Creativity, copyright and what the law doesn't recognise

Whilst presenting the Creating Your Future in The Digital World programme, I was often asked about copyright in the digital community. It is a vexed area and one in which there are as many opinions as there are lawyers - pick your opinion and then pick a lawyer. Peter Williams, CEO of Deloitte Digital was clear that the most exciting area of commercial development in the digital technologies was often where the hackers could be found. I have downloaded songs and remixed them as a hobby for years without paying. Legally I could be perceived as having breached copyright. In searching for some answers to this question and to add content to our next series of Creating Your Future in the Digital World programmes, I came across this presentation on YouTube

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The Ethos of Creative Leadership - Creative Capitalism and Social Business

The Davos World Economic Forum 2008 had as its theme a call amongst business, government and civil society leaders for a new brand of collaborative and innovative leadership - a very similar theme to the one the Creative Leadership Forum has chose to explore this year.

As I scanned the digital commentary on this event from Google News alerts, You Tube, blogs etc in the hope of some powerful insight, I felt a deep cynicism arise in me. I was reminded of A Map of the World a play I worked on as Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company in the early 80's. Written by David Hare, who is best known for his film script Plenty, A Map of the World is essentially a running debate pitting Vicktor Mehta (played by Roshan Seth, best known for his role as Gandhi) against Stephen Andrews (Zeljko Ivanek), a young, idealistic English journalist who's reporting on a Unesco conference for a ''left-wing literary magazine.'' Their battle is as much personal as ideological, and each man accuses the other of shaping his beliefs to serve his private neuroses.

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Charles Ledbeater on the Creative Minds of Mountain Bikers

This presentation by Charles Ledbeater,the founder of the UK based think tank,Demos offers an introduction to the Creative Leadership Forum 2008 business theme - Group Genius, The Creative Power of Collaboration.

East Meets West Creatively!!

Commencing on Sunday February 24 in Singapore is a promising new initiative in the history of the creative thinking movement. The American Creativity Association is launching its first annual conference outside of the US since its inception in 1987. The significance of moving the conference to a destination outside of the US cannot be underestimated. It is a sign of the American creative community reaching out globally in a way that it would not have done in the past. The importance the Singaporeans are placing on the event can be seen by the fact that Singapore Foreign Minister is officially opening it. Much of the credit for this initiative must go

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Some early results on the big question - Is Australian management creative and innovate?"

The national major research project "Is Australian management creative and innovative?" that commenced on September 5, 2007 is now closed.
We estimate we have reached approximately 30,000 through either direct email or web site links and responses have exceeded 300.Over the next three months, we will collate the data we have collected and do follow up indepth interviews around those questions that have produced some interesting results. Survey results such as 62% disagree there is a difference between work and personal creativity.78.9% agree that people in organisations do not know the difference between creativity and innovation. 83.5% said there was no creative leadership programmes or training offered within their organisations and quite alarmingly 2.9 % agreed when asked whether they would like an academic to present creativity and innovation training or skills development - a whopping 97.1% diagreed.

If you are interested in hearing more when the results have been collated and the full report written, please email your details to the Creative Leadership Forum with the email subject/title "Is Australian management creative and innovative? and we will add you to our list of interested parties.