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Category Archives: Copyright
Massachusetts Pirate Party In Search of Interns.
The Massachusetts Pirate Party is looking for interns to assist with the development and growth of the party, running candidates, marketing and press, and creating educational content. If you are an internet activist or just want to learn more about … Continue reading
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House GOP yanks copyright reform proposal, we put it up
Recently the House GOP put forward a decent proposal to reform copyright laws. It didn’t go as far as we would, but it called out the zombie myths of the copyright cartel, noted how copyright is hindering innovation and offered … Continue reading
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May 12th Free Film Fest Schedule
While we are a bit preoccupied with stopping the CISPA spy bill (more on that in the next blog post), we finalized the schedule for our May 12th Free Open Film Fest. Please spread the word about it. We will … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Fun and Games, Out And About, Patents
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Copyright Battle Tactics Talk Posted
Michael Anderson’s conference talk, Copyright Battle Tactics, is now up at our Youtube page. You can find the other talks we posted at our 2012 conference page. Tweet
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Join us at Together Boston this week
Captain James O’Keefe will be speaking tomorrow at Together Boston‘s Patently Stupid panel. Together Boston is a Electronic Music Festival in Cambridge and Boston that runs until Sunday, April 8th. The panel will be this Wednesday, April 4th at noon … Continue reading
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Some Conference Videos Available
Processing the videos of the conference is taking a bit of time, unfortunately, but Erik has been toiling away. Thankfully, his efforts have been successful and two of the talks are currently available: Kopimism by Lauren Pespisa Campaign to Win … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Elections, Organizing, Out And About
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Conference Slides Decks Posted
Thanks to everyone who attended our conference, especially the speakers and volunteers. A number of speakers gave permission for us to post the slides of their talks (pdf): Kopimism by Lauren Pespisa Stranger Danger by Conor Sherman Patents Upending by … Continue reading
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Help Stop the ACTA!
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a treaty that the US government worked on in secret with other countries to bring the US’ draconian copyright laws to other countries. It will: lock us into obsolete copyright and patent laws; criminalize harmless remixes … Continue reading
Posted in ACTA, Censorship, Copyright, Economy
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Mass. Pirate Party Condemns Shutdown of Megaupload
Despite overwhelming, worldwide public opposition to the current trends in ever-tightening and ever more intrusive copyright laws and copyright enforcement, the Department of Justice has seized and shutdown Megaupload, a popular online service that is not based in the United … Continue reading
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Pirate Party Holds Rally to tell Senators Brown and Kerry: Don’t Censor the Net!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: James O’Keefe, 617-447-0210 PIRATE PARTY HOLDS RALLY TO TELL SENATORS BROWN AND KERRY: DON’T CENSOR THE NET! Boston, MA, December 6th, 2011 – At noon today, supporters of Internet freedom will tell Senators … Continue reading
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