Kim
Dotcom will feature in a fundraising debate for the Michael King Writers'
Centre in September, along with leading authors, writers and comedians.
The
debate will bring together the internet entrepreneur - or pirate, depending on
your perspective – along with Listener columnist and blogger Toby
Manhire, author Charlotte Grimshaw and Dunedin crime writer Vanda Symon, who is
on the board of Copyright Licensing NZ, along with award-winning comedian
Jeremy Elwood and writer, commentator and internet adventurer David Slack. The
chairman will be television and radio presenter Wallace Chapman.
The
debate will be held at Q’s Rangatira Theatre on Queen Street, at 7.30 pm on
Wednesday September 4.
Tickets
will be available at Q Theatre and
cost $35 (service fees apply).
The
moot will be that “Internet killed the copyright star”. It will look at
what's happening with copyright in the age of the internet.
Michael
King Writers’ Centre manager Karren Beanland said copyright and the impact of
digital technology is a vital issue for writers, creative people and the
publishing industry world-wide.
”How
do writers and creative people keep the rights to their work in the digital
age? Or get paid? What happens to the publishing industry? Will the internet be
the end of copyright?
“This
will be an entertaining debate on a serious topic: copyright and intellectual
property may be the biggest economic issue in the 21st century, being
played out at all levels of society from social media to the highest levels of
government.
“We
have a great group of speakers who will thrash the issues out from all sides.”
The
debate is a fundraiser for the Michael King Writers’ Centre, which has a
programme of supported residencies for New Zealand writers and has fostered
talents of writers from Poet Laureate Vincent O’Sullivan to booker
prize longlister Eleanor Catton.
The
Michael King Writers’ Centre, based in a heritage villa in Devonport, is New
Zealand’s first national writers’ centre. It offers a programme of supported
writers’ residencies each year, a workshop programme for young writers and an
annual residential workshop, as well as hosting visiting writers.
The
current writer in residence is novelist and graphic artist Sarah Laing.
For further information, please call Karren Beanland,
Manager:
Ph/fax:
09 445 8451
Mobile:
021 496 488
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Email:
manager @writerscentre.org.nz
www.writerscentre.org.nz
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