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Meet free software guru Richard Stallman at Pitt
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| Copyrights used to expire after a few years;
| now some corporations want them to last
| forever to protect their revenue streams on
| copyrighted works. Stallman continues to
| influence this conversation with an eye toward
| protecting computer users' freedom and making
| software more conducive to a genuine
| education.
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| "The global corporations that profit from
| copyright are lobbying for draconian
| punishments for copyright violations and to
| increase their copyright powers while
| suppressing public access to technology," says
| Stallman. "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."
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http://www.popcitymedia.com/innovationnews/stallman0217.aspx
See 'Revolution OS' at the Darress Theatre in Boonton
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| The New Jersey Linux User's group will present
| a film titled "Revolution OS" at the Darress
| Theatre in Boonton on Wednesday, March 31.
| This is a documentary detailing the roots of
| the Free Software and Open Source movements
| that resulted in Linux, as well as many other
| free software projects.
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http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/events/84540942_See__Revolution_OS__at_the_Darress_Theatre_in_Boonton.html
Recent:
Google Music Blog Mess Highlights Why Three Strikes Will Not Work
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| They're based on the false belief that
| copyright infringement is an easy "yes" or
| "no" decision that can be determined upon
| seeing it. But what we're discovering in
| both this situation and in the Viacom
| situation is that even the copyright holders
| are really bad at figuring out if something
| is infringing or not. So why should anyone
| expect third parties to be able to do a
| better job?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100212/1210038151.shtml
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