CounterpointStimulating debate with the British Council

Counterpoint is launching a vital debate for our time. The rise of cloud computing is not only creating the battle for global internet control: it will soon change the very ways in which we exercise our creativity and forge relationships. In our ground-breaking report, Charles Leadbeater asks what will Cloud Culture be like? Who will own the cloud? How can we keep it open? And how can it empower the world’s poorest people?

Technology is blurring boundaries between what have hitherto felt like very different content businesses and sets of rights. New business models are emerging and new players are bringing disruptive changes to the marketplace.

In these three video clips from the launch of Counterpoint's Cloud Culture publication, the author delivers his thesis on the future of the internet as a space for cultural relations, the Artistic Director of the ICA is hopeful about the creative possibilities of that space, and Peter York gives his thoughts on the subject from a balcony overlooking Big Ben.

If there's one lie more corrosive to creativity above all others, it is the lie of romantic individual originality. Today, ‘copyright curriculum’ warns schoolchildren not to be ‘copycats’ - to come up with their own original notions

If copyright hadn't been invented, what kind of copyright would we want?

In this series of interviews, Nehal Panchamia talks to a range of Education and Youth experts, both UK and International, to explore the nature and character of student “radicalism” today.

IP policy, and more generally innovation policy, should aim at the improvement of the overall welfare of UK society and citizens and not just at promoting innovation and creativity

Creative workers and creative organisations – in music, writing, graphic arts, film, broadcasting, software, games, design and all the rest, whether as writers and artists, directors, producers, performers – are not only a critical part of our society and our development, but are also of immense importance to our economy.

Our situation is now one best described by the theory of incompetent systems