torrent 18 2005 05 26 Alicante Universidad de Alicante Round table Hace falta una nueva ley cultura de propiedad intellectual inside the Copy Right journeys Participants on the round table include Antonio Martinez from SGAE and Gabriel Marin an attorney specialized in intellectual property and teacher at the Universidad de Alicante 19 Audio part one part two part three Video 20 2005 05 25 Madrid Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Facultad de Informatica 21 22 2005 05 06 Basque Country software libre en la empresa 23 2005 05 04 Valencia Universitat Politecnica de Valencia The cursed speech 2005 04 22 Granada Los peligros de las Patentes de Software Video 24 2004 04 17 Barcelona Seminario juridico leyes de propiedad intellectual licencias y patentes inside the II Jornadas Copyleft together with Andrea Cappoci Laser Italia and Thomas Margoni See also editAnti copyright Copyright Intellectual PropertyReferences edit Spanish University achieves world fame for its crude attempt at censorship Technology Guardian Unlimited Archived from the original on 2008 05 16 Retrieved 2008 06 22 Jorge Cortell blog Archived from the original on 2017 05 05 Retrieved 2017 06 03 External links editEnglish edit in English Cortell s personal website english articles in English Slashdot article on the UPV matter in English Boing Boing article on the UPV matter Spanish edit in Spanish Cortell s personal website in Spanish El Pais newspaper article on the UPV matter in Spanish Linux Preview Interview on Jorge Cortell Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jorge Cortell amp oldid 1213849861, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
