RMS - Copyright vs. Community - Canadian Tour

[Scott Elcomb]

From: http://www.fsf.org/events/rms-speeches.html
(Thanks to J. P. for pointing it out!)


2009-01-29 | The Free Software Movement

Waterloo, Canada. University of Waterloo. Hagey Hall Theatre of the
Humanities, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West.
Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which
campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control
their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed
the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux,
specifically to establish these freedoms. This talk will be accessible
to all audience and the public is encouraged to attend. Admission is
free.


2009-02-02 | Copyright vs. Community

Toronto, Ontario, Canada. room 1160, Bahen Center, 40 St. George
Street. 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.

-- 
  Scott Elcomb
  http://www.psema4.com/
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