ORGCON
Event Info
Wed 21 Jul, 2010 from 10:00am - 6:30pm
College Building, City University London,
St John Street
EC1, UK
Cost: Free (if you register) - £5 existing supporters - £10 general public
Description
We'll have training sessions about how to lobby your MP and more volunteer workshops. There'll also be discussions on the state of UK politics after #GE2010 and why this is a key moment to push harder for reform on digital issues from surveillance to copyright to DRM. The keynote speaker will be James Boyle, a founder of the modern movement to recognize, protect, and grow the intellectual commons.
Sessions will include
- James Boyle on the future of copyright, in London especially for this talk
- Thriving in the Real Digital Economy: Cory Doctorow talks and then chairs a panel of artists.
- Digital Economy Act: What's Next? (Tom Watson, Eric Joyce, Julian Huppert)
- What is the 'Right to Data'? (Heather Brooke, Rufus Pollock)
- Opening up the Data Protection Directive: Can of Worms or Opportunity
- Dismantling the Database State (NO2ID, ARCH, Big Brother Watch)
- Theft! A History of Music (Jennifer Jenkins)
- ACTA: A Shady Business (La Quadrature du Net, Becky Hogge)
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