"FSF's John Sullivan will talk about copyleft, copyright, the War on Sharing, and the GNU/Linux free software operating system at the Connecticut Film Festival." -- via Copyleft and the War on Sharing - Free Software Foundation

"...What needs to happen is that people need to see beyond these bureaucracies and determine the rights that they wish to have and see others have. If - and only if - the majority of people view their human rights as encompassing their ability to create and imagine - will there be a change. They can wear the colors of the FSF, they can contribute to the Wikipedia, or they could have their own 15 megabytes of fame somewhere. There is no name for this other than deciding the future. You can throw money at any organization and expect them to do things for you - but that is the same mentality which created the present system..."

Open Source software was at the heart of multimedia coverage of this year's National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. The Cue Online website is powered by Drupal, while CuePix is running a vanilla installation of Menalto's Gallery2. Cue is the official festival newspaper.

"Hello, finally. This is an unusual talk in which I'm going to start by explaining the ideas of free software, and then go on to talk about how they extend to some things other than software.

Tim Berners-Lee says US government plan to censor the internet violates human rights.

"...In the Free Software and Education conference I attended in Quito, Ecuador last month, I met a most interesting person, GianMarco Schiesaro, who gave a very interesting presentation, entitled: Free Software and Human Rights. I’m not aware that this particular relationship has been investigated many times.

The Free Software for Movie industry workshop was conducted this morning as the part of 13th International Film Festival of Kerala IIFFK) 2008. Delegates, film Makers, editors, sound engineers, graphic designers and students attended this event.

The principles of open source software and the film and record companies' perceived need to control how film, video and audio recordings are consumed seem incompatible. This article explores the issues.

SourceCode video on the subject of human rights versus corporate rights, which are a somewhat recent phenomenon
TechRIGHTS wishes to share the following good episode from the show "SourceCode" (2005). The early parts touch on the subject of rights.