Category: law

Copyright affects us all as we are all authors nowadays. At the same time few artists know how to work without infringing copyright. Various customs evolve, but they rarely have anything in common with black letter copyright law. This year, at CopyCamp Antonio Roberts will tell us more about such customs. Register: http://copycamp.pl/en/

Maksym Naumko will tell us at CopyCamp 2017 about challenges for digitisation projects in a state where there is no freedom of panorama and decommunization laws require that remains of the previous regime are removed. Next week! Register: http://copycamp.pl/en/

When we buy something, what does it mean exactly? This year at CopyCamp, Aaron Perzanowski (co-author, The End of Ownership) will tell us about property in the digital world. Register: http://copycamp.pl

Software paid for from public money should be available under a free license with full source code and documentation. We are one of signatories of the open letter prepared by the Free Software Foundation Europe as a part of the PMPC campaign (https://publiccode.eu/). FSFE is one of CopyCamp partners and they will be talking about PMPC at the conference this year.

Where lies the boundary between inspiration and appropriation? Can designers draw from culture? Why practices common a few decades ago are no longer acceptable? Ariele Elia – Department Coordinator for the MFA Fashion Design program at the New York Fashion Institute of Technology, will talk about appropriation in fashion at CopyCamp this year. Register: http://copycamp.pl/en/

We have just updated the list of our CopyCamp workshops with one more meeting. It will be about researching the impact of expanding user rights in copyright. The workshop will be conducted by: Teresa Nobre (Communia), Paul Keller (Kennisland), and Sean Flynn (American University Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property). Register: https://copycamp.pl/en/info/workshops/ (photo: Daniel Mee, Workshop, flickr, CC-BY)

Before looking under the hood of an autonomous vehicle – consult your lawyer. Iga Bałos will tell us why at CopyCamp. Admission is free, but seat number is limited. Register today at: http://copycamp.pl/en/

We are happy to announce the programme of this year’s CopyCamp. Admission is free, but seat number is limited, so register quickly at www.copycamp.pl!

We have just received our printed copy of the German Linux Magazin, featuring news about CopyCamp ! This year we will pay particular attention to exchange of Polish-German experiences in copyright issues. We invite everyone interested to join us!

Are young people interested in shaping the future EU law? Bernhard Hayden, net activist, will tell us at CopyCamp about the campaign of the Young Pirates of Europe which aims to involve young people in fighting for a more user-friendly copyright law.