[Colloquium] UPCOMING TALK: Richard Stallman on April 2nd
Katie Casey
caseyk at cs.uchicago.edu
Mon Mar 12 08:30:10 CDT 2012
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Date: Monday, April 2, 2012
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Place: Assembly Hall
International House
1414 East 59th Street
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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—to promote progress, for the benefit of the public—then we must make changes in the other direction.
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