Jorge Cortell
Encyclopedia
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
.
Work
Cortell has founded La Resistencia Digital and has actively cooperated with the Creative CommonsCreative Commons
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and the FFII
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII is a non-profit organisation based in Munich, Germany, dedicated to establishing a free market in information technology, by the removal of barriers to competition...
.
Cortell is currently president of the Oxford University Society Valencia and a member of the following organisations: AA (Amigos y Antiguos Alumnos de la Universidad de Valencia), ADOLCI (Asociación Valenciana de Doctores y Licenciados en Ciencias de la Información), the Free Software Foundation
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, a copyleft-based movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software...
(donación), the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States...
, AI (Asociación de Internautas, mainly in Spanish) and Hispalinux.
Controversy
In May 2005 Spanish newspapers reported widely on an attempt by Universitat Politècnica de Valencia in SpainSpain
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to block a talk by Cortell. The story was reportedly picked up by a large number of blog
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gers 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. At the time Cortell was a teaching assistant on intellectual property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia. On May 4, 2005 he was forced to resign, after his very critical talk on Intellectual Property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
. 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
PROMUSICAE
Spanish Music Producers is a trade group representing the Spanish recording industry...
) in a quote to the national newspaper El Pais, and also by the MPAA as appeared in another newspaper.
In English
- 2006-07-23 New York, NY. 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. http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20051117-p2p/ http://onebigtorrent.org/details.php?id=1419&hit=1
- 2004-09-14 Stanford university. Free culture for all: a sustainable real example. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/archives/jorge_cortell.shtml
In Spanish
- 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 VenenoKiko VenenoJosé María López Sanfeliu born in Figueres, Girona is a Spanish musician better known by his stage name Kiko Veneno-Biography:...
, 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. http://www.cortell.net/2005/11/23/sgae-aie-y-su-cobarde-censura/ - 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)http://www.ciberpunk.info/no-a-la-traza-privada, with David de Ugarte(Ciberpunk) and Javier Cuchí (Asociación de Internautas).http://enriquegomez.com/mesa-redonda-sobre-la-traza-en-barcelona http://www.deugarte.com/bcn-y-la-traza http://javiercuchi.bitacoras.com/archivos/2005/11/20/el-miedo-y-la-vina http://www.internautas.org/html/3279.html
- 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. http://univerano.ua.es/curso.asp?id=24Propiedad Intellectual y Software Libre / Patentes de Software, as part of the La alternativa del software libre en la sociedad de la información program.http://neorazorx.blogspot.com/2005/07/cursillo-de-verano-sobre-software.html http://www.cortell.net/wp-content/files/190705alicante.pdf
- 2005-07-15 Málaga, Málaga LAN Party. Las redes P2P y la entelequia de la Propiedad Intellectualhttp://www.filmica.com/sonia_blanco/archivos/2005_07_16.html http://www.el-mundo.es/navegante/2005/07/06/esociedad/1120650329.html
- 2005-06-16 Córdoba, La Rambla. Jornadas Software Libre e Internet
- 2005-06-09 Barcelona, Internet Global Congress. Globalización, propiedad intellectual y licencias abiertas. http://www.igcweb.net/web/php/conferencies/detallsessio.php?sessio=287&inputConferencia=2 http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/posts/2005/06/10/315/
- 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 Solidaridadhttp://www.jornadasinternetsocial.org/.
- 2005-05-27 Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Audio torrent http://torrents.sysnetworks.net/charla_jorge_cortell_pompeu_fabra_27052005.ogg.torrent.
- 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 http://neorazorx.blogspot.com/2005/07/jornadas-copy-right-en-alicante.html. Audio part one, part two, part three. Video http://www.fi.upm.es/destacados/cortell/confCortell_FI-UPM.avi.
- 2005-05-25 Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Facultad de Informática.http://www.fi.upm.es/destacados/cortell/ http://pierre2pierre.net/2005/07/14/conferencia-de-jorge-cortell/
- 2005-05-06 Basque Country software libre en la empresa http://www.zonalibre.org/blog/erdilurra/archives/078162.html.
- 2005-05-04 Valencia, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia The cursed speech
- 2005-04-22 Granada Los peligros de las Patentes de Software. Video http://www.gcubo.org/seminario/informacion
- 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.