IP: a talk by Ed Felten at Stanford

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>
>Reading Between the Lines: Lessons from the SDMI
>Challenge and itsAftermath
>
>Prof. Edward Felten, Dept of Computer Science
>Princeton University
>
>Date Thursday, May 17
>Time: 2:15 - 4:00
>Location: Math 380-380
>Stanford Univ.
>
>The music industry has proposed a range of "security
>technologies" designed to prevent the unauthorized
>copying of recorded music.  Recently a group of researchers,
>including the speaker Prof. Edward Felten, was forced to
>withdraw from publication a paper analyzing several of these
>technologies, due to threats of litigation by the music industry.
>This talk will discuss what happened:
>   - the status of anti-copying technology,
>   - how the music industry is trying to prevent copying
>   - an overview of the technical analysis
>   - how and why the authors were threatened,
>   - and the effect of the Digital Millennium Copyright
>     Act on computer security researchers.
>
>
>DIRECTIONS:
>You can locate the building by going to
>http://www.stanford.edu/home/map/search_map.html
>and clicking on Bldg 380 Mathematics in the list of
>Academic and Administrative Buildings.  Parking info
>can be found at http://www-facilities.stanford.edu/maps/download/.
>Please allow extra time for parking.



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