Knowledge Held Hostage confr...

The conference was inspiring, amazing…and scary. I'm going to read over
my notes and post a short report here. In the meantime there's streaming
vid on their site, pics (yawn), and a transcript of general points made on
the panels and audience responses:

http://www.knowledgehostage.org/index.htm


Note: over a course of 8 hours there was only one soporific speaker, and
one totally insane bitch of a lawyer who seemed to come straight out of a
Phil K. Dick novel…. there was a guy named Bernard Timberg who likened
the struggle for fair use rights to the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
Civil Rights. It was pretty damn inspiring all around. But my fave speaker
was without a doubt Siva Vaidhyanathan (NYU) – you know the guy: he wrote
Copyrights & Copywrongs. His most recent opus is The Anarchist in the
Library: How the Clash Between Freedom & Control is Hacking the Real World
& Crashing the System:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465089844/qid87913132/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-4178326-2412611