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Infringement Festival to challenge \u201cFringe\u201d trademark with over 50 artists and first-ever World Infringement Congress<\/strong> Based on the original Edinburgh Fringe of 1947, the Montreal Infringement Festival will welcome over 50 local and international artists for its 13th<\/sup>\u00a0edition, including burlesque, film, dance, music, and theatrical spoken word performances and events! Running from November 15 \u2013 20, the festival has moved from June to November to coincide with the 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0World Fringe Congress, a gathering of Fringe Festival managers from around the world, to spark a conversation.<\/p>\n The Infringement Festival was created in Montreal in 2004 after the St. Ambroise Fringe kicked out experimental theatre show\u00a0Car Stories<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in 2001, allegedly on orders of a corporate sponsor. The festival, which aims to challenge corporate interference in the arts through dialogue and by creating alternative models, has popped up in other cities and is currently one of the largest festivals in\u00a0Buffalo, New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n Infringement artists were represented<\/a> at the first two World Fringe Congresses in Edinburgh, in 2012 and 2014, after receiving letters of invitation. While artists from Montreal and Buffalo infringement festivals had hoped to continue to dialogue with Fringe managers about important issues in the arts, their applications were\u00a0rejected<\/a>\u00a0by the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF), hosts of the 2016 Congress being held in Montreal. CAFF has the word \u201cFringe\u201d locked in a Canada-wide trademark and uses this fact to\u00a0exclude<\/a>\u00a0people from participating in Fringe arts.<\/p>\n To counter the exclusion, not only is the Infringement Festival being offered as an inclusive space, but will also hold the first-ever World Infringement Congress<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday, November 19, to examine issues that tend to get glossed over at the original event and to provide a platform for the excluded artists to voice their concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the Montreal Infringement Festival has issued a\u00a0debate invitation<\/a>\u00a0to CAFF to engage in a Canadian parliamentary-style debate about its trademark on the word “Fringe” and the resulting exclusion of artists.<\/p>\n Through these strategies, the Montreal Infringement Festival aims to challenge the Fringe trademark and spark an important dialogue about finding concrete ways to protect artists and culture from excessive corporate interference.<\/p>\n Montreal Infringement Festival Website:\u00a0infringemontreal.org<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Media contact:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Donovan King\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0optatif@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0514-842-1467<\/a><\/p>\n -30-<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Pour diffusion imm\u00e9diate :<\/p>\n Le festival Infringement d\u00e9fiera la marque \u00ab Fringe \u00bb avec le premier Congr\u00e8s mondial Infringement.<\/strong><\/p>\n MONTR\u00c9AL, le 10 novembre, 2016<\/p>\n Fond\u00e9 sur le Fringe originel d\u2019\u00c9dimbourg de 1947, le festival Infringement de Montr\u00e9al accueillera plus de 50 artistes r\u00e9gionaux pour sa 13e \u00e9dition, incluant des \u00e9v\u00e9nements et des spectacles de burlesque, de danse, de musique, de films et de spoken word. Allant du 15 au 20 novembre, le festival a \u00e9t\u00e9 postpos\u00e9 de juin \u00e0 novembre afin de co\u00efncider avec le 3e Congr\u00e8s mondial du Fringe, un rassemblement des g\u00e9rants internationaux du festival Fringe dans le but de discuter.<\/p>\n Le festival Infringement fut cr\u00e9\u00e9 \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al en 2004 apr\u00e8s que le Fringe de Saint Ambroise eut expuls\u00e9 le spectacle exp\u00e9rimental Car Stories<\/a> en 2001, pr\u00e9tendument sur l\u2019ordre d\u2019un commanditaire. Le festival, qui vise \u00e0 d\u00e9fier, par le dialogue, l\u2019ing\u00e9rence des entreprises dans les arts en cr\u00e9ant de nouveaux mod\u00e8les, s\u2019est d\u00e9marqu\u00e9 dans d\u2019autres villes et est un des festivals les plus en vue \u00e0 Buffalo, New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n Les artistes de l\u2019Infringement ont \u00e9t\u00e9 repr\u00e9sent\u00e9s aux deux premiers congr\u00e8s mondiaux du Fringe \u00e0 \u00c9dimbourg en 2012 et 2014 apr\u00e8s en avoir re\u00e7u l\u2019invitation. Bien que les artistes du festival Infringement de Montr\u00e9al et de Buffalo aient esp\u00e9r\u00e9 de continuer le dialogue avec les g\u00e9rants du Fringe autour des sujets importants dans les arts, leurs demandes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 rejet\u00e9es par l\u2019Association canadienne des festivals Fringe (AcfF), h\u00f4tes du Congr\u00e8s de 2016 \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al. L\u2019AcfF a verrouill\u00e9 le mot \u00ab fringe \u00bb dans une marque de commerce canadienne, emp\u00eachant son utilisation dans les arts du Fringe.<\/p>\n Pour contrer cette exclusion, l\u2019Infringement ne s\u2019est pas seulement offert comme espace inclusive, mais comme accueil du premier Congr\u00e8s mondial de l\u2019Infringement, qui aura lieu samedi le 19 novembre, pour examiner les probl\u00e8mes qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 mis de c\u00f4t\u00e9 lors de l\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nement originel, et pour permettre aux artistes exclus qui veulent se faire entendre d\u2019avoir une plateforme pour le faire.<\/p>\n De plus, l\u2019Infringement de Montr\u00e9al a envoy\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019AcfF une invitation \u00e0 s\u2019engager dans un d\u00e9bat de type parlementaire concernant la mise en marque du mot \u00ab Fringe \u00bb et l\u2019exclusion des artistes cons\u00e9quemment. Par ces strat\u00e9gies, le festival Infringement vise \u00e0 d\u00e9fier la prise de la marque de commerce Fringe en cherchant un dialogue important sur les mani\u00e8res concr\u00e8tes de prot\u00e9ger les artistes et la culture des exc\u00e8s de l\u2019ing\u00e9rence commerciale.<\/p>\n RENSEIGNEMENTS M\u00c9DIAS : Donovan King, optatif@gmail.com, 514-842-1467<\/p>\n -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Infringement Festival to challenge \u201cFringe\u201d trademark with over 50 artists and first-ever World Infringement Congress MONTREAL, November 10, 2016 Based on the original Edinburgh Fringe of 1947, the Montreal Infringement Festival will welcome over 50 local and international artists for its 13th\u00a0edition, including burlesque, film, dance, music, and theatrical spoken word performances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/optative.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/optative.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/optative.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optative.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optative.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/optative.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"https:\/\/optative.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/optative.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optative.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optative.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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