Copyright 2005, Canada
p2pnet.net News:- “Free software is a matter of liberty, not price,” say the organizers of Copyright 2005, slated for July 3 in Montréal, Canada.
“To understand the concept, you should think of ‘free’ as in ‘free speech,’ not as in ‘free beer.’ Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software,” they say on the web site.
Copyright 2005 will be at the Université du Québec and will feature kiosks hosted by Free Culture enthusiasts such as Debian, FreeCulture, KDE, île sans fil, Savoir-faire Linux.
Also on hand will be Richard Stallman of Gnu fame who’ll deliver a presentation on copyright and, “we plan to film the whole event,” Robin Millette tells p2pnet.
Regular p2pnet contributor Russell McOrmond (Flora), Daniel Pascot (Laval University) and Marcus Bornfreund (Ottawa University), responsible for the Canadian adaptation of the Creative Commons licenses, Cyrille Béraud (Savoir-faire Linux) and Millette (FACIL) will be there as well.
Highly controvercial
On Monday, June 20 Canada’s parliament introduced Bill C-60, an amendment to the Copyright Act which proposes many radical changes to copyright law, many of them beneficial to the corporate entertainment cartels.
The amendment is meant to ratify two highly controvercial WIPO treaties from 1996, the same treaties the US claims are implemented by their Hollywood-inspired Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Eighteen hundred Canadians had signed the Petition for Users’ Rights calling on parliament to reject most of what was later included in Bill C-60.
Copyright 2005
Université du Québec à Montréal
320, Sainte-Catherine east, room DSR 510
Montréal, Québec, Canada
13h until 22h
Metro / subway, Berri-UQAM
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June 30th, 2005 at 6:25 pm
IP laws are anti-constitional in the PSA because they break the 1st amendment, really, now use the 2nd amendment and get rid of the illegal fascist regim !
July 3rd, 2005 at 2:46 am
That’s all great, but the subj, is clearly about Canada, not the US. There are no 1st, 3rd, 5th, or any other amendments to the constitution here. Hell, it was only re-patriated from Britain in 1982 and the last time they tried to change something the country near fell apart.
It’s too bad that Canada is run by people with complete ignorance of the people’s will, nor do they have any apparent urge to respond to that same will.
July 19th, 2005 at 7:30 pm
Canada should stoop down and follow the US stupid laws that they’re tryign to implement on Canadians. They love to stick their arses into every country nowdays.