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Wouter Tebbens and Marco Fioretti of the Free Knowledge Institute will present the Digital DIY project, its current status and some of its preliminary findings, at the Paris Open Source Summit. Exact date and time of the talk(s) will be added to this announcement as soon as possible. For background, you are welcome to read these reports:
An important development (*) that may have serious impacts on many forms of Digital DIY:
[In July 2016] the UK government extended copyright for designs from 25 years to the life of the designer plus 70 years. In practice, this is likely to mean a copyright term of over 100 years for furniture and other designed objects.
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