Taking from the culture around us to make new things is what culture is about. Culture is that which we use to communicate. Who owns pictures? When your camera opens its aperture and greedily gobbles all the light reflecting off the surfaces of buildings, faces, t-shirts, paintings, sculptures, movies, and photos, are you breaking the law? Does your camera's mic infringe when it captures the perturbations made by speech, song and soundtrack?
If these seem like silly questions, blame the law, not the questions. Copyright, a system that is meant to promote creativity, has been hijacked. Today, copyright is as likely to suppress new creativity as it is to protect it.

GEORG PANZER- Lawyer (Intellectual Property Sector); Director of Norwegian Director's Guild; Norwegian Film Workers Union MARCO VISALBERGHI Vice-president Doc/It, Italy,
NEIL SIELING- Center for Social Media, Principal Researcher new study "Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video MARCELLO MUSTILLI- Lawyer (Intellectual Property Sector)"MARIJKE RAWIE- Fair Use inititiave Europe PRODUCERS & BROADCASTERS from Europe