[Fsfe-uk] Fwd: [ORG-discuss] Stallman in Cambridge this afternoon

[Jon Grant]

Shame they didn't announce this on FSFE-UK before now, I can't make it!

Jon

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Date: 2008/4/30
Subject: [ORG-discuss] Stallman in Cambridge this afternoon
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http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/11325

 Copyright vs Community
 Richard Stallman, www.gnu.org
 Wednesday 30 April 2008, 14:15-16:00
 Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.
 Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was
 designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the
 printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with
 computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.

 The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for
 draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while
 suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to
 serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright—to promote progress,
 for the benefit of the public—then we must make changes in the other
 direction.

 Brief bio:

 Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system
 (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the
 freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes
 either large or small. The GNU /Linux system, basically the GNU
 operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of
 computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a
 MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's
 Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic
 Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
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