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1:00 pm Fri
Sep 5, 2014
Elliot from Creative Commons writes, "Your readers might remember the Public Domain Game Jam from a few months ago -- next Tues, Sep 9 people in San Francisco will be able to play the games from it and discuss them with jam organizer Nicky Case and then Parker Higgins from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will be talking about why the public domain is under attack, and what you can do to defend it."
CC Salon in San Francisco: Public Domain FTW!
(Thanks, Elliot!)
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