Events

Visit the EFF booth at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Booth number to be announced.

http://www.macworldexpo.com/

After a day at Macworld, join EFF in celebrating our 17th year of defending digital rights! Since 1990, EFF has been there fighting for freedom and civil liberties.

The birthday bash will be on January 15, 7-11 PM, at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Headliners Adrian & the Mysterious D (A+D), the DJ duo that founded the seminal mashup party "Bootie," will be dropping a shameless, genre-smashing blend of tracks, backed up by DJ sets from Bay Area copyfighters Ripley, Kid Kameleon and EFF's own J Tones and Qubitsu.

The EFF party will also feature an exclusive chocolate sampling with TCHO, "a new chocolate company for a new generation of chocolate enthusiasts." Founded by Wired co-founder Louis Rossetto and legendary chocolatier Timothy Childs, himself a former technologist, TCHO will be bringing a "beta release" of its best dark chocolate to the party table. Attendees are invited to vote for their favorite TCHO beta chocolate flavors at the party -- feedback that will help define TCHO's next steps as they gear up for a national release.

We'll be asking for a $20 donation at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds, but all proceeds will go toward our work defending your digital freedom.

Visit the EFF booth at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Booth number to be announced.

http://www.macworldexpo.com/

Visit the EFF booth at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Booth number to be announced.

http://www.macworldexpo.com/

Visit the EFF booth at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Booth number to be announced.

http://www.macworldexpo.com/

Technology in Wartime Conference at Stanford

WHERE: Stanford Law School
WHEN: January 26, 2008, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
COST: $50-$100 sliding scale donation to CPSR/$20 for student
ONLINE: www.technologyinwartime.org

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) announces its annual conference, at Stanford University, on the topic “Technology in Wartime.” This one-day conference will be held January 26, 2008, and feature a diverse array of speakers from computer scientists, policy makers, and military professionals, to human rights workers, civil liberties legal activists, and academics. The goal of this non-partisan conference will be to consider the ethical implications of wartime technologies and how these technologies are likely to affect civilization in years to come. Ultimately we want to engage a pressing question of our time: What should socially-responsible computer professionals do in a time of high tech warfare?

Speakers will include Bruce Schneier (Counterpane Security), Barbara Simons (ACM), Herb Lin (National Academies of Science), Cindy Cohn (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Patrick Ball (Benetech), Terry Winograd (Stanford University), Neil Rowe (Naval Defense Academy), Nick Mathewson (the Tor project), Ronald Arkin (Georgia Tech's Mobile Robots Lab) and Noah Shachtman (Wired magazine's war correspondent). The proceedings will be broadcast live on the Web, and the presentations collected in book form online, released under an open license, and made available to the public and policy makers looking for expert opinions on wartime technology issues during the election year.

For a complete list of speakers and a schedule, visit www.technologyinwartime.org.

Registration is open. You can register at www.technologyinwartime.org.

ABOUT CPSR: Since incorporating in 1983, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility has been at the forefront of discussions about the ethical uses of computer technology. CPSR educates policymakers and the public on a wide range of issues, and has incubated numerous projects such as Privaterra, the Public Sphere Project, EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center), the 21st Century Project, the Civil Society Project, and the CFP (Computers, Freedom & Privacy) Conference. Originally founded by U.S. computer scientists, CPSR now has members in 26 countries on six continents.

http://www.netneutrality2008.org/About.html

Panel 3: DIY Media: The Intellectual Property Dilemma

Moderator: Jennifer Urban
Panelists: Yochai Benkler, Lawrence Lessig, Fred von Lohmann

New technologies and Internet distribution are allowing society to experience an explosion of creative works made by ordinary people, youth, and social groups traditionally excluded from the mainstream art and media world. The creative cultural production is astounding. Yet, at times, it exists uncomfortably, or clashes outright, with intellectual property laws that are complex, arcane and geared toward traditional media players and predigital media. Are the legal risks of DIY media--copyright infringement from remix and appropriation, aggressive licensing demands by rightsholders, and the like--silencing vibrant voices? On the other side, can intellectual property, always intended as an incentive for production, work for DIY artists? These issues and others will be discussed by a panel of the world's most thoughtful and prescient IP experts: Professor Yochai Benkler of Harvard Law School; Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons; and Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Jennifer Urban of the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic will moderate.

"24/7: A DIY Video Summit"
http://www.video24-7.org/
February 8-10, 2008
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
School of Cinematic Arts

Registration:
http://diy.video24-7.org/2008/01/23/registration-is-nearly-full/

Computer Games, Law, Regulation and Policy Symposium
February 14-15, 2008
QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia

http://www.cci.edu.au/programs/gamesandlaw

Thursday, February 14, 2008
9:00am - 10:00am Opening Plenary, Fred von Lohmann
"Machinima: Copyright and Contract in a New Medium"