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2:50 am Thu
Aug 11, 2011
This week, I gave the keynote address at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Vancouver, BC. The event's organizers were kind enough to record and release my video to their YouTube channel. My talk was about the way that copyright can be made to work for creators in the digital age, and why it's important for everyone that we don't get it wrong.
SIGGRAPH 2011 : Cory Doctorow's Keynote Address
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