[Fsfe-newsfr-en] FSF France news 05/03/2004

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Hello.

Here are the news from FSF France on 05/03/2004.

News FSF France in text (see attachment for HTML with links) :
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||Strasbourg Consumers And Users Digital Rights Rally on     ||
||Monday                                                     ||
||5 March 2004. Join in the rally to protect consumer rights ||
||to urge the EU Parliament to REJECT the bloated            ||
||Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive or to   ||
||VOTE for the FIPR/Cappato Amendments that protect consumers||
||from over-zealous enforcement of intellectual property     ||
||rights. When: Monday, 8 March 2004, between 16:30 - 18:30  ||
||(4:30 pm - 6:30 pm) as MEPs enter the Parliament Building  ||
||for the evening's debate, on the eve of the final EU       ||
||Plenary vote. Where: Immediately outside the EU Parliament ||
||Building, Strasbourg, France                               ||
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||Updated : "Project Gutenberg Plans To Give Away A          ||
||Quadrillion eBooks By 2015"                                ||
||29 January 2004. UNESCO, in close collaboration with APRIL ||
||and AFUL, is organising a conference with Michael Hart.    ||
||Michael S. Hart, founder of the Project Gutenberg in 1971, ||
||is giving for the first time in France an exceptionnal     ||
||lecture, to present the project and its evolution. He will ||
||present a brief history of Project Gutenberg's efforts to  ||
||bring electronic libraries to the masses via a             ||
||Neo-Industrial Revolution. He will then make predictions   ||
||concerning the next decades, including eBooks, eLibraries, ||
||copyright and automated translation : including million    ||
||eBook libraries one can carry with a laptop, billions of   ||
||Internet users, and the future of copyright and the public ||
||domain.                                                    ||
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Regards,

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Olivier BERGER - Secrétaire de l'association APRIL 
APRIL (http://www.april.org) - Vive python (http://www.python.org)
Pétition contre les brevets logiciels : http://petition.eurolinux.org

FSF France News

Strasbourg Consumers And Users Digital Rights Rally on Monday
5 March 2004. Join in the rally to protect consumer rights to urge the EU Parliament to REJECT the bloated Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive or to VOTE for the FIPR/Cappato Amendments that protect consumers from over-zealous enforcement of intellectual property rights. When: Monday, 8 March 2004, between 16:30 - 18:30 (4:30 pm - 6:30 pm) as MEPs enter the Parliament Building for the evening's debate, on the eve of the final EU Plenary vote. Where: Immediately outside the EU Parliament Building, Strasbourg, France

Updated : "Project Gutenberg Plans To Give Away A Quadrillion eBooks By 2015"
29 January 2004. UNESCO, in close collaboration with APRIL and AFUL, is organising a conference with Michael Hart. Michael S. Hart, founder of the Project Gutenberg in 1971, is giving for the first time in France an exceptionnal lecture, to present the project and its evolution. He will present a brief history of Project Gutenberg's efforts to bring electronic libraries to the masses via a Neo-Industrial Revolution. He will then make predictions concerning the next decades, including eBooks, eLibraries, copyright and automated translation : including million eBook libraries one can carry with a laptop, billions of Internet users, and the future of copyright and the public domain.