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Rights and Digital Culture: Gilberto Gil on Innovative Practices



Nosso Gilberto Ministro da Cultura Gil, vem a Montreal na próxima semana para falar sobre o polêmico assunto Direitos Autorais x Cultura Digital.

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Media@McGill and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) jointly welcome Brazil’s Minister of Culture and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Gilberto Gil, for a free public lecture on Friday, 15 February, at 6 p.m. at the Hotel Omni Mt-Royal.




Digital Culture: Re-inventing America’s New World Dream will explore innovative policies and practices at the cutting edge of issues like copyright, digital culture and Internet rights.


In addition to being a high-profile politician, Gilberto Gil has been one of Brazil’s most famous singers and composers, inspiring many musicians around the world with nearly fifty albums and two Grammy Awards to his name. He began his career in the 1960s as a Bossa Nova musician and, as his lyrical leanings became more politically and socially charged, helped found the popular anti-establishment movement called Tropicalia – a form that is a mix of bossa nova, rock, bahia folk music and Portugese fado. In 1968, Gil was imprisoned for several months by Brazil’s military government and went into exile, returning to Brazil in 1972 where he resumed his career in music and activism. Brazilian President Lula da Silva appointed Gil to serve as the country’s new Minister of Culture. He took office in January 2003.


‘As Brazil’s Minister of culture, Gilberto Gil has been one of the leading international advocates for the rights of artists, cultural producers and ordinary citizens with respect to new media technologies,’ said Marc Raboy, Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications and head of Media@McGill. Under the patronage of his Ministry, traditional and grassroots communities throughout Brazil have been turned into centres of digital cultural production. Gil recently hosted the United Nations Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro (November 2007) where he called for the establishment of an international Internet Bill of Rights. ‘As a creator of music, he is widely known as a central player in the search for more flexible forms of distributing artistic works, Internet rights, free and open source software, and digital culture,’ adds Raboy.


Media@McGill is also presenting a second public event: Broadband: a conversation with Gilberto Gil which will take place 16 February at the SAT (Society for Arts and Technology) (map). At this event, Gilberto Gil will discuss his thoughts on some of the issues that arise when culture intersects with technology and politics. A group of local researchers and activists will be asking Gil specific questions about issues related to networked communities, technologies of inclusion, governing the Internet, cultural development and Web 2.0. Gil will also take questions from the audience and, when a jazz musician such as Gil takes centre stage the script is only a guideline, so the discussion is very unlikely to be constrained by these themes.




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