Doctorow at Speaker’s Corner
p2p news / p2pnet: Speaker’s Corner in the Marble Arch part of Hyde Park in London, England, is famous as THE place for soap box oration at its finest.
People from around the world go there to Tell The World, so it’s appropriate that on October 17, “the first speaker to take to the soapbox – well, stepladder – was Cory Doctorow, the European coordinator for civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation and the co-editor of the Boing Boing blog,” says Ingrid Marson on ZDNet.
“Doctorow said the music industry has often criticised new technologies, from the advent of radio in the early 1900s to today’s file sharing networks.
Then Ronaldo Lemos, director of the Center for Technology and Society at the Fundação Getulio Vargas law school in Brazil, “which recently advised Brazilian government on the its free software strategy,” talked about the link between copyright and creativity in Brazil, says Marson.
Other copyright activists who spoke included Salim Fadhley, an open source developer for the Plone CMS and Zope application server projects.
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