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Big Ideas Event: Who Needs Copyright? on 26 February 2008

27 January 2008 – 12:45 pm by The Big Ideas Team

The next Big Ideas event will be on Tuesday 26th February in the upstairs room of the Wheatsheaf pub in Fitzrovia (nearest tube is Tottenham Court Road). Doors open at 7:30 and we’ll kick off at 8.

Hardly a day goes by without copyright hitting the headlines. But what is copyright? Can you own an idea? Do creators have an obligation to share their ideas for the benefit of society? Is copyright ‘theft’ a victimless crime?

Clare Churly, Managing Editor at a publishing house and consumer of copyright materials, introduces the legal and philosophical ideas surrounding copyright and looks at some of the debates that arise from them.

As ever, the event is open to the public and admission is free. There will be a short talk but the main focus of the evening will be free, open-ended discussion accompanied by libations spiritous and fermented.

Big Ideas is a series of events we hold in a pub in central London on the last Tuesday of the month. Anyone is welcome to turn up.

Sessions generally start with a question. Someone who has some relevant expertise gives a very brief, informal talk. After that a discussion develops in a free and unstructured manner. It's not a lecture, and it's not a debate; it's a pub argument, but unlike any you've had before.

Our usual venue is upstairs at The Wheatsheaf, just off Oxford Street and 5 minutes' walk from Tottenham Court Road tube station, but check specific event details as we do occasionally do it in other places.

In case you were worried, Big Ideas isn't affiliated with any political, religious or other organisation, and we don't have any particular agenda.

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Big Ideas Event: Who Needs Copyright? on 26 February 2008

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