Info Freedom Activists Demo in Hyde Park

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Subject: [Upd-discuss] Anti-copyright activists demonstrate in
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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:36:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza <[email protected]>
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[From Jennifer de Beer]

Copyright activists let off steam in London
Ingrid Marson
ZDNet UK
October 17, 2005, 14:00 GMT
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39230999,00.htm
	
After Hours: Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow and free software
activists denounce copyright law in London's Hyde Park

A group of copyright activists took over Speakers' Corner in
London's Hyde Park on Sunday to expound the evils associated with
strict copyright law and point out some potential solutions.

An informal group of copyright activists meet on a regular basis
at the famous London landmark to voice their opinions. On Sunday,
the first speaker to take to the soapbox — well, stepladder — was
Cory Doctorow, the European coordinator for civil liberties group
Electronic Frontier Foundation and the co-editor of the Boing
Boing blog. Doctorow said the music industry has often criticised
new technologies, from the advent of radio in the early 1900s to
today's file sharing networks.

Next to speak was Ronaldo Lemos, the director of the Center for
Technology & Society at the Fundação Getulio Vargas law school in
Brazil, which recently advised Brazilian government on the its
free software strategy. Lemos discussed the link between
copyright and creativity in Brazil.

A number of other copyright activists spoke at the event,
including Salim Fadhley, an open source developer for the Plone
CMS and Zope application server projects. He said that recent
developments in the entertainment industry confound the music
industry's view that copyright promotes creativity. He provided
examples of this, talking about podcasting, a method of
subscribing to audio broadcasts which are then delivered to your
PC or digital media player, Resonance FM, a London radio station
that focuses on programming outside the broadcasting mainstream,
and the Creative Commons licensing schemes, which aim to provide
a more flexible alternative to traditional copyright laws.

Cory Doctorow atop a stepladder, at Speakers' Corner in Hyde
Park, talking about copyright law reform
Cory Doctorow talking in Hyde Park

Salim Fadhley atop a stepladder, at Speakers' Corner in Hyde
Park, talking about copyright law reform
Salim Fadhley talking in Hyde Park

	
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Zapopan Muela
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"Tiranos y autócratas han entendido siempre que el alfabetismo, 
el conocimiento, los libros y los periódicos son un peligro 
en potencia. Pueden inculcar ideas independientes e incluso
de rebeldía en las cabezas de sus súbditos.
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"Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, 
learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. 
They can put independent and even rebelious ideas to the heads 
of their subjects."
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-- Sagan, Carl (1997). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a
Candle
in the Dark : El mundo y sus demonios: La ciencia como una luz en
la 
oscuridad. México: Planeta, p. 390; New York: Ballantine Books,
p. 362.


		
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