If you write a music/MP3 blog, a law/copyright blog, or you are a podcaster and would like to come to the ORG press briefing on copyright term extension for sound recordings, 2pm on Monday 13th November, please contact Michael with your URL and preferred email address and we’ll send you a proper invitation with all [...]

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Should the term of copyright protection on sound recordings stay at 50 years or be extended?
This question has been hanging in the air for the last couple of years, with the music industry lobbying government for an extension on the grounds that the royalties they earn from old recordings are essential to bringing new [...]

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The next London Copyfighters Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop will be held on Sunday 22 October. We will meet upstairs at the Mason’s Arms, 51 Upper Berkeley Street, Marble Arch at 12 noon for brunch. The Mason’s Arms is on the corner of Berkeley Street and Seymour Place.
Once we are suitably lubricated (at around 2pm) [...]

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The next Copyfighters’ Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop will be held on Sunday 27 July, and it will be chaired by Dr Ian Brown. We will meet upstairs at the Mason’s Arms, 51 Upper Berkeley Street, Marble Arch at 12noon for brunch. The Mason’s Arms is on the corner of Berkeley Street and Seymour Place.
Once [...]

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Scrambling for Safety 8 is taking place on the 14th August at University College, London, where the focus will be on the Home Office’s access to keys and communications data code of practice consultations.
Those unable to make the main event are invited to the Jeremy Bentham pub on University St., WC1, to join attendees and [...]

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Last Sunday saw the latest edition of the London Copyfighter’s Drunken Brunch & Talking Shop. Led by our founding pledger, the EFF’s Danny O’ Brien, we had a great turnout, including many new faces tempted by the irresistible combination of sunshine, mixed drinks and heated IPR debate.

Danny O’Brien opens proceedings (photo by Yoz)
For readers not [...]

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The next London Copyfighters’ Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop will be held on Sunday 16 July, and it will be chaired by Danny O’Brien. We will meet upstairs at the Mason’s Arms, 51 Upper Berkeley Street, Marble Arch at 12noon for brunch. The Mason’s Arms is on the corner of Berkeley Street and Seymour Place.
Once [...]

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We had the monthly London Copyfighter’s Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop on Sunday, and despite the rain we had a good turn out. There are a few photos on Flickr, but it was a dismal day and my camera doesn’t much like the rain.
I think we actually had some of the most persistent heckling [...]

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The next London Copyfighters’ Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop will be held on Sunday 21 May. We will meet upstairs at the Mason’s Arms, 51 Upper Berkeley Street, Marble Arch at 12noon for brunch. The Mason’s Arms is on the corner of Berkeley Street and Seymour Place.
Once we are suitably lubricated (at around 2pm) [...]

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Last month, Cory Doctorow passed over the reins of the London Copyfighers’ Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop to ORG, and yesterday we had our first brunch in the new format - a picnic in Hyde Park, followed then by the traditional oration at Speakers’ Corner.
Unfortunately for us, my prediction a month ago that we’d break [...]

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