Caracas, May 20 AVN .- This Thursday was the First Seminar Movement Venezuela Advances in Technology Transfer, Cultural and Free Knowledge, whose main theme was IP from different perspectives, such as pharmaceuticals, with patents and generic drugs, the technology to free software and free culture with music and "piracy."
The executive director of the Center National Information Technology (CNTI), Carlos Gonzalez, during his speech to advance the creation of legal instruments that support the philosophy of free knowledge, reported a press release.
González stressed the importance of promoting an amendment to the current Copyright Act, "created in 1993, another political moment than ours. Has many difficulties that hinder practice actions to promote the free knowledge, the social appropriation of knowledge and the exercise of sovereignty. "
stressed that the Ministry for Science, Intermediate Technology and Industry working on the creation of two licenses: one for the free software (SL) in Venezuela, adapted to the principles that have the GPL (for its acronym in English General Public License), as well as political, legal, social and economic development.
also executive director of CNTI said work is underway on another, concerning the distribution and use of content tailored to the Creative Commons licenses.
He confirmed that an example of this new philosophy of free knowledge project is the technology partner Canaima GNU / Linux, in which development involving both members of the community of free software like any computer user.
"Likewise is the project Canaima Education, where teachers themselves are the creators of the Venezuelan educational material containing school laptops have been delivered to hundreds of thousands of children," said Gonzalez.
Source:
http://www.avn.info.ve/node/58719 
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