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Episode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful

30 August 2011

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Summary

Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed under CC-By-SA-3.0 USA. This will be the new license of the show for this and future episodes. This show was released on Tuesday 30 August 2011; its running time is 01:03:49.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:34)

●This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. (03:13)

Segment 1 (03:34)

●Richard Fontana has made his slides from his talk available on his website. ●Bradley live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON. ●Richard Fontana references Michael Meeks' essay, Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment (29:55)

Segment 2 (45:17)

●Bradley and Karen were on a panel discussion on copyright assignment at Desktop Summit. (45:33) ●Bradley mentioned that Mark Shuttleworth's obsession with cadence had a similar weird effect on a different debate. (58:30) ●Karen has done some pro bono work for PubPat, and also Question Copyright (01:01:30)

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