[632] in magellan
[Fwd: Richard Stallmann on copyright and the net: Thurs 19 April 2001]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Wed Apr 18 11:08:09 2001
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:54:46 -0400
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
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FYI,
Greg
David Thorburn wrote:
>
> MIT Communications Forum
> Copyright and Globalization in the Era of Computer Networks
>
> Thursday
> 19 April
> 5-7 pm
> Bartos Theater
> MIT Media Lab
> 20 Ames Street
>
> Speaker:
> Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software
> Foundation and the GNU Project and winner with Linux
> inventor Linus Torvalds) of the 1998 Electronic Frontier
> Foundation Pioneer Award.
>
> Stallman writes:
> Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed
>
> to fit well 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.
> Today the global corporations that profit from copyright are
> attempting to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing
> public access to technology so that they can retain control. But if
> we seriously hope to serve the purpose for which copyright was
> established in the US--to promote progress, for the benefit of the
> public--what needs to be done is either to reduce copyright powers or
> effectively eliminate them, depending on the kind of work.
> Governments must now protect the public's right to copy.
