(This Techno-Activism Third Monday will, confusingly, be on TUESDAY 21ST this month. Don't forget to update your calendar! And feel free to forward this on to anyone you think may be interested.) Join Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda in a discussion about the EU Copyright Evaluation Report, and the prospects for better global copyright in the 21st Century. The European Union has begun the process of evaluating its current copyright law with a view to updating it. As part of that process, Julia Reda, the Pirate Party member of the European Parliament, prepared an extensive report recommending a number of reforms, including liberal licensing of government works, measures to safeguard the public domain, a harmonisation of copyright term length across the EU, explicit allowances for linking, parody, quotation and data-mining, and limits to legal restrictions on bypassing DRM. This month the Parliament voted to accept the report, with some amendments. Julia Reda will be at this month's San Francisco TA3M to talk about her work as the report's author, and next steps in reforming copyright in Europe, the United States, and the world. Date: Tuesday, July 21st Time: 6:00pm Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco More info: https://juliareda.eu/ https://juliareda.eu/copyright-evaluation-report/ http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/07/09/eu-parliament-adopts-reda-report-on-copy… === What is this again? Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup to connect activists and technologists who are interested in the challenges of surveillance and censorship, and anyone interested in free and open technology. TA3M happens all over the world, from Amsterdam to Tokyo. You can find out your local meetup here: https://wiki.openitp.org/events%3Atechno-activism_3rd_mondays Want to receive these TA3M-SF updates regularly? Join our mailing list at: https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/ta3m-sf