(D') Evolution Summit

Del 29 al 31 de marzo en Barcelona. Cumbre ciudadana para abrir las mentes de los ministros de cultura de la Comunidad Europea, que se reunirán en Barcelona en el marco de la Presidencia Española de la Unión Europea.
Los días 30 y 31 de marzo, los ministros de cultura de los 27 países de la Unión Europea (UE) se reunirán en Barcelona con motivo del Congreso de la Industria Cultural que tiene el elocuente título "La economía de la cultura".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MtV8iviuVs

From march 29 to 31, 2010. A civil society meeting to open the minds of the European Community's Ministers of Culture gathered in Barcelona, as part of the program of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union.
On March 30 and 31 the Ministers of Culture of the 27 countries of the European Union (EU) will gather in Barcelona around the Forum of Cultural Industries eloquently entitled "The Economy of Culture".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am7VaPYoeFs

When using open source makes you an enemy of the state

· The US copyright lobby has long argued against open source software - now Indonesia's in the firing line for encouraging the idea in government departments.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property

It's only Tuesday and already it's been an interesting week for the world of digital rights. Not only did the British government changed the wording around its controversial 'three strikes' proposals, but the secretive anti-counterfeiting treaty, Acta, was back in the headlines. Meanwhile, a US judge is still deliberating over the Google book settlement.

As if all that wasn't enough, here's another brick to add to the teetering tower of news, courtesy of Andres Guadamuz, a lecturer in law at the University of Edinburgh.

Guadamuz has done some digging and discovered that an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider open source as the equivalent of piracy - or even worse.

What?

It turns out that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its "Special 301 watchlist" because they use open source software.

What's Special 301? It's a report that examines the "adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights" around the planet - effectively the list of countries that the US government considers enemies of capitalism. It often gets wheeled out as a form of trading pressure - often around pharmaceuticals and counterfeited goods - to try and force governments to change their behaviours.
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Intellectual Property - EU-Canada CETA

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24220435

$1.9M file-share verdict stuns Minnesota mom

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-06-18-music-downloading_N.htm

A replay of the nation's only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result — a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry.
A federal jury ruled Thursday that Jammie Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs, and awarded recording companies $1.92 million, or $80,000 per song.

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