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[John Howkins <john AT johnhowkins.com>]

In case people are interested (and with apologies to any cross-posting)

The RSA will be launching its Intellectual Property Charter (under a new
name) on Thursday 13 October at the RSA, 8 John Adam Street, off the Strand,
London 6-7.30pm.

The charter lays out policy principles for creativity, innovation and
intellectual property and provides a public interest test for IP law.

Background, inc a list of the Commission members, can be found at
www.ipcharter.org.

Keynote speakers will include John Sulston, Nobel Laureate who mapped the
human genome; James Boyle, Professor of Law at Duke Uni and Board member,
Creative Commons; as well as Cory Doctorow, EFF, and Lynne Brindley, CEO
British Library.

It's an open meeting, and free; but please if you can reserve a ticket via
mairi.ryan AT rsa.org.uk; or via me john AT johnhowkins.com.

Thanks John








On 21/9/05 2:02, "Rufus Pollock" <rufus.pollock AT okfn.org> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> A while back I wrote about William St Clair's book: The Reading Nation
> in the Romantic period which presented in fascinating and painstaking
> detail the effect of copyright on access to knowledge in the 17th and
> 18th century (you can read summary at: http://drn.okfn.org/node/46).
> Unfortunately, and rather ironically, CUP were retailing it at £90.
> 
> However now a highly condensed version is available in the form of the
> second of the John Coffin Memorial lectures on the history of the book
> entitled ³The Political Economy of Reading². Even better it is available
> under a Creative Commons license and I am reliably informed that this is
> the first time that such a license has been used by the University of
> London in their publications. The online version is here:
> 
>    http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Publications/johncoffin/stclair.pdf
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rufus Pollock
> 
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