Presented at
H2K2 (2002),
July 13, 2002, 11 a.m.
(60 minutes)
Since we last met, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has claimed more victims and been at the forefront of all kinds of legal action. We even had the first instance of a programmer being thrown into prison because of a program he wrote while in his native Russia! Hear the latest on the Dmitry Sklyarov case and others that the DMCA is responsible for as well as what is being done to put an end to it.
Presenters:
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Robin Gross
Robin Gross is an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and specializes in digital music and intellectual property policy. In June 1999, she founded EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFE) that works to protect freedom of expression in digital media. Gross frequently publishes and speaks on intellectual property, digital copyright, and the DVD/DeCSS and MP3 legal wars.
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Eric Grimm
Eric Grimm and his law firm CyberBrief, PLC, specialize in the resolution of technology-related legal disputes. Most recently, he represented 2600 when we were sued by the Ford Motor Company for pointing www.fuckgeneralmotors.com to www.ford.com. And, not surprisingly, he won.
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Mike Godwin
Mike Godwin served as the first Staff Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he informed users of electronic networks about their legal rights and responsibilities, instructed criminal lawyers and law enforcement personnel about computer civil liberties issues, and conducted seminars about civil liberties in electronic communication for a wide range of groups. Currently a senior policy fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, he also remains an "IP Land" columnist for The American Lawyer magazine, and is a contributing editor at Reason.
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