Rewarding Creativity in the Digital Age is a project headed by Dr Ruth Towse at the Faculty of History and the Arts at Erasmus University Rotterdam. This project is concerned with rewards to the creators as new methods of delivering cultural products alter business models. The purpose of the research is to develop economic models of ways in which creative workers in the cultural industries can be rewarded for their production of content, particularly, though not exclusively, for work that is digitally distributed. It has its origin in the analysis in cultural economics of artists' labour markets and the role copyright plays in them.

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Economics of DRM and the Cultural Industries
Workshop

When:
March 21 2005

Where:
Erasmus University Rotterdam
L-building
Room L1-78



Reception:

March 20, 6 pm

Café DUDOK
Meent 88
3011 JP Rotterdam
010-4333102

There will be a table reserved for recida


Program

9 am - 9.30 am Reception & coffee

9.30 am- 10.30 am
Christian Handke
Asymmetric effects of the current crisis in the phonogram industry

10.45 am - 11.45 am
Paul Stepan
P2P, Variety and Quality

12 am - 1 pm
Dániel Füleki and Márta Csicser
Rethinking traditional copyright regimes: DRM through critical eyes

1 pm - 3 pm Lunch

3 pm - 4 pm
David Court
Shakespeare's fortune: the Topsy Turvy economics of creation

4.15 pm - 5.15 pm
Laura Vici
Illegal market of books in the Italian universities: The students of Rimini



Papers

Please send me your papers at the latest until March 10. I will put the papers on the webpage so that everyone can download and read them as basis for fruitful discussions.


Practical stuff


Flights

First, there is no need to fly to Rotterdam if it is easier to get to Amsterdam. From Schiphol (Airport) you can take a train (which departs every 15 or 20 minutes) to Rotterdam Centraal. The trip lasts - depending on the train - 45 to 60 minutes and costs about Euro 10.

There are several cheap carriers to Amsterdam like http://www.basiqair.nl , http://www.skyeurope.com and the national Dutch airline http://www.klm.com.


Hotels

The only one I can recommend is the Hotel Bazar (Euro 60 for a single room incl. a very good breakfast). 0031-(0)10-2065151
HOTEL BAZAR
Witte de Withstraat 16
3012 BP ROTTERDAM

Youth hostel http://www.stayokay.com

Hotel Emma (often used for conferences). http://www.hotelemma.nl

Two hotels, which are really cheap (in every sense).

http://www.vvv.rotterdam.nl/uk/hotels/Amar.asp?ComponentID=28756&SourcePageID=68027

http://www.vvv.rotterdam.nl/uk/hotels/Waldor.asp?ComponentID=28745&SourcePageID=68027


And there are of course some Internet agencies e.g.

http://www.book-a-hotel-in-rotterdam.com
http://www.octopustravel.com


How to find the Erasmus University

Take tramway No. 1 (direction "De Esch") until "Woudestein". (5 minutes walk)

or

The underground "Calandlijn" until "Kralingse Zoom" (10 minutes walk, direction Erasmus Universiteit, Brainpark)


Contact:

mail
0031/10/4081248 (office)
0031/6/45868992 (mobile)