Rasmus Fleischer

Rasmus Fleischer (born 19 April 1978 in Halmstad) is a Swedish historian, musician, freelance journalist and debater. He is currently working as a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University College in southern Stockholm. [ [http://webappl.web.sh.se/C125716A0028810C/tmt.view/719E519510FB2149C12572FE00674A5D?open&ref=/C1256C9300756F52/DD760E96EB14468BC125719C004A3119;/C1256C8A0066623D/911D4743A30D0608C1256CFC00608EBB&iframeLink=/shapp/forskningsdatabasen.nsf/0/EFA72E0712D6DE36C12571E10042079A?openDocument&Sprak=S OutsideS ] ]

In 2003, he was one of the founders of Piratbyrån, the pro-piracy organization that, in turn, once founded BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay. Since then he has been lecturing extensively, on subjects related to "the collapse of copyright" and the future of music, at various European conferences addressing art and/or new media. [ [http://copyriot.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/between-artworks-and-networks/ Between artworks and networks: Navigating through the crisis of copyright « Copyriot ] ] [ [http://copyriot.wordpress.com/2006/06/03/piratbyrans-speech-at-reboot/ Piratbyran’s speech at Reboot « Copyriot ] ] [ [http://piratbyran.org/?view=articles&id=114 ::: Piratbyrån ::: ] ] [ [http://oil21.org/?conference The Oil of the 21st Century. Conference ] ] [ [http://copyriot.se/2007/11/26/some-notes-on-general-rights-management/ Copyriot » Some notes on General Rights Management ] ]

Fleischer founded the term "national left" [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Fleischer#cite_note-0] for those in the Swedish leftist movement supporting national sovereignty and the Geneva Conventions, especially mentioning organizations such as Folket i Bild/Kulturfront. He also became controversial in the Swedish left for supporting Israel in its war against Hezbollah and Lebanon 2006. [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Fleischer] [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Fleischer#cite_note-1] [ [http://copyriot.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/mandag-pa-mollan-uppfoljning-kring-hizbollah/ Måndag på Möllan (uppföljning kring Hizbollah) « Copyriot ] ]

Parts of an interview with Fleischer commenting on copyright are featured in Steal This Film.

During January and February of 2008, he is staying as an artist in residence in Vienna, invited by the Museumsquartier to live there while doing mainly theoretical and conceptual work. [ [http://copyriot.se/2008/01/08/residerar-i-wien/ Copyriot » Residerar i Wien ] ]

When the Swedish engineering weekly "Ny Teknik" in September 2006 ranked the fifty most influential persons in Swedish IT-industry, he ended up as seventh on the list. [sv icon cite news
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Rasmus Fleischer has also studied at the Royal College of Music and, amongst other musical activities, interpreted medieval music in the ensemble Vox Vulgaris [ [http://www.last.fm/music/Vox+Vulgaris Vox Vulgaris – Music at Last.fm ] ] .

Writings

*" [http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/06/09/rasmus-fleischer/the-future-of-copyright/ The future of copyright] ", essay published by the Cato Institute in June 2008

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External links

* [http://www.copyriot.se/ Copyriot] , blog