Speaker Series 2003-03 Launches!

The Legality of P2P file-sharing technology:
The Morpheus View

with
Matt Neco
Morpheus General Counsel

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
• The RIAA Shamnesty Program

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

About the Speaker

Matthew Neco is General Counsel and Vice President of Business Affairs for the company that develops and distributors the controversial file sharing software program Morpheus. He has been counsel to a vertically integrated multi-faceted media company that owns nightclubs, and he has been in private practice. He has represented both sides of deals and disputes in the entertainment and new media industries, among other things. He is also a professional mediator. Mr. Neco received his JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School (Go Badgers!) and his B.A. from The University at Albany (State University of New York), and prior to that he was a visual arts major at the High School of Music and Art in New York City, where he was born and grew up.
As a result of his deeply held interests in creativity, intellectual property, innovation, the unfettered and marketplace driven exchange and availability of information, and other of our civil rights, as well as his concerns regarding the consolidation of media interests Matt’s responsibilities include advising and counseling on these public policy issues. Matt is involved in P2P United, an association of peer-to-peer software publishers, focusing on providing a balanced point of view to the Congress of the United States, helping artists, writers, creators and rights-holders of works of authorship and inventions get paid; establishing a code of conduct (which includes the condemnation and non-participation in under-age pornography); protecting against threats to both our national security interests and our civil liberties; and the rights of Americans to privacy, debate, the free exchange of ideas without criminalizing the act of sharing.

More at: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/archives/matt_neco.shtml

Coming soon:

Professors James Fishkin and Shanto Iyengar
October 13, 2003
Online Deliberative Democracy-- or How Blogs, P2P, and the Internet will affect the next Presidential Election.

EPIC General CounselDavid Sobel
October 27, 2003
Using the Freedon of Information Act (FOIA) in a Cyberlaw Practice

Mark Cooper
November 3, 2003
CIS Fellow and Consumer Federation of America Reserach Director Mark Cooper discusses his new book on Broadband Policy

Jim Bessen
November 10, 2003
Patents and Innovation