Vancouver Linux Users Group

Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

Copyright and Creativity
Freedom and User Rights

Geof Glass
Bill McGrath

Mon,17 November 2008 7:30 - 9:00 pm
BCIT, Building SW3, Room 1750
*** Note the different venue for this meeting ***

The federal election may have killed bill C-61, But you can be
sure that the issue of copyright has not gone away!

Geof Glass is a talented programmer of free software. He just
recently received the 2008 B.C. Innovation Award in Educational
Technology for Marginalia, a program that allows readers to
highlight text and insert margin notes on web pages. He is a
founding member of the Vancouver Fair Copyright Coalition.

Geoff will be speaking about the relationship between
copyright and creativity. Copyright is being transformed from
something that rewards artists and promotes creativity into
something that controls our communications infrastructure and
locks down our culture affecting the way in which we can engage
our society and our democracy.

Bill McGrath is a long time VanLUG member and Gnu/Linux
enthusiast. He is currently serving on the VanLUG board and
is also a founding member of the Vancouver Fair Copyright
Coalition, which is promoting balanced and enlightened
copyright legislation.

Bill will be speaking about Freedom and User Rights.
He is the principal author of "Digital Rights and Freedoms"
a work in progress that addresses the kind of information
freedoms users need in the digital era and the way in which
they are being denied.