We had the pleasure of bringing Rick Falkvinge [1], founder of Sweden's Pirate Party [2], on a U.S. West Coast tour in late July and early August, to talk about copyright reform and civil liberties. The Pirate Party is a political party based on radical copyright and patent reform, and it's started to have an electoral impact in Sweden (see an early 2008 update [3]).
While he was here, CNET News did an interview with him [4].
Videos of his talks are now available:
Keynote speech [5] at OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (15 minutes), Thursday, 27 July. Note the audience member coming up to the stage right afterwards to press a campaign contribution into Rick's hands!
Stanford University [6] (79 minutes), Tuesday, 31 July (or click here [7] for audio only). This was a particularly good talk, because the audience had excellent questions.
Tech Talk at Google [8] (55 minutes), Tuesday, 31 July. A full presentation of the Pirate Party's platform and strategy
Berkeley CyberSalon [9] (audio only), Sunday, 29 July. A panel discussion entitled "Copyright Reconsidered", with Rick Falkvinge, Anthony Falzone, Mary Hodder, Fred von Lohmann, myself, and Jeff Ubois as moderator.
Links:
[1] http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/view/e_spkr/3593
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party
[3] http://questioncopyright.org/swedish_pirate_party_influence
[4] http://news.com.com/Pro-piracy politician proffers his worldview/2100-1028_3-6201976.html?tag=st.prev
[5] http://blip.tv/file/318885/
[6] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4472314929478865652
[7] http://questioncopyright.org/files/rick-falkvinge-stanford-2007-07-31.mp3
[8] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2541736281918823479
[9] http://www.hillsideclub.org/blog/2007/07/29/copyright-reconsidered/