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5/6-5/7: Legal Frontiers in Digital Media
End: May 7, 2010 12:45pm
For more information and to register please visit: http://mlrc-digitallaw.stanford.edu
A joint conference of:
• Media Law Resource Center
• Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society
• John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford
This intensive two-day event is designed for lawyers and Web publishing professionals responsible for sorting out the emerging legal issues surrounding the distribution of content on digital platforms.
The conference will explore:
• banners, beacons, and behavioral targeting
• legal issues for internet advertising and monetization
• ethical issues in the new world of journalism and content distribution
• government, legislative, and regulatory developments
• evolving fair use policies in a digital age
• emerging issues with user-generated content and online sourcing
. . . with legal experts from entities including . . .
Microsoft • Comcast • Federal Communications Commission • CBS Interactive • Center for Democracy & Technology • Center for Investigative Reporting • John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford • Stanford's Center for Internet & Society • key law firms across the country
Questions? Please e-mail DigitalLaw@medialaw.org.
3/4: Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Symposium on Journalism and Diversity
End: March 4, 2010 5:30pm
News and Inclusion: Journalism and the Politics of Diversity will focus on the role of journalism in multicultural societies. Scholars from Singapore, Finland, Australia, The Netherlands, Canada, England, and the United States, will examine, in the context of journalism, the question posed by political theorist Iris Marion Young: "What are the norms and conditions of democratic communication under circumstances of structural inequality and cultural difference?
The symposium is free and open to the public -- but, due to limited space, registration is required.
For details, and to register: http://comm.stanford.edu/newsandinclusion/
Presented by Stanford University's Department of Communication, John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists, the Office of the President, the School of Humanities and Sciences, and the Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity, and Erasmus University Rotterdam's Department of Media and Communication.
The Privacy/Law Enforcement Legal Whipsaw
Even as the issue of privacy continues to confound much brighter people than me, the related problem of securing the Internet has also been getting a great deal of attention. This is in part due to the widely-reported announcement from Google that its servers and the Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents had been hacked, leading the company to threaten to leave China altogether if its government continues to censor search results.
CIS is hiring Summer Interns!
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is looking for volunteer Summer Interns to work on public interest issues involving technology, privacy and the Internet.
2/25: Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig (featuring Eclectic Method)
End: February 25, 2010 6:00pm
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The Open Video Alliance is teaming up with the Harvard Berkman Center to deliver a global webcast of a talk by Lawrence Lessig. It's happening February 25th from 6:00 to 7:30 EST, live from Cambridge, MA. Along with the Cambridge event, OVA is hosting live webcast screenings around the world with special guests. The event hosted by the Stanford Fair Use Project will feature a live VJ mashup with Eclectic Method.
Lessig will be speaking for 45 minutes, and his lecture will be followed by a 30 minute interactive Q & A. The event will be moderated by Elizabeth Stark of the Open Video Alliance. Submit questions using the hashtag #wireside.
The Talk:
This is a talk about copyright in a digital age, and the role (and importance) of a doctrine like “fair use.” Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video. As a medium, online video will be most powerful when it is fluid, like a conversation. Like the rest of the internet, online video must be designed to encourage creative expression and political participation, not just passive consumption.
The Event:
Following the talk, stick around for a demo/workshop featuring video mashup DJs Eclectic Method. This live audiovisual demonstration is not to be missed.
You can RSVP below.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=293792881168&ref=mf
For more information, or to find out about screening parties in other cities visit:
http://openvideoalliance.org/event/lessig/
The Wireside Chat is made possible with the support of iCommons and the Ford Foundation.
National Robotics Week
I'm very happy to announce National Robotics Week, an effort by leading robotics companies, research universities, museums, and others to raise awareness of U.S. robotics. In this inaugural year, NRW will take place all over the country April 10 through 18, including three great events in the Bay Area.
The website is nationalroboticsweek.org. You can follow NRW on Twitter (#roboweek) and Facebook.
PS: The NRW logo is available under a Creative Commons license.
2/4: Barbara van Schewick - The FCC’s Open Internet Proceeding – Implications for Political Speech
End: February 4, 2010 6:00pm
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Barbara van Schewick's research focuses on the economic, regulatory, and strategic implications of communication networks. In particular, she explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to these changes. This work has made her a leading expert on the issue of network neutrality. Her book "Internet Architecture and Innovation" will be published by MIT Press this spring. Professor van Schewick is the Faculty Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society and an assistant professor of electrical engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford's Department of Electrical Engineering.
Who should decide how users can use the Internet? users or network providers? Should network providers be allowed to block certain applications or content on their networks? Triggered by changes in Internet technology, these questions over network neutrality have moved to the center of the regulatory and legislative debates surrounding the Internet worldwide. They are at the core of the Open Internet Proceeding, launched by the Federal Communications Commission in October 2009 to explore what rules are needed to secure the Internet's openness. The talk will give an overview of the draft rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission and explain how the alternative options under consideration would affect the environment for political speech in the United States.
Presented by the Program on Liberation Technology, pary of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
For further information regarding the series:
http://cddrl.stanford.edu/research/program_on_liberation_technology/
Paper on Information as Intellectual Property Subject Matter
I’ve just posted my paper on information as IP subject matter. The paper addresses some basic questions about the idea of property-like rights in “information” at the abstract level. Beyond theory, the conception of information developed there has various applications to a host of more specific questions of IP law, e.g., copyright policy and judicial interpretation of statutory subject matter provisions. Comments are welcome.
2/2: Jonathan Band - The Path to Settlement in the Google Books Case
End: February 2, 2010 2:00pm
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Jonathan Band graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School. He was a partner at Morrison and Foerster in Washington DC for 13 years before starting his own legislative and appellate advocacy firm.
Please join CIS and SLATA for a discussion of the terms in the amended settlement agreement in the Google Books case. Mr. Band, who has worked on the settlement on behalf of the American Library Association and the Association of Research Libraries, will explore the original agreement's implications for competition, privacy, intellectual freedom, and the rights of authors and publishers, and how the amended agreement differs from the original.
He recently published an article on the settlement process, titled "The Long and Winding Road to the Google Books Settlement," available at http://www.jmripl.com/Publications/Vol9/Issue2/Band.pdf
Lunch will be served.
Name Your Price? Walker Digital places IP portfolio for licensing/purchase.
This morning I received an email from ICAP - Ocean Tomo informing that they are the exclusive broker for about 700 patents in the Walker Digital portfolio. Presumably in the portfolio is the Priceline 'name your price' patent. I wonder if William Shatner, television advertising persona for Priceline and formerly Captain Kirk of Startrek, is going to be doing some 'patent price chopping.'
Spotlight on CIS
Securing Privacy in the Internet Age
Edited by Anupam Chander, Lauren Gelman, and Margaret Jane Radin.
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CIS Fellow Elizabeth Townsend Gard
Non-resident fellow Dr. Elizabeth Townsend-Gard is an Associate Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School. With the help of her students, Elizabeth has developed the "Durationator," an online tool and accompanying study that tracks copyright duration in the U.S. and abroad. A beta version is expected to be released in January 2009. Their progress can be followed on her blog.
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