On 2008-03-27 12:56, John Pinner wrote: > On 26/03/2008, Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In a message of Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:14:58 +0100, Steve Alexander writes: >> >I want to propose two keynote speakers for EuroPython this year. Let me >> >know what you think of this. >> > >> >The first is Karl Fogel, author of the Red Bean book on Subversion. His >> >web site and weblog is at http://rants.org/ >> > >> >Karl's current passion is copyright reform, so I propose inviting him to >> >give a keynote at EuroPython about what's up with copyright, and what we >> >can do about it. >> > >> > >> >The second is Van Lindberg. Van is a Python programmer and also a >> >lawyer at a US law firm. He gave a keynote at PyCon this month, also >> >about copyright, showing how it works, what it's for, its history and >> >its problems. >> > >> >-- Steve >> >> >> One of the greatest problems we face in Europe is overexposure to the >> USA version of copyright. People here believe that the law, history, >> and whatnot is the same as in the USA, when it is not. >> >> Through FFII I have many splendid connections with Europeans who are >> working on copyright reform both Europe wide and in their own countries -- >> in the Netherlands in particular things are getting very interesting >> right now -- so if this is a topic we would like to persue, I think >> it would work better as a panel discussion with experts from all over. >> Having helped host 2 conferences discussing how to make reforms in >> patents trademarks and copyrights in the last 16 months, I know >> where to round up the usual suspects. > > The European position is quite different, but equally important. I > think that we should have a copyright session (panel?) and leave the > choice of speakers to Laura's judgement.
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