[LINK] LawTechTalk: The Democratic Deficit in Copyright Law: A Legislative

[Antony Barry]

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> From: "David Vaile" <d.vaile at unsw.edu.au>
> Date: 17 July 2007 6:56:41 PM
> Subject: LawTechTalk: The Democratic Deficit in Copyright Law: A  
> Legislative Proposal - 25 July 1-2 UNSW
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> UNSW's Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre and Linux Australia invite you
> to a free seminar in the 2007 Cyberspace Law and Policy Series:
>
> 'The Democratic Deficit in Copyright Law: A Legislative Proposal'
> 	
>  Speaker: 	Maureen O'Sullivan,
> 		National University of Ireland, Galway
>
>  Date: 	Wednesday 25 July 2007	
>  Time: 	1:00 to 2:00 pm, including time for questions
> 	
>  Venue: 	Room 101, first floor
> 		Faculty of Law building
> 		UNSW lower campus (near Roundhouse), Kensington, Sydney
>   Map: 	<http://www.unsw.edu.au/maps/kensington.pdf>
> 	
> This talk by visiting international IP researcher Maureen O'Sullivan
> considers issues in Free/Libre and/or Open Source Software (FLOSS)
> licensing, particularly as manifest in the recently finalised GPL  
> v3 and
> their impact on Spanish-speaking or civil code countries, and her
> proposal for an international standard law to help free software
> licenses work the same in all users' countries. For a discussion of
> earlier drafts of the proposal, see
> <http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/free_software_act/>
> 	
> Maureen O'Sullivan
> <http://www.nuigalway.ie/law/Staff/maureen_osullivan.html> is a  
> lecturer
> in law, based at National University of Ireland, Galway. Maureen's
> research and teaching interests span intellectual property in the
> digital age, including FLOSS and Creative Commons licensing,  
> patents and
> genetically modified organisms, Information Society policy making,
> especially in Spain and Latin America, and theoretical approaches to
> intellectual property.
>
> Entry is free, no need to book. If you are coming from off campus  
> please
> RSVP to feedback [at] cyberlawcentre.org.
>
> Details also at:
> <http://cyberlawcentre.org/2007/talks/ltt_osullivan.htm>
>
> Hope to see you there,
> David
>
>
> David Vaile
> Executive Director
> Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, UNSW
>
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