Stanford Center for Internet and Society

The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society is pleased to present a screening of scenes from "Counting on Democracy," a new documentary by Stanford Law graduate Faye Anderson on the 2000 Presidential Election voting debacle, followed by a panel discussion featuring the filmaker, e-voting critics, and members of the OPG v. Diebold legal team, which will have argued that case in Federal court the prevous day.

February 10, 2003
5:45- 7:00 PM
Room 290
Stanford Law School
DirectionsAbout the Speakers

Faye M. Anderson is a New York-based writer, independent producer and public policy consultant. She is the writer and producer of "Counting on Democracy," an examination of the 2000 Florida election debacle that aired on PBS stations nationwide. She is writing a book on the perils of electronic voting machines.

You've heard of weblogs, you've read about them, and you've probably even seen a few. But just how does one 'blog'? Are there rules of etiquette? What's the technology behind the blog, and what new technology is being developed for blogging? How is the format being used to communicate in new ways? Come get the answers from Dave Winer, publisher of the longest currently running weblog on the internet!

Monday November 24, 2003
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Room 80 (Moot Courtroom)
Free and Open to all!
Lunch ServedDave Winer, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, is the publisher of the Scripting News (www.scripting.com), the longest currently running weblog on the internet.

(Research on Innovation and Visiting Scholar, MIT Sloan)

Monday, November 10, 2003
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Room 80 (Moot Courtroom)
Free and Open to all!
Lunch Served

Legal changes have allowed software to be patented and there are now over 100,000 U.S. software patents in force. Bessen takes a non-technical look at how firms have used these patents, based on a comprehensive empirical analysis. Large manufacturing firms have acquired most of these patents, building strategic patent portfolios. At the same time, these firms have reduced their R&D investment relative to sales. This evidence appears contrary to the theory used to support software patents and other recent changes in patenting standards.

Monday November 3, 2003
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Room 80 (Moot Courtroom)
Free and Open to all!
Lunch Served

Dr. Cooper will discuss, within the framework of First Amendment jurisprudence and rigorous economic analysis, the continuing need for structural limits on media ownership to promote democratic discourse. The key topics will be:

* Economic forces in mass media markets;
* Increasing commercialism, concentration, consolidation and conglomeration;
* The Internet’s effect on the alteration of sources of news and information;
* The relationship between relaxation of media ownership limits and loss of diversity.

Monday October 27, 2003
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Room 80 (Moot Courtroom)
Free and Open to all!
Lunch Served

David Sobel, general counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, will discuss the organization's use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to compel the disclosure of government documents on privacy policy, including electronic surveillance and encryption controls. His recent cases seek the release of information concerning the USA PATRIOT Act, the Total Information Awareness program and the privacy impact of aviation security measures and other homeland security initiatives.

Monday October 13, 2003
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Room 80 (Moot Courtroom)
Free and Open to all!
Lunch Served

Read their paper in MSWord format or in text format (without the tables).
About the Speakers:

James Fishkin has just come to Stanford as the Janet M. Peck Professor of International Communication and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) as well as Director of Stanford's new Center for Deliberative Democracy. He is the author of Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform (Yale Press 1991), The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (Yale Press 1995) and co-author with Bruce Ackerman of Deliberation Day (Yale Press 2004). He invented Deliberative Polling and has employed it in more than 20 projects, some national and some local in various countries around the world.

Monday September 22, 2003
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Room 80 (Moot Courtroom)
Free and Open to all!
Lunch Served

On the heels of filing its response brief before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week, join Matthew Neco, general counsel for StreamCast Networks, Inc., the producer and distributor of the controversial Morpheus file sharing software program for a discussion on:

• The Dynamic Tension between Copyright and Technological Innovation
• Privacy Rights
• Discovery of Purported Infringers
• Solutions: who should decide – the Judiciary or the Legislature

Thursday, May 1, 2003
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Room 80 (Moot Courtroom)
Free and Open to all!
Lunch Served
About the Speaker

David Drummond became Google's vice president, Strategy and Business Development in 2002. In this role, Drummond works with the management team to evaluate and drive new strategic business opportunities, including strategic alliances and mergers and acquisitions. He also serves as Google' s general counsel.

Drummond was first introduced to Google in 1998 as a partner in the corporate transactions group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, one of the nation's leading law firms representing technology businesses. Drummond served as Google's first outside counsel, and worked with Larry Page and Sergey Brin to incorporate the company and secure its initial rounds of financing. During his tenure at Wilson, Sonsini, he worked with a wide variety of technology companies, advising them on all aspects of their business and financial activities and helping them manage complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings.

Monday April 28, 2003
1:00-2:00 PM
Room 290
Stanford Law School
Open to All!
Background:

September 16, 2002
Imagine a law that had two parts—a labeling part and a bounty part. Part A says that any unsolicited commercial e-mail must include in its subject line the tag [ADV:]. Part B says that the first person to track down a spammer violating the labeling requirement will, upon providing proof to the Federal Trade Commission, be entitled to $10,000 to be paid by the spammer.”
–Larry Lessig CIO Insight Magazine

January 1, 2003
Here goes: So (a) if a law like the one I propose is passed on a national level, and (b) it does not substantially reduce the level of spam, then (c) I will resign my job. I get to decide whether (a) is true; Declan can decide whether (b) is true. If (a) and (b) are both true, then I’ll do (c) at the end of the following academic year

Rick Alber practiced law briefly in San Francisco before embarking on a Silicon Valley tech career. He will recount how he applied his business and law school training and legal knowledge in several software startup organizations, including Ansa, Borland and Slate. Rick will also discuss issues he believes will become important in the near future and describe some of the opportunities he sees for young attorneys, MBAs, and entrepreneurs interested in the tech world. Tuesday, April 22, 2003
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Room 80 (Moot Courtroom)
Stanford Law School
Reception to Follow
Open to all!

About the Speaker: