Copyfight and Speakers Corner

Charlie and I headed up to London last Sunday to attend Copyfight. We interviewed users’ rights activists and some speeches at Speakers Corner. The show was a nightmare to edit but the whole experience was a real blast nonetheless. We hope you enjoy the show. We sure as heck enjoyed making it.

Show Notes

• Charlie and I shoot the bull about Copyfight, Speakers Corner and DRM
• Jose interviews Louise Ferguson and Suw Charman with the Open Rights Group
• Cory Doctorow kicks things off at Speakers Corner
• Mystery man no 1 (right) gives a great speech
• Mystery man no 2 delivers a great theatrical rant

Meme Therapy thanks

Gambling man Glyn Wintle with the Open Rights Group for giving us the low down.
Louise Ferguson, Chair of the ORG for going under my mic. This was my first voice interview and I’m afraid I was a bit blunt with her. I don’t think I could have been more off putting if I tried. She endured my ham handed interview technique well though. Cheers Louise.
Suw Charman, Executive Director of the ORG, for also putting up with my bull in the china shop interviewing skills. Suw’s a class act, she even made me look good.
Salim Fadhley, with Resonance FM, for contributing photos that were better than the ones we took. He’s got a Flickr set of the Speakers Corner gig here.

Cory Doctorow for his time and his booze

Transformer Di Roboter for letting us use their awesome single Hi End as our Meme music. Buy their cool stuff here.

Supporting Memes
Electronic Frontier Foundation fighting the good fight in the USA
SmartFilter blocking Boing Boing? Check out Mark Christian’s Distributed Boing Boing
Brits can fire off a salvo of Memes on the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property here

Fellow Canucks can fill out a Users’ Rights petition here

Read up on Digital Rights Management on Wikipedia

Episode 04

Check us out next week when we discuss Science Fiction that gets political and real world politics that’s getting science fictional with commentary from Cory Doctorow.

Thank you kindly for stopping by. Stay out of trouble.

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