LinuxSA September 2006 - World's First Open Movie "Elephants Dream"

  Hi all,

  Time for the LinuxSA September Meeting announcement (it's this
  Tuesday)...

  The usual details:

   When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
           Tuesday, 19th September, 2006
   Where:  Senior Secondary Assessment Board
           of South Australia (SSABSA)
           Boardroom (1st floor)
           60 Greenhill Road
           Wayville SA
   Cost:   FREE
   Who:    Anyone and everyone.
           No pre-registration necessary.

  Presentation:

   Lee Salvemini will be giving the presentation.  Lee was one of the
   Lead Artists for the world's first open movie "Elephants Dream", and
   will be talking about the movie and open source.  All his artwork
   was done on a Ubuntu computer with Blender being the main software
   used, as well as Gimp.  The movie was produced on both Linux and Mac
   machines.

   He has been to San Diego to meet and worked with Tom (developer and
   code writer for Blender).  Made the movie in Holland, currently
   doing commercials for Val Morgan and next month is off to Bollywood
   (India) to work on his next project - he is 20, and has had a fairly
   busy life so far :D.

  Pizza:

   After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
   Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).

  For more information:

   Email:        organisers@linuxsa.org.au
   Web Page:     http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
   Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
   IRC:          #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net

tech/LinuxSA | 18 Sep 2006 | #

Weatherall on The TPM (OzDMCA) Exposure Draft

Kim Weatherall has written some initial comments on the TPM for OzFTA.

Summary: Things may not be as rosy as was initially reported elsewhere.

tech/IP | 07 Sep 2006 | #

Draft Copyright Law changes now available

So the big news this week in Intellectual Property Land is that the Australian Government has released their draft Copyright Ammendment Bill for public comment.

If you remember, this bill is to meet Australia's obligations under the AUSFTA. There's been quite a fight going on to ensure that consumers get some rights to fairly use the copyrighted material they purchase.

While some things look good (like linking TPMs to compyright infringment), I'm waiting with baited breath until some others take a closer look. In the mean time, there is some analysis out there which makes good reading.

If you care about this stuff, read up on the issues and make comment now (as per the government's request) before this becomes law - you only have until September 22, 2006. The fight isn't lost yet, so act now.

tech/IP | 06 Sep 2006 | #