Sunday afternoon, July 3rd 2005. A presentation of FACIL, Koumbit and LabCMO.

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About fifteen kiosks hosted by local and not so local Free Culture enthusiasts such as Debian, FreeCulture, KDE, île sans fil, Savoir Faire Linux; a press conference announcing the Semaine québécoise de l’informatique libre, a Free Software week; a Richard Stallman presentation on copyright; and finally, the answers to all your questions with Russell McOrmond (Flora), Daniel Pascot (Laval University) and Marcus Bornfreund (Ottawa University), responsible for the canadian adaptation of the Creative Commons licenses.

Conference website

OpenCity 2005 is a multi-venue, multi-discipline festival taking place in Winnipeg’s Exchange District from August 17 - 20, 2005.

OpenCity 2005 brings together academics, artists, activists, musicians, and Free and Open Source Software developers in a dialogue about and a celebration of citizen participation and shared culture.

To learn more visit the conference website.

Ottawa copyright lawyer Howard Knopf was quick to condemn the bill.

“It might as well have been called the Canadian Recording Industry of America Act,” he said. Read the Globe & Mail article.

The Public Library of Science leads the charge to transform how research is vetted and controlled, but just making the journals free and open may not go far enough. Read the Wired News article.

The Open Access Law Program, a part of the Science Commons publishing project, supports “open access” to legal scholarship. “Open Access” publishing provides free access to scholarly literature without undue copyright and licensing restrictions. This project is one part of the Science Commons Publishing Project, which itself is working to support open access to scholarly research in a wide range of disciplines including agriculture, entomology, biology, anthropology and now law. Learn more.

After a decade of copyright lawsuits in two countries over the Internet use of freelance writers’ work without additional compensation, some money is finally on the table.

But it’s a table in the United States, and Canadian writers are being asked to turn up their noses to the proposed class-action settlement. Read CANOE CNEWS article