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at Tweakfest 2009 ( http://www.tweakfest.ch/ )

When?

Friday April 24, 2009, 19:00

Where?

Alte Börse in Zurich (Bleicherweg 5), Gallerie http://alteboerse.com/lageplan.15.html

Why, and what's the goal?

The Federal Institute of Intellectual Property ( http://ige.ch/ ) organizes in May a meeting called "Urheberrechtsgespräch" (rough translation: "conversation about copyright matters"). They have invited various interest groups to nominate representatives for this event.

The "Internet-Community" is one of the interest groups that have been invited.

As per the invitation, the associations Digitale Allemend ( http://allmend.ch ) and /ch/open ( http://ch-open.ch ) have designated representatives who shall represent the Internet Community at that event.

In order to achieve an authentic representation of the Internet Community, it is of course important that before the event, there should be a discussion involving as many diverse members of the Internet Community as possible, so that our representatives will be able to represent not only their own perspective, but as far as possible the concerns and interests of the Internet Community as a whole.

For example, the bad habit of DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) with regard of books which are distributed in digital form over the internet (both in the books digitalization project of Google and with Amazon's "Kindle" von Amazon) will certainly be a topic of discussion.

Interested?

Please register for the meeting by email to: siug@siug.ch

If you cannot come to the meeting (yes, this announcement is somewhat on short notice), you are welcome to email suggestions to siug@siug.ch and we'll discuss them at the meeting.

Responsible for the Internet-Community Meeting:

Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG), an Initiative of /ch/open http://siug.ch/

With best regards in the name of SIUG Norbert Bollow