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PANEL: Intellectual Property and Improvisation

Gustavo Alberto Gill, Giuseppe Mazziotti, Palmira Granados Moreno, Catherine Tsatoumas

Published: 2009-06-19

VIDEO: Four panelists give presentations on a range of topics related to intellectual property and improvisation.
Giuseppe Mazziotti: “Who 'Owns' Improvised Music? Remarks on the Legal Status of Jazz Music from a Comparative Perspective.” Palmira Granados Moreno: “On Mechanical Bards and Bores: Kindle 2.0.” Gustavo Alberto Gill: “Owners without Authors: Computer Generated Works in Copyright Law.” Catherine Tsatoumas: “Improvisation in Biotechnology: Why GMO Matters in the European-Canadian Equation.” TEXT: An abstract for each presentation.

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...partly because I know that’s the only way that we could solve a creative problem [using improvisation with children ranging in abilities] and what doesn’t work is trying to impose a template on the students who are not able to respond to that template.

– Pauline Oliveros (in working with Abilities First)