[From nobody Sun Mar 12 19:39:15 2006
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:23:01 -0500
From: "Benj. Mako Hill" <mako@atdot.cc>
To: freeculture-discuss@lists.hcs.harvard.edu
Subject: MIT Lecture: Biella Coleman on Hackers and Law
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Greetings,

A friend of mine will be giving a talk at MIT's Department of Science,
Technology and Society that is very relevant to the whole free culture
thing. The talk is:

  At the Center and Margins of Liberalism: How Free and Open Source
  Software Hackers Destabilize Intellectual Property Law through the
  Novel Rearticulation of Free Speech Principles

Don't be intimidated by the long title. Biella spent a lot of time
studying free and open source software communities and the Debian
project in particular.  I've seen a number of talks by her at Debian
conferences in the past. They've all been good.

In my opinion, she's the social scientist who most deeply "groks" free
and open source with any sort of broad perspective.  If you're
interested in issues of free and open source software or free culture,
you'll probably learn something from Biella's talk.

The talk will be this Wednesday, March 15, between 4-6pm. It will be
in the MIT STS area at MIT in building E51, room 095. I highly
recommend folks come check it out.

Here's how to get there:
  http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51-095

More information is here:
  http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?event=6459607&location=http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/events-css/&groupid=362

Regards,
Mako

-- 
Benjamin Mako Hill
mako@media.mit.edu
http://mako.cc/

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so
far as society is free to use the results. --RMS
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