[Seth-Trips] BayFF, Berkeley, February 12 ([bayff-admin@eff.org: February BayFF: "Will Free Expression Survive the Digital Media Revolution?"])

[Seth David Schoen]

I know a lot of you are getting sick of hearing about the DMCA and
SSSCA, but they mysteriously fail to go away even when people get
bored of them.

This meeting involves every single EFF attorney.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:31:45 -0800
To: katina at eff.org
Subject: February BayFF: "Will Free Expression Survive the Digital Media Revolution?"
From: bayff-admin at eff.org


?Will Free Expression Survive the Digital Media Revolution?"

Join EFF Staff Attorneys in an Interactive Discussion at our BayFF on 
February 12th

WHO:

 Cindy Cohn - EFF Legal Director
 Lee Tien - EFF Sr. Staff Attorney
 Fred von Lohmann - EFF Sr. IP Attorney
 Robin Gross - EFF Staff Attorney for Intellectual Property/CAF? Director
 Moderated by Shari Steele - EFF Executive Director

Sponsored by The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Berkeley Center for 
Law and Technology

WHAT:
?Will Free Expression Survive the Digital Media Revolution??

 Movies. Music. Books. You buy it; you own it. That?s how it used to be. 
Now the DMCA
and expanded copyright laws are helping Hollywood change all that. Come and 
hear the EFF
attorneys talk about the state of the battlegrounds that affect your rights.

EFF attorneys will tackle thorny issues during this interactive discussion, 
such as the impact on
science and research from the DMCA?s broad ban on technical information, 
its effect on encryption
and computer security, Constitutional challenges in court and possible 
legislative actions,
international concerns, and the role of fair use in the digital age.

WHEN: February 12th, 2002
           7:00 - 9:30 p.m

WHERE:

Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
University of California
School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Goldburg Room, Second Floor
Berkeley, California 94720-7200
Tel: (510) 642-8073

For directions, see:
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/events/bayff.html

For more information, or to RSVP, contact Katina: (415) 436 - 9333 x101,
katina at eff.org

This event is free and open to the general public. Food and beverages will 
be served.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties 
organization working to
protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively 
encourages and challenges
industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and openness 
in the information
society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the 
most linked-to
Web sites in the world:
http://www.eff.org/

The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology was founded in 1995 to foster 
beneficial and ethical
advancement of technology by promoting the understanding and guiding the 
development of
intellectual property and related fields of law and policy. Housed in Boalt 
Hall, the Center serves
as a resource for academia, the judiciary, law students, practitioners, 
policy makers and others
with an interest in the intersection between technological development and 
the public interest.





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