From jhuns at vt.edu  Mon Feb 16 13:01:45 2009
From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger)
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:01:45 -0500
Subject: [Cddc] Friday Speaker: Wendy Seltzer on The State of the Copyfight
Message-ID: <FCBF912B-0EB2-41A4-AE47-439B6C40D67B@vt.edu>


Please distribute as appropriate:

Friday, February 20th,  3:00pm Torg 3100

Wendy Seltzer  http://wendy.seltzer.org/shortbio.html

will present:

The State of the Copyfight

If law's titles are to be believed, we're a decade into the "Digital
Millennium."  That's meant 10 years in which weak encryption has barred
the hacking of copyright's "technical protection measures," in which
ISPs have responded to takedown notices claiming copyright infringement,
even where the use of copyrighted material was fair, but also a decade
of remixing and technologically fueled creativity.  We'll examine the
state of the copyfight, through Chilling Effects, RIAA lawsuits, effects
on technical innovation, and prospects for copyright reform and
activism.

Sponsored by:
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture http://www.cddc.vt.edu
and
Learning Technologies  http://www.it.vt.edu/organization/lt.html

All faculty, staff, and students are welcome.

Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
Information Ethics Fellow
Center for Information Policy Research


Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-Jules de Gaultier

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