Karen Sandler will present a talk entitled Free Software on Medical Devices: Unchain My Heart at the Open Source Software Convention 2010 in Portland, OR.

Aaron Williamson will explore the factors limiting the openness of open source phones and offer suggestions for overcoming them in talk at OSCON 2010.

Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler will present a talk entitled Bare Essentials of Legal Issues for Developers at the Open Source Software Convention 2010 in Portland, OR.

Eben Moglen will deliver the annual lecture of The Scottish Society for Computers and Law (SSCL) in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 30.

Description: Toyota will be remembered as the beginning, though there were earlier signs everyone missed; soon it will be medical devices, non-automotive as well as automotive transport, utility delivery, and even the building components of our dwellings and offices. Software is in everything, and software failure presents problems of vulnerability and liability about to expand by orders of magnitude in complexity and cost. Software unfreedom and misuse aggravates the problems immeasurably for both private market participants and government regulators. Free software is not merely helpful, but an obligatory part of the solution. In this talk, Moglen will discuss what lawyers in the IT sector can expect in the future and explain how the liability nightmare can be avoided.

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• Transcript posted July 20, 2010

Bradley M. Kuhn will deliver a talk entitled Demystifying GPL Enforcement: Using the Law To Uphold Copyleft at FOSCON 2010 at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.

Bradley M. Kuhn will deliver a talk entitled Demystifying GPL Enforcement: Using the Law To Uphold Copyleft at FOSCON 2010 at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.

Bradley M. Kuhn will deliver a talk entitled GPLv3: Better Copyleft for Developers and Users at the SouthEast Linux Fest.

Bradley M. Kuhn will deliver a talk entitled Demystifying GPL Enforcement: Using the Law To Uphold Copyleft at the Open Source and Security Squared Symposium at the The METS Center in Erlanger, Kentucky (near the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport).

Bradley M. Kuhn will host a Short Q&A session on the GPLv3 GCC linking exception on the toolchain track at the 2010 Linux Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, CA, USA at the Hotel Kabuki.

Bradley M. Kuhn will deliver a talk entitled GPLv3: Better Copyleft for Developers and Users at the Fourth Annual Linux Collaboration Summit at the Hotel Kabuki on Thursday 15 April 2010 at 13:00.