This is the blog of Volker Ralf Grassmuck.

Contact: vgrass – ät – vgrass.de

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ORCID: 0009-0002-3998-6287

Para um CV Português consultar o Curriculo Lattes.

Kurzbio
Mediensoziologe, freier Autor und Aktivist. Er hat an der Freien Universität Berlin, der Tokyo Universität, der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und der Universität São Paulo über die Wissensordnung digitaler Medien, Urheberrecht und Wissensallmende studiert und geforscht. Von März 2021 bis Februar 2024 war er Senior Researcher im H2020-Projekt European Media Platforms (EuMePlat) am Hans-Bredow-Institut Hamburg. Zuletzt hat er am Institut für Medienwissenschaft der Ruhr-Uni Bochum unterrichtet (Mai 2020-Februar 2021). Davor war er Fellow am Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Bochum (April-September 2019) und hat das Forschungsprojekt “Grundversorgung 2.0” (2012-2015) am Zentrum Digitale Kulturen (CDC) der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg geleitet, das nach der Zukunft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien fragte. Er hat die Konferenzserie Wizards-of-OS.org und das Informationsportal zum Urheberrecht iRights.info geleitet, die Initiativen mikro-berlin.org, privatkopie.net und CompartilhamentoLegal.org mit gegründet, war Vorstandsmitglied des Digitale Gesellschaft e.V., ist Mitglied von C-Base.org und C3S.cc und bloggt unter vgrass.de.

Short Bio
is a media sociologist, free-lance author and activist, has studied and conducted research on the knowledge order of digital media, on copyright and the knowledge commons at Free University Berlin, Tokyo University, Humboldt University Berlin and University of São Paulo. From March 2021 to February 2024, he was Senior Researcher in the H2020 project European Media Platforms (EuMePlat) at the Hans Bredow Institute Hamburg. Most recently he taught at the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum (May 2020-February 2021). Before, he was Fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Bochum (April-September 2019) and headed the research project “Public Service Media 2.0” (2012-2015) at the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, which investigated the future of public service media. He was project lead of the conference series Wizards-of-OS.org and of the copyright information portal iRights.info, co-founded mikro-berlin.org, privatkopie.net and is CompartilhamentoLegal.org, was board member of Digitale Gesellschaft e.V., member of C-Base.org and C3S.cc and blogs at vgrass.de.

Collections

I maintain (more or less regularly) serveral collections of resouces that I find useful for my work. Those include the Sharing Licence Library with materials on legalizing file-sharing in exchange for a flat-rate remuneration. From my work on public service media there are (in German): Listen der Rundfunkstaatsverträge und der Rundfunkurteile des Bundesverfassungsgerichts sowie extern eine Liste der deutschen Dreistufentests (in der Wikipedia).

Tags

The tags you obviously find in the cloud in the right-hand column. To make things a bit easier and give you some context, here are some pointers:

Many of the texts here deal with copyright. A research project together with Wolfgang Coy and Jörg Pflüger at Humboldt University got me started. It resulted in a book on free software, free-licensing and the knowledge commons, and in the conference series Wizards of OS. In particular I’m interested in the sharing licence (aka Alternative Compensations System, Kultur-Flatrate etc.) and in Remixing.Thus the large tags copyright, free culture, Internet, free software, sharing licence, public policy and remix.

Fall 2009 to spring 2011 I spent in Sao Paulo, thus the Brasil tag.

My last project before that at Humboldt University dealt with copyright issues and the computer games sector, thus the games tag.

From 1989 to 1995, I was in Tokyo, which also turned into a book, thus a small but hopefully growing Japan tag.

Before then, I wrote a book together with Christian Unverzagt on the garbage system (das Müll-System), a fascinating topic that I picked up again under the Müll tag.

I also go to conferences quite a bit.