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*Sessions of the European Union Council of MinistersEU Ministers responsible for Telecommunications are due to meet in Brussels on May 2. An Internal Market session is scheduled for May 25, during which Ministers should in principle adopt a common position on the proposal for a Directive harmonising copyright in the information society.*LES 2000 - A World of InnovationThe LES 2000 conference, subtitled "A World of Innovation" will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 21 to 24 May 2000. This is the annual conference of the Licensing Executives Society International (LES). The programme will cover the latest developments in licensing, intellectual property, intellectual property rights, technology transfer and associated areas of international legislation.For further information contact: LES 2000 Conference Secretariat, c/o LGCE, PO Box 83005, NL-1080 Amsterdam; Tel. +31-20-6793218; Fax +31-20-6758236; E-mail: amsterdam2000@benelux.les-europe.org*Profes 2000 or focusing on software improvementProfes 2000, the 2nd international conference on product-focused software process improvement will be held in Oulu, Finland, from 20 to 22 June 2000. The conference will address both the solutions found in practice as well as relevant research results form academia. The purpose of the conference is to bring to light the most recent findings and results in this area and to stimulate discussion between researchers, experienced professionals and technology providers for SPI. It will focus on the following topics:- Software process assessment and improvement;- Software and process modelling;- Software and process measurement;- Empirical software engineering;- Methods and tools;- Organisational learning/experience factory;- Quality of software, e.g. in embedded systems, telecom, Internet applications and in services;- Quality standards;- Industrial experiences and case studies;- Software engineering and best practice;- Technology transfer.There will also be panels and workshops on current research activities and industrial projects.For further information, please visit: http://www.ele.vtt.fi/profes2000, or contact: Mrs Petra Steffens, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany; E-mail: steffens@iese.fhg.de, or: Adriana Bicego, Etnoteam S.p.A. Italy; E-mail: abicego@etnoteam.it*World conference on educational multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunicationsED-MEDIA 2000 is an annual conference on educational multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications, and will take place...