January 5, 2010 - 4:29pm
The first annual World's Fair Use Day is almost upon us! The festivities kick off on Monday, January 11th, with an ACTA discussion and happy hour hosted by Google, followed by a "Movie Night," consisting of clips from the films RIP: A Remix Manifesto and Copyright Criminals with a discussion between directors Brett Gaylor and Kembrew McLeod, hosted by Negativland's Mark Hosler, to follow. The main event kicks off the next day and will feature Congressman Mike Doyle, TechDirt's Mike Masnick, "Garfield Minus Garfield" creator Dan Walsh, filmmaker and cartoonist Nina Paley and many more creators, innovators, policymakers and academics. Finally, we'll end the night on a high note, with a happy hour featuring a DJ set from DJ Earworm, whose "United State of Pop 2009" mash-up is currently being played on radio stations from coast to coast. World's Fair Use Day is free and open to the public but seating for all events is limited, so be sure to RSVP by visiting our new site at http://wfud.info. See you next week!
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The purpose of this event, sponsored by Google and conducted by people who claim to be acting in the “public interest” but in fact are paid by Google, is actually not to encourage reasonable fair use but to weaken all copyright protection (an agenda from which multi-billion dollar monopoly Google would profit at the expense of artists and other creators of content).
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