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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For most of the last year, I’ve been going to Cory Doctorow’s Copyfighters’ Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop, a monthly (ish) gathering of copyright activists where we sit about and eat brunch, talk about copyright, and drink Mimosa (that’s ‘Buck’s Fizz’ if you’re a Brit) before going over to Speaker’s Corner to harangue the crowd. [...]

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The Open Rights Group is proud to announce that Cory Doctorow, outgoing European Co-Ordinator for the EFF, novelist and editor of BoingBoing.net, will be our special guest speaker at our second networking evening on 7 Feb 2006.
Don’t let Hollywood hijack your rights
Cory Doctorow
American entertainment companies say they’re fighting piracy, but they’re going at it by [...]

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We are planning the next ORG event for the evening of Tues 7 Feb, at 01Zero-One in Soho again. Keep the evening free, and there’ll be more information on speakers and registration soon.

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The slightly strange thing about trying to write up the inaugural ORG event is that having spent my time arranging it, and being the person MCing it, my experience of it wasn’t the same as that of the people who came and who made it such a success. I had my expectations of what I [...]

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We are pretty close to full on the event, but if you either can’t come and previous had said you could, or if you want to come, let us know before 4.00pm this afternoon. After that, I can’t reply to emails and you should just try pitching up to the door.
To say that this event [...]

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The emergence of new communications technologies has radically changed the civil rights landscape in our society. Privacy, intellectual property, and access to knowledge are just some of the areas where digital rights are being eroded by government and big business.
The Open Rights Group (ORG) would like to invite you to an evening of digital rights [...]

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