0x26: FOSDEM 2012: Meeks on Copyright Assignment

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x26_Meeks-On-Copyright-Assignment.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x26_Meeks-On-Copyright-Assignment.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p>Karen and Bradley play and discuss <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/michael_meeks">Michael Meeks</a>'s FOSDEM 2012 talk, <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/risks_vs_benefits_on_copyright_assignment"><cite>Risks and Benefits of Copyright Assignment</a> from the <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/legal_issues_devroom">FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom</a>.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:35)</h4> <p>Bradley and Karen introduce Michael's talk.</p> <h4>Segment 1 (01:56)</h4> <p>Michael's <a href="/cast-media/FaiF_0x26_Meeks-On-Copyright-Assignment_slides.pdf">slides are available from faif.us</a> and <a href="http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-02-04.html">from his blog post on the talk</a>.</p> <h4>Segment 2 (26:47)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/">GNU Mediagoblin</a> as an example of a true upstream multi-copyright-holder <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">AGPLv3'd</a> project. (28:10)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that LibreOffice is &ldquo;wealthy&rdquo; as well by Michael Meeks standards, given their <a href="http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/02/16/libreoffice-community-starts-50000-euro-challenge-for-setting-up-its-foundation/">successful fundraisers</a>. (29:38)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/08/21/desktop-summit.html">Desktop Summit panel that he and Michael were on and Karen moderated.</a> (34:06)</li> <li><a href="http://live.gnome.org/CopyrightAssignment/Guidelines">Bradley and Michael co-authored (with Vincent Untz) the GNOME Copyright Assignment Guidelines</a>. (35:30)</li> <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/press/2002-03-01-pi-MySQL.html">FSF was previously supportive of MySQL AB back in 2002</a>, but Michael also used to support the Sun JCA. (38:20)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>