[Centre] draft

[Cubitt S.R.]

Hi there

Back from my walk: 130 amazing miles of country threaded through the
crowded south of england. We also collected nearly 3000 pounds for Crohn's
disease and colitis research (justgiving.com
<http://www.justgiving.com/terrycubitt> if you're feeling generous)

Ned: now at U of Western Sydney, we see quite a bit of each other; very
happy to invite him in: Ned Rossiter <ned at nedrossiter.org>

UoSouthampton has a major research project in next-gen broadband: as
usual, 90 per cent funding to hardware, 9 to software; and the last per
cent to content . . . But there is a test platform there

There are several hundred e-mails waiting: I'll catch up before diving in
more

sean

On 01/09/2011 21:13, "Sally-Jane Norman" <S.J.Norman at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:

>ps - referenced e-science paper strictly internal/ confidential please as
>it's a working document at present
>
>best
>sj
>
>
>
>
>________________________________________
>From: Sally-Jane Norman
>Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2011 9:11 p.m.
>To: Group working in the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in
>the Creative Economy
>Cc: Caroline Bassett; Kirk Woolford; Ed Steinmueller
>Subject: RE: [Centre] draft
>
>Hi Volker
>
>Appended version features comments transcribed for Caro Bassett (cc'd),
>and updated profiles for Sussex team minus that for Ed Steinmueller still
>awaited. For some reason I can't get tracked modifs to feature - apart
>from tracked comments, these concern Sussex bio data. Let me know if you
>want me to integrate this some other way.
>
>If for Australia Ned's a good bet (we get an Australian/ Chinese double
>whammie this way as he's a West Australia based Sinophile with prof
>status at Ningbo), let me know and I'll try to make contact as a fellow
>antipodean... unless he's in Siberia or somewhere as is his wont...
>
>Re sustainable funding, why don't we make a vibrant case for policy work?
> The Centre should become an international reference given its ambitions,
>thus capable of conducting unique and possibly major policy consultancy
>works for national and international bodies. Heck, why not. Brits still
>have a Demos hang-up. Let's use it.
>
>In addition to policy, it should also be able to carry out major advisory
>works and contribute expertise to bodies building up archival resources
>with a view to public use (e.g. declared south east partner The Keep -
>www.eastsussex.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/localandfamilyhistory/esro/thekeep
>/)
>
>Volker your 4th point might usefully be linked with the UK e-science
>agenda - might say for example that:
>The proposed consortium's strong links with the UK e-science community,
>and notably its contributions to ongoing efforts to enhance the UK
>Research Computing Ecosystem, will be further developed to ensure that
>copyright implications of distributed and high performance platforms are
>integral to the Centre's reflection and feature incisively and usefully
>in its outputs (etc etc etc).  (see http://www.allhands.org.uk/)
>
>Maybe our Southampton Innovation Centre colleagues also have links to
>this and/ or similar initiatives worth quoting - I'm tuned via Peter
>Coveney et al at UCL -
>http://wikis.nesc.ac.uk/_escienvoy/files/3/31/ResearchcomputingV44.pdf
>
>
>best
>
>sj
>
>
>
>Sally Jane Norman
>Professor of Performance Technologies
>Director, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
>Silverstone 310
>University of Sussex
>Brighton BN1 9RG
>United Kingdom
>www.sussex.ac.uk/acca/
>
>________________________________________
>From: p2p-centre-bounces at lists.ourproject.org
>[p2p-centre-bounces at lists.ourproject.org] on behalf of Volker Grassmuck
>[vgrass at rz.hu-berlin.de]
>Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2011 8:00 p.m.
>To: Group working in the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in
>the Creative Economy
>Subject: Re: [Centre] draft
>
>Dear all,
>
>some more edits in the version below. I would like to highlight two
>issues:
>
>* Funding:
>- Since the ￡5 million is an 80% funding, we will have to come up with an
>additional ￡1.25 million. We have two suggestions: Google, OSI and
>UoSouthampton. The instructions say: "In  order  to  demonstrate  the
>institutional  commitment  to  the  project  the  lead  institution  will
>  be  expected  to  provide  a  level  of  support  for  the  Centre...”
>Is such a commitment (personnel, space, equipment) feasible, and if so
>would it add up to ￡1.25 million? I have not approached Google or OSI.
>Should I try? Does anyone have good contacts with them? The only personal
>contact I have is with Vera Franz at OSI. I could contact someone at
>Google Germany, but that might not work for a project in the UK.
>
>- As for sustained funding after the four-year period, the only
>suggestions we have so far is contract research and FP7/8 calls.
>
>I think this should be a top priority for the remaining days. I’m afraid
>if we don’t come up with something plausible our EoI might be out before
>they even look at the rest of it. ("There  is  an  expectation  that  the
> Centre   will  leverage  significant  additional  income  or  support
>from  partners  and  other  sources,  both   during  and  after  the
>award  period...”)
>
>
>* IPRs vs. copyright. The instructions say: "3. Key  aims  of  the
>Centre ... It  should  aim  to  encompass  research  into   copyright,
>business  models,  creative  industries  and  digital  technologies,” and
>emphasizes again that these are the "4 critical aspects.” Since there is
>no mention of patents, trade marks or IPRs in general, I think we should
>replace „IPRs” with „copyright” in most if not all places.
>
>Also, we don’t say much on the 4th point yet. The instructions mention:
>
>"Research  the  business  potential  of  new  digital  technologies,
>such  as  new  forms  of  high-­‐speed  internet  connectivity,  smart
>phone  technologies  or  cloud  computing  systems,  and  their
>relationship  to  copyright” and
>"Include  the  use  of  novel  digital  technologies  and  their
>development  in  a  real  world context,  to  ensure  challenges  arising
> from disruptive  digital  technology  are   considered  and  copyright
>issue  consideration  can  be  embedded  in  underpinning   Digital
>Economy  research;”
>
>Best,
>Volker
>
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