CopyNight Seattle

LAST CopyNight Seattle - Tomorrow!

Hello All,
I have decided to cease running CopyNight after this month due to the unsustainably low turnout, but I would like to invite you all to come out one last time for the final Seattle CopyNight, tomorrow, February 26, at 8:30 PM at the Elysian Brewery, 1221 E. Pike. It's been a lot of fun hosting this event over the past year and a half, and I would like to encourage everybody to attend some of the great geek events that have sprung up around town:
Seattle Saturday House, www.saturdayhouse.org - Seattle Saturday House is a weekly gathering of several people who meet and do ... whatever they want! People work on projects, people talk about ideas, people conspire and hatch plans, and people play games with each other. It's been called "BarCamp every Saturday," though it's a bit smaller than BarCamp.
Ignite Seattle, igniteseattle.com - Ignite is a series of geek nights in Seattle. It is hosted by Brady Forrest of O�Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Make. The nights feature a series of fast-paced, short-form tech talks, and occasionally feature a Make contest (like a popsicle bridge-building contest) as well. The event is thrown every couple of months at the Capitol Hill Arts Center.
Thanks for coming to CopyNight, and I hope to see you at our last hurrah tomorrow!
Riana

CopyNight Seattle: It's That Time Again!

Happy New Year! Come ring in 2008 (a little belatedly) with the year's first CopyNight, tomorrow, Tuesday the 22nd, at the Elysian brewery in Capitol Hill. 1221 E. Pike Street, 8:30 PM. Predict what IP issues will be big this year, learn about upcoming events, and have a beer or three. Hope to see you there!

CopyNight Seattle, This Tuesday!

Hey CopyNighters,
Come join us for the last CopyNight of 2007 on Tuesday at 8:30 PM at the Elysian, 1221 E. Pike St. in Capitol Hill. We won't be meeting in December, so this will be your last chance until the new year to discuss such exciting topics as the latest bad ideas about copyright to surface in Congress, Larry Lessig's PowerPoint chops, or the pressure being exerted by the Copyright Alliance (which counts the MPAA and RIAA among its member) on presidential candidates to take a position in favor of even more expansion of copyright law:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071121-riaampaa-ask-presidential-candidates-for-more-restrictive-copyright-laws.html
See you on Tuesday!
Riana

CopyNight Is Tomorrow, Tuesday, at 8:30!

Hey Seattle CopyNighters,
Just a follow-up to yesterday's message to remind you that CopyNight will be tomorrow, Tuesday the 23rd, at 8:30 PM at the Elysian brewery, 1221 E. Pike St. in Capitol Hill. Have a beer and talk about the latest news from the copyfight.
On behalf of our Washington Lawyers for the Arts members, I'd like to take a moment to promote a great event the WLA is hosting on Thursday, Nov. 8 at Central Cinema. It's a variety show to benefit local artists who need legal assistance. Tickets are only $20. It should be a lot of fun, so please come! More info is available here, along with a pretty flyer for you to print up and hand out to every person you know (and some you don't):
http://www.thewla.org/RelatedEvents.html
See you tomorrow at CopyNight, and Nov. 8 at the WLA benefit!
Riana

Recording labels win first illegal file-sharing suit to go to trial

A federal jury awarded six recording companies $222,000 Thursday in Virgin v. Thomas, the first music file-sharing lawsuit to go to trial, ordering Jammie Thomas to pay for sharing 24 copyrighted songs on the Internet. Record companies have filed over 26,000 lawsuits since 2003 over file-sharing, resulting in small settlements for most cases, including 8,000 cases filed against 17 defendants worldwide last October.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/10/recording-labels-win-first-illegal-file.php

Copyright Book Event - This Wednesday!

Hi CopyNighters,
A new book by a UW Communications professor looks like it would be of interest to this list. Prof. Harold is having a couple of events in October to promote her book. Check them out!

Book events for OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture by Christine Harold
In OurSpace, Christine Harold examines the deployment and limitations of "culture jamming" by activists. For Harold, it is a different type of opposition that offers a genuine alternative to corporate consumerism. Exploring the revolutionary Creative Commons movement, copyleft, and open source technology, Harold advocates a more inclusive approach to intellectual property that invites innovation and wider participation in the creative process.
Christine Harold is a professor in the Department of Communications at the University of Washington. Her previous position was assistant professor of speech communication at the University of Georgia.
Book Event
Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 7:30 pm
Talk & Book Signing
Elliott Bay Book Company
101 South Main Street
Seattle, Washington 98104
206-624-6600
Book Event
Saturday, October 27, 2007, 6:30 pm
Talk & Book Signing
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
206-366-3316
More information available at:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/harold_ourspace.html

Lessig Lecture at UW, Nov. 2

Hey all,
Thanks to those who were able to make it out to CopyNight last night. We chatted about who might be a suitable replacement for Larry Lessig as the head of the Creative Commons. I learned today that Prof. Lessig will be giving a lecture on the UW campus on Friday, Nov. 2, at 7:00 PM in room 130 of Kane Hall. His topic: "Is Google (2008) Microsoft (1998)?"
Mark your calendars! More information here:
http://www.grad.washington.edu/lectures/schedule.htm#Lawrence%20Lessig
Hope you can make it!
Riana

CopyNight Seattle Tomorrow!

Hello CopyNighters,
We're back from our August break! Come on down to the Elysian Brewing Company tomorrow, Tuesday the 25th, at 8:30 PM, and ease into a new school year with a beer or two and the happy knowledge you're not at Harvard, facing make-believe claims of intellectual property in your textbooks' ISBNs:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519564
The Elysian is at 1221 E. Pike St. in Capitol Hill. Hope to see you there!
Riana

CopyNight Seattle Tonight @ Cafe Press

Hello CopyNighters, It's time for another session of CopyNight!

Please join us tonight (Tuesday) at 8:30 PM at Cafe Press in Capitol Hill at 1117 12th Ave. This is a new location with WIFI. The location is also all ages with a good reasonably priced menu and drinks.

Topics will include:

Harry Potter and Pirate Bay

RIAA at UW

Free Culture in Seattle

See you there,

-Brian Rowe Freedom for Intellectual Prosperity

CopyNight Seattle Message

Hello CopyNighters, It's time for another session of CopyNight! Please join us tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8:30 PM at Cafe Press in Capitol Hill at 1117 12th Ave. This is a new location with WIFI. The location is also all ages with a good reasonably priced menu and drinks. Topics will include: Harry Potter and Pirate Bay RIAA at UW Free Culture in Seattle For those interested Sunday July 22nd, at 5pm Free Culture will be holding an online meeting to discuss the various ways that people can volunteer with FreeCulture.org and advance the cause of free culture among students everywhere. It will take place in our IRC channel at #freeculture in irc.freenode.net. See you there, -Brian Rowe Freedom for Intellectual Prosperity

CopyNight Seattle Message

Hello CopyNighters,
It's time for another session of CopyNight! Please join us tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8:30 PM at the Elysian Brewing Company, 1221 E. Pike in Capitol Hill.
Topics will include:
Lessig leaving the copyfight for corruption
The Pirate Party � US
Sarah and Brian�s visit to EFF and Creative Common trip
Don�t forget lots of free stickers
See you there,
-Brian Rowe