CopyNight Ottawa

[CopyNight] Copynight Ottawa Cancelled

Greetings all,
Due to a lack of interest, I saddened to have to cancel CopyNight indefinitely. I won't rule out a future special event, especially if we see copyright reform legislation from the current minority government. So please stay subscribed to this list if you wish to be privy to such an event. But there will be no more regular meetings.
If anyone else wants to give it a go, please contact me. Otherwise, thank you for your interest.
Jeremy

[CopyNight] Reminder

Hi everyone,
A reminder that Tuesday, Sept 26 (aka tomorrow/tonight) is CopyNight. Like always, it is at The Royal Oak (on Laurier) from 6pm to 7:30pm and everyone is welcome. So please come out, have a beverage and discuss Copyright issues including whether a copyright reform bill is in the pipeline and what we can do about it.
Hope to see you there,
Jeremy

[CopyNight] Reminder

Hi all,
A quick reminder that CopyNight is tonight, Monday August 21, instead of the usual Tuesday. Like always, it is at The Royal Oak (on Laurier) from 6pm to 7:30pm and everyone is welcome.
So please come out, have a beverage, discuss Copyright issues and if you wish, also participate in the test election being held at the same time featuring a new open source and user auditable election system. <Punchscan.org>
See you there,
Jeremy

[CopyNight] Aug Date Shifted

Hi all,
This is an early warning that August's CopyNight will be held on Monday 21, 2006--a day earlier than the usual 4th Tuesday of the month. As usual, it is at The Royal Oak (on Laurier) from 6pm to 7:30pm and everyone is welcome.
CopyNight is being moved so it can be held in conjunction with the first test election of a new open voting system. While unrelated to Copyright issues, hopefully many of you will be interested in both. You can read more at <Punchscan.org>.
So please come out, have a beverage, discuss Copyright issues, and if you wish, also cast a vote in perhaps the first open and user-auditable election.
Jeremy Clark

CopyNight Ottawa Message

Hey everyone,
Tonight's Copynight. Like last time, it�s being held at The Royal Oak (on Laurier) from 6pm to 7:30pm and everyone is welcome.
In terms of topic, here is my suggestion for potential conversation fodder:
EFF and Libraries Support Google Image Search Against Adult Website
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of library organizations filed a brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday supporting Google Image Search in a showdown over critical digital copyright issues. Adult entertainment publisher Perfect 10 claims that Google's Image Search service violates copyright law by indexing Perfect 10 photos posted on unauthorized websites, then making and delivering thumbnail images of those photos in its search results. Perfect 10 also contends that Google should be held liable for any copyright infringement that occurs on sites that Google links to. "Perfect 10 wants to hold Google responsible for the misdeeds of the websites it links to," said Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von Lohmann. "No search engine could survive if that were the rule, nor, for that matter, could most bloggers or other web publishers. If Perfect 10 succeeds in convincing the court that in-line linking and framing
of images constitutes a public display or distribution of copyrighted work, then millions of web publishers and bloggers will suddenly be on the wrong side of copyright law�as well as the millions of web users who may follow a link to a website with infringing content." For full story, see <http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_07.php#004836>;.
See you there,
Ambrese

CopyNight Ottawa Message

Dear CopyNighters,
Thanks everyone for attending May's inaugural CopyNight. Tomorrow, June 27th, is your next chance to talk tech and information policy. Like last time, it�s being held at The Royal Oak (on Laurier) at 6pm and everyone is welcome.
The suggested theme for this month�s Copynight is: Competing Interests: Making Copyright Fun vs. Making Fun of Copyright.
Below are some �fun� copyright-related links.
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Exhibit A � Captain Copyright
Have you seen the Captain Copyright (www.captaincopyright.ca) website? If not, you might be interested to see that he even tries to give a kid-friendly explanation of moral rights:
�A creator�s right to be associated with his or her work; the right not to have the work used in a way that offends the creator; and the creator�s right to the integrity of the work (for example, a sculptor has the right to decide if his or her sculpture can be painted). Moral rights cannot be transferred to anyone else. However, the creator of a work can decide not to exercise his or her moral rights.�
Exhibit B -- Bound By Law? Tales From the Public Domain.
Law professors Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins co-wrote and produced the comic book Bound By Law? Tales From the Public Domain. It explores the legal barriers documentary filmmakers in particular must hurdle, or simply avoid. A free digital version is available online: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.html
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Please feel free to email me any with comments, suggestions, or topic ideas.
See you tomorrow,
Ambrese
Copynight Ottawa