IP: Workshop on the Management of Digital IP

[David Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>          DIMACS  Workshop on the Management of Digital IP
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>            April 17-18, 2000, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA
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>                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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>Critical to the development of e-commerce is the management of digital
>intellectual property (IP).  Technology has challenged the status quo of
>IP management in many ways.  Widespread use of personal computers and
>Internet communication creates vast opportunities for producers, distributors,
>and consumers of digital works of all forms, but it also threatens to render
>copying and modification of these works completely uncontrollable.  DIMACS
>will sponsor a two-day series of technical talks and "position statements"
>on the design, development, and deployment of IP-management technology that
>strikes the right balance between the need to control copying and
>modification
>and the desire to foster innovative uses of digital works that have been
>enabled by computing and communication advances.
>
>Speakers are encouraged to address all technical, legal, and business aspects
>of digital IP management.  Companies offering relevant products and services
>are encouraged to participate and to submit abstracts or papers outlining
>their approach.
>
>Topics appropriate for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
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>    * Intellectual property protection.
>    * Anti piracy techniques.
>    * Legal issues in the protection of digital rights.
>    * New business models for managing digital rights.
>    * Passive content protection, e.g. watermarking, tracing traitors.
>    * Active content protection, e.g. software tamper resistance.
>    * Hardware solutions to content protection.
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>
>WORKSHOP URL:   http://crypto.stanford.edu/DIMACS/
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>
>                        INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
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>Authors are strongly encouraged to send their submission electronically.
>Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter
>and 4 copies of a submission (double-sided copies preferred) to the
>postal address below. Submissions must be received on or before
>January 17, 2000 (or postmarked by January 5, 2000, and sent via airmail
>or courier). The cover letter should contain the submission's title and
>the names and affiliations of the authors and should identify the contact
>author including e-mail and postal addresses.
>
>Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract or a full-length
>paper or position statement.
>
>(1) Abstract submissions should contain a title, list of authors, and
>    an abstract describing the proposed talk.  The abstract should
>    indicate whether the authors intend to submit a full-length paper
>    in case the abstract is accepted.
>
>(2) Full-length submissions should begin with a title, list of authors, and
>    a short abstract.  The introduction should summarize the
>    contributions of the work at a level appropriate for a
>    non-specialist reader. The submission should be at most 12 pages
>    excluding the bibliography and clearly marked appendices,
>    using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. The organizers do
>    not guarantee that they will read appendices; so submissions should be
>    intelligible without them.
>
>Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by
>February 14, 2000.
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>                          CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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>We will decide whether to publish a proceedings for the workshop based on
>the number of full-length submissions.  If the number and quality of
>full-length submissions are sufficient, proceedings will be published
>by the American Mathematical Society as a volume in the DIMACS series.
>
>CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
>(1) Paul Kocher, Cryptography Research.
>(2) Stuart Haber, InterTrust.
>(3) Narayanan Shivakumar, Univ. Washington
>(4) Jon Callas, Kroll-O'Gara
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>DATES:
>	SUBMISSION: January 17, 2000
>	ACCEPTANCE: February 14, 2000
>	Pre-PROCEEDINGS VERSION: March 24, 2000
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>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
>	Dan Boneh, Stanford University, USA
>	Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs -- Research
>	Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft Research
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>ADDRESS FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
>	dabo@cs.stanford.edu
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>ADDRESS FOR NON-ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
>	Dan Boneh, DIMACS workshop,
>	Gates 475,
>	Stanford, CA, 94304-9045
>	U.S.A
>	Phone: (1) 650-725-3897    Fax:   (1) 650-725-4671
>	E-mail: dabo@cs.stanford.edu
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>STIPENDS: A limited number of stipends are available to those unable
>to obtain funding to attend the workshop.  Students giving talks
>at the workshop are encouraged to apply if such assistance is
>needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to Joan Feigenbaum
>at jf@research.att.com or 973 360-8442.