Polyglot Piracy: Translation and the Instability of Texts
Saturday 23 March 2013, 2–5pm
With Professor Eva Hemmungs-Wirtén (Stockholm) and The Piracy Project

As a catalyst for conflicts over the perceived stability of the literary work; the relationship between authors and readers and the geopolitical tensions between producer and user nations, Professor Wirtén suggests that translation offers a complementary, productive, and still largely unexplored approach into the authorship/ copy-right conundrum relevant for copyright historians and print culture scholars.

Usership
Saturday 18 May 2013, 2–5pm
With Stephen Wright (Paris) and The Piracy Project

For this presentation, Stephen Wright will touch on the ‘user-friendly’ words listed in the image above, challenging the use of the word ‘piracy’ in The Piracy Project. This will be followed by a round table discussion that will try to reveal the ideologies that hide behind the word ‘piracy’.

‘… I feel more comfortable with a notion of “poaching” instead of piracy: poachers are those who in the shadow of the night make forays behind the enclosures of the owner’s land, capture their prey, and withdraw. I guess poaching, too, has a bad name, but I think both the scale and mode of intervention is more appropriate to describing off-the-radar cultural practices today….Usership stands opposed to the whole conceptual institution of ownership — the very thing that piracy, in its contemporary cultural coinage, like poaching and hacking, is supposed to challenge’ Stephen Wright.

A Day At The Courtroom
Saturday 15 June 2013, 2–5pm
With Professor Lionel Bently (Cambridge), Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento (New York), Prodromos Tsiavos (Athens / London) and The Piracy Project

In a performative debate these three lawyers will use their different legal backgrounds to explore concepts of legality, illegality and all the nuances in between. As evidence, they will use items taken from the Piracy Collection.