Jorge Cortell

Jorge Cortell, giving a speech.

Jorge Cortell is an activist and commentator known for his opposition to the concept of Intellectual Property.

Work

Cortell has founded La Resistencia Digital and has actively cooperated with the Creative Commons and the FFII.

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 (donación), the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 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 Spain to block a talk by Cortell. The story was reportedly picked up by a large number of bloggers 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.[1] At the time Cortell was a teaching assistant on intellectual property at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia. On May 4, 2005 he was forced to resign, after his very critical talk on Intellectual Property. 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) in a quote to the national newspaper El País, and also by the MPAA as appeared in another newspaper. [2]

Speeches

In English

Free culture for all. A sustainable real example - part 1 of 2
License: Creative Commons by-2.5.

Free culture for all. A sustainable real example - part 2 of 2
License: Creative Commons by-2.5.

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In Spanish

See also

References

  1. Spanish University achieves world fame for its crude attempt at censorship | Technology | Guardian Unlimited
  2. Jorge Cortell blog

External links

English

Spanish

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