[Sheflug] Alan Cox attacks the European DMCA

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

For those of you who may have missed it....

" Alan Cox has issued a wake up call to the Linux community amid 
concerns that the pending European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD) 
could stymie open source development.

The directive, which was approved last year, extends European 
copyright legislation so that it is even more restrictive than 
America's controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 
critics argue. National governments have until December 22 to 
incorporate the directive in national legislation. "

More info at...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04/30/alan_cox_attacks_the_european/

Alan will be with us on the 4th of February.  Although he is talking 
about the way that software engineering is taught and practiced you 
might be able to ask him questions about this after he has finished 
his talk.  He's most likely going to be around for our afternoon 
ShefLUG meeting as well.  More chance of asking him questions there.



-- 
Richard
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