So for those of you that haven’t already heard: it’s official! Boston has won the bid for the Wikimania 2006 conference. So basically that means that we need your help, from everything to thinking up speakers to developing software to coordinating international issues. The exact dates are still TBD, but it will be some time [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Feeling like procrastinating? Check out the amusing unauthorized account of Mr T vs. Jack Valenti (co-starring Jonathan Zittrain) in the fight for balanced copyright law.
Today I attended a panel at the annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School entitled “Grokster… So Who Won?” Speakers, including our own Terry Fisher and U Chicago’s Doug Lichtman seemed to be in agreement: nobody won.
The Grokster case, involving the question of whether P2P company Grokster could be held liable for [...]
Assuming he makes good on his word, Greg Aharonian, among other things maintainer of http://www.bustpatents.com, will be coming to speak at Harvard (for the Harvard Computer Society) on Thursday, November 3rd at 6:00 PM in Emerson 305.
Aharonian’s latest crusade is one against software copyrights and he’s asked us to argue with him so that he [...]
Well Harvard’s Free Culture chapter had its first (semi-official) meeting tonight, and we do indeed exist.
More to follow on events and campaigns..
