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Internet Governance Forum: Open Standards, A2K and Conclusions
The first Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is now over after two more rather busy days. Time for some recap, some announcements, and some conclusions. Wednesday, 1 November: day 3 The big news in the morning of the third day was … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, IGF, Politics, UN
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Internet Governance Forum, day two
The second day of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was partially strange, partially funny, and indeed quite productive. The day began with a main hall session about “Openness”, the whole protocol of which is already online here. As one might … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, IGF, Politics, UN
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Inauguration of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
Today is the first day of the inauguration meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens, Greece. The IGF is an outcome of the second phase of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and follows … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, IGF, Politics, UN
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Sign up against cultural repression in Brazil
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), two organisations that have achieved questionable fame with their lawsuits against young children and grandparents in the United States (also see the resources of the … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, Politics
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European Commission seeking position on DRM (and it doesn’t look good)
[ copied here from DRM.info, original posting: “European Commission seeking position on DRM” ] IP-Watch.org reports that “EU Online Content Stakeholders Debate DRM“, which demonstrates the need for a much more informed debate on Digital Restrictions Management. On the one … Continue reading
Lifting the veil on DRM in different ways
[ The following article was first posted on DRM.info. It is copied here for the convenience of readers of the Fellowship. ] In the entire discussion on Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) there are multiple problems that prevent broader discussion and … Continue reading
Back from Day against DRM Protest in Zürich
An exciting day is coming to an end now. You can read a short account of our Day against DRM protest in downtown Zürich on my other blog on DRM.info, so I won’t repeat the same story here, but I … Continue reading
Tagged DRM, Fellowship, FSF, Switzerland
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DAY AGAINST DRM: Launch of DRM.info, the DRM awareness portal
To describe the past weeks running up on 3 October as hectic would be a major understatement. Within very short time, a group of dedicated FSFE people put together a collaborative effort among digital liberty, new media, consumer protection and … Continue reading
Tagged DRM, Fellowship, FSF, Politics
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WIPO General Assembly: Broadcasting Treaty, Development Agenda and better NGO participation
Because FSFE is about to open an office in Zürich and we’re also preparing some interesting actions for next week, I’m currently quite pressed for time. That is why I decided to shorten my stay at the WIPO General Assembly … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, Politics, UN, WIPO
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Piracy redefined, and other gems from Helsinki
End of last week I found myself at a seminar of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) in Helsinki, Finland. The seminar was titled "IPR Protection of Software: Copyright, Patent and/or Open Source?" and sponsors were in … Continue reading
Tagged Antitrust, Conference, Free Software, FSF, GPL, Microsoft, Politics
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