9/27: RIAA v. The People: Four Years and Counting

Amanda Smith — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:14:48 -0700

Start: Sep 27 2007 - 12:45pm

End: Sep 27 2007 - 2:00pm

Name of Speaker:

Fred von Lohmann

Speaker's Bio:

Fred von Lohmann (SLS '96) is Senior Intellectual Property Attorney for EFF. Before coming to EFF, he was a research fellow with the UC Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and an associate with the San Francisco law firm of Morrison & Foerster.

Topic Description:

Four years ago, the recording industry inaugurated an unprecedented campaign of lawsuits against individuals who use peer-to-peer (P2P)file sharing networks to share music. Nearly 30,000 lawsuits later, has it worked? If not, what should be done instead? And what have we learned about the mechanics of federal civil litigation against
thousands of unrepresented individuals?

Drawing on a recent EFF report summarizing the first four years of the recording industry litigation effort, Fred will discuss the recording industry's tactics and describe alternatives that may be on the digital music horizon.

Free and Open to the public (no rsvp required).
Lunch will be served.

It’s not the technology, stupid

Balazs Bodo — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:23:56 -0800

I had an AHAAA moment last night reading Martha Woodmansee’s „ The Author, Art, and the Market”. She writes „As my sketch of writers’ struggles suggests, eighteenth-century Germany found itself in a transitional phase between the limited patronage of an aristocratic age and the democratic patronage of the marketplace.

p2p

9/27: RIAA v. The People: Four Years and Counting

It’s not the technology, stupid