Richard Stallman was presenting "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks" as a Special Guest at CRI, on Friday November 12th 2010.
The event was organized by Samuel Huron and Antoine Mazières for the new CRI Club Fabelier.

The video of this event will soon be available here.

Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation, one of the earliest activist in the Free Software Movement.

ABSTRACT : "For Copyright vs Community"
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the public--then we must make changes in the other direction.

STALLMAN BIO :
Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.

Links
http://stallman.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman