IP: [CSL Colloq] Implications of DMCA Anti-Circumvention Regulations * 4:15PM, Wed Mar 13, 2002 in Gates B03

[David Farber <dfarber@earthlink.net>]

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Subject: [CSL Colloq] Implications of DMCA Anti-Circumvention Regulations * 4:15PM, Wed Mar 13, 2002 in Gates B03


	Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
	  4:15PM, Wednesday, March 13, 2002
     NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
            http://ee380.stanford.edu

Topic:		Implications of DMCA Anti-Circumvention Regulations
		for Innovation

Speaker:	Pamela Samuelson
		University of California at Berkeley

About the talk:

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it illegal to reverse
engineer most technical measures used by copyright owners to
protect their works and to make or provide technologies designed
to enable such reverse engineering. Congress thought it was
merely protecting copyright industries against "piracy" but the
anti-circumvention rules are so broadly written and have been so
broadly interpreted that they are stifling innovation, research
and other legitimate activities. This talk will consider how and
why these rules might be narrowed to provide a better balance
between protecting the interests of copyright owners and
promoting innovation and other public interests.

About the speaker:

Pamela Samuelson is Chancellor's Professor of Law and Information
Management at the University of California at Berkeley. She has
written and spoken extensively on challenges that information
technologies pose for the law, especially for intellectual
property law. Samuelson is a Director of the Berkeley Center for
Law & Technology, a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, a Fellow of the Association of Computing
Machinery, a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, and a member of the American Law Institute.

Contact information:

Pamela Samuelson
SIMS, 102 South Hall
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720
Vox: (510) 642-6775
Fax: (510) 642-5814
pam@sims.berkeley.edu


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