Piratpartiet får ställa upp i riksdagsvalet, rapporterar Computer Sweden. De 1500 signaturerna har nu lämnats in.

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The FSF have now put video from the GPLv3 conference online. Grab the torrent and watch Stallman and Moglen explain the first draft of GPLv3 (OGG Theora video)

I have just downloaded it and I look forward to watching the “full walk-through of the new license text by Eben Moglen, FSF general counsel and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center” tomorrow.

In an interview with LinuxP2P, Richard Stallman discusses some problems with the Creative Commons licenses.

Some Creative Commons licenses are free licenses; most permit at least noncommercial verbatim copying. But some, such as the Sampling Licenses and Developing Countries Licenses, don’t even permit that, which makes them unacceptable to use for any kind of work. All these licenses have in common is a label, but people regularly mistake that common label for something substantial.

He has a point, you know. I agree that the mentioned licenses are definitely non-free and, even if I would perhaps not go as far as saying that they are “unacceptable to use for any kind of work”, I can’t see a situation where I would use them.

Stallman also points to a real problem when he points out that far too many people don’t look “behind” the CC logo. The basic “Creative Commons License” is actually six very different licenses and there there are a few special licenses, like sampling and developing nations. To just say that something is CC licensed is not very informative. (related old rant)

This is now also on Slashdot

There’s an article on Forbes.com about how book publishers Random House have been sued because some things in James Frey’s 2003 “memoir” A Million Little Pieces may not have been true. Lawyers are now seeking millions of dollars in damages from allegedly defrauded consumers. One lawyer even wants the publisher to pay consumers for the time they spent reading the book!

“I don’t think the purchasing price is enough for those people who really feel a sense of betrayal, who had real emotions created by this book,” said Meyers. “They wouldn’t have read it if they knew it wasn’t true.”

ROTFL!

tipped off by Gnu Girl

There have been some comments suggesting that there are plans for a Finnish “Information Society Party”. What their agenda will be remains to be seen, of course, but it sure sounds much better than “Piratpartiet“.

Vad har de för konstig teknik på riksdagen? Jag försökte titta på inspelningar från gårdagens immaterialrättsdebatt men:

Det tal du vill se väntar nu på att hämtas. Det är 2 andra tal som väntar på att hämtas. Du bör kunna se talet om 27 minuter, men det kan gå fortare eller ta längre tid. Du måste klicka på talarens namn för att se om hämtningen är klar eller inte.

Inga Chernyak, president of the NYU chapter of FreeCulture.org was fired from her job at an IP law firm for holding “incompatible views”. This recent Village Voice article was the reason.

Hopefully, the situation here in Sweden is slightly better. For example, Stellan and I received a grant from Awapatent (Swedish patent/IPR consultants) to cover the costs of printing our thesis on CC licensing.

via Slashdot

“Bodströms buggning hotar vår grundlag“skriver Nuri Kino i dagens Stockholm City.

Och i går kallade Alf Svensson och Tommy Lindström “Bodström en fara för rättssäkerheten” på DN debatt.

Det artar sig.