[rohrpost] Vortrag: Richard Stallman: Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks, 15.06.2011

[Ingeborg Reichle]

Öffentlicher Abendvortrag | 15.06.2011 19:00 Uhr

Richard Stallman: Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer
Networks

ÖFFENTLICHER ABENDVORTRAG
zur Feier des 10-jährigen Bestehens von TELOTA – The Electronic Life
Of The Academy

Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011, 19 Uhr

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt
Leibniz-Saal, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin

Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed
to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing
press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer
networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.

The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for
draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while
suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to
serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright – to promote progress,
for the benefit of the public – then we must make changes in the other
direction.

Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system
(see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the
freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes
either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU
operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of
computers today.

Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur
Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer
Award, and the Takeda Award for Social/ Economic Betterment, as well
as several honorary doctorates.

Programm

Grußwort
Günter Stock
Akademiepräsident

COPYRIGHT VERSUS COMMUNITY IN THE AGE OF COMPUTER NETWORKS
Richard Stallman
President of the Free Software Foundation, founder of the GNU Project
and author of the GNU General Public License

http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2011/juni/stallman