June kicked off with a meeting with Fátima São Simão, director of development at the UPTEC Science and Technology Park of the University of Porto, executive director of the Futureplaces.org medialab, leader at Creative Commons Portugal and, last but not least, a really good friend of CreativeMornings/Porto from its inception.

For a conversation about #Survival, Fátima started from a brief description of her multiple but focused on the issues surrounding copyright and proprietary content, and how they imperil culture - not only cultural heritage, but cultural development and the cultural industries as a whole. 

Fátima talked about her work at Creative Commons Portugal in developing the Creative Commons Toolkit for Business, and also on the need for saner copyright legislation.

Again, many thanks to Espiga’s Hugo and Inês for their relentless commitment in hosting CreativeMornings/Porto and offering volunteers and attendees a great breakfast in a very cozy environment. Thanks also to all the volunteers who made the event possible - Luís, Catarina, Mónica, Filipe and Joel -, and to all the attendees who shared into a great talk.

You can take a look at the event’s photo album at Flickr.

Top illustration by Joel Faria. Photos by Filipe Brandão. Text by Eduardo Morais.