[DLC] Fwd: Richard Stallman, presenting at UofC, Monday April 2nd

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From: Aisha Halim <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Subject: Richard Stallman, presenting at UofC, Monday April 2nd
To: [email protected]


FYI,

-Aisha


Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project and the Free Software
Foundation, will be giving a talk at The University of Chicago on
Monday, April 2nd at 1pm in the Assembly Hall of the International
House.

This talk will be open to the public.

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Speaker: Richard Stallman

From: Free Software Foundation

Web page: http://stallman.org/

Title: Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks

Abstract: 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=97to promote progress,
for the benefit of the public=97then we must make changes in the other
direction.

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