Events
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03 / 10
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Start: 03/10/2009 - 00:00
End: 03/11/2009 - 23:59
Stop by our ETech booth and say hi! New location: The conference itself is the 9th through 12th but exhibit hours are: Tuesday March 10 Exhibit Hall reception Wednesday March 11 | ||
03 / 11
End: 23:59
Start: 03/10/2009 - 00:00
End: 03/11/2009 - 23:59
Stop by our ETech booth and say hi! New location: The conference itself is the 9th through 12th but exhibit hours are: Tuesday March 10 Exhibit Hall reception Wednesday March 11 Start: 12:00
End: 13:15
Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry will be speaking with the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association about "Copyright, Trademarks and Fair Use." Wednesday, March 11, 2009. 12 noon - 1:15 pm (Lunch will be served) DLA Piper LLP (US) $15 - members/students For complete details visit the SF IP LA event page. | ||
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03 / 13
Start: 00:30
End: 20:00
EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn will be speaking at The Law of the Commons, organized by the Seattle Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and taking place at the Seattle University School of Law. Friday, March 13, 2009 Cindy will be speaking 5:15 p.m. - 6 p.m. — "21st Century Civil Rights: the Digital Commons". For complete details please visit Seattle University's event page. | ||
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03 / 16
Start: 16:00
End: 17:25
Senior Counsel David Sobel will be at the Second Annual Freedom of Information Day Celebration in Washington, D.C. David is speaking on the panel called "An Early Assessment of the Obama Administration" beginning at 4pm. More information | ||
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03 / 23
Start: 19:30
Join EFF on Monday, March 23rd, for a fundraising event featuring award-winning writer Cory Doctorow. Cory will be reading from his novel, "Little Brother," a story of high-tech teenage rebellion set in the familiar world of San Francisco. As he currently calls the UK home, this is a rare opportunity to to hear Cory read from his work in person. He will be joined by fellow writers Rudy Rucker, Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders reading from their latest works. 7pm on Monday March 23, at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. RSVP to: events@eff.org Admission is $25. No one turned away for lack of funds. Must be 21 or older to attend. Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. Cory is an EFF fellow and the former Director of European Affairs at EFF. He has won the Locusand Sunburst Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest novel, New York Times Bestseller "Little Brother," was published in May 2008, and his latest short story collection is "Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present." Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books. His most recent pair of novels depict a near-future Earth in which every object becomes conscious. The first, Postsingular, appeared from Tor Books in 2007, and the second, Hylozoic, will appear from Tor in June, 2009. See his blog for current information. Annalee Newitz is a journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology, covering such topics as open source software and hacker subcultures. Annalee writes for many periodicals, including Popular Science and Wired, and since 1999 has had a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation. From 2004-2005, Annalee was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She is the editor of io9, a Gawker-owned science fiction blog. Charlie Jane Anders blogs about science fiction at io9.com. She organizes the Writers With Drinks reading series and is starting a weekly podcast called "I Am So Smart." Her writing has appeared most recently in "The McSweeney's Joke Book Of Book Jokes," Mother Jones magazine, and the upcoming "Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2009 Edition." Charlie wrote a novel called "Choir Boy" and co-edited an anthology called "She's Such a Geek." Find her on Twitter as "charliejane." 111 Minna Gallery is accessible via BART. Get off at the Montgomery station and use the exit marked 2nd and Market. Walk south on 2nd Street until you reach 111 Minna Gallery on the right. It's also walking distance from the Caltrain station. | ||
03 / 24
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03 / 25
Start: 09:00
End: 16:30
The Federal Trade Commission and the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law will host a conference on the use of digital rights management technologies, a widespread practice that is expected to become increasingly prevalent in the U.S. marketplace in the coming years. 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. William H. Gates Hall, Room 133 For more information visit the FTC's event page. Start: 12:00
End: 13:00
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl will be participating in "A New Hope? Civil Rights in the Post-Bush Era" at the Golden Gate University School of Law. Golden Gate University School of Law, Room 2201 | ||
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03 / 30
Start: 12:00
End: 13:30
Please join EFF for a special lunchtime panel: Hollywood, Digital Rights Management, and the Future of Digital Video Where: The City Club of San Francisco, When: Monday, March 30, 2009, noon - 1:30pm Panelists: Moderated by: Bill Triplett, former Washington Bureau Chief for Variety Admission is free and lunch will be served. When it comes to digital video, will the future be one of consumer choice and robust innovation, or will it be one where every customer and innovator must ask Hollywood's permission for every new activity? Despite the death of digital rights management (DRM) on digital music, Hollywood remains deeply committed to content restrictions on all future video formats, both online and off-line. For example, Real Networks is being sued for its RealDVD product, which permits DVD owners to make portable copies on their laptops. Hollywood is still pushing Congress to enact a "broadcast flag" to restrict over-the-air digital broadcast programs. And online, authorized services like Neflix On Demand and Amazon Unbox use DRMed streaming technologies -- something that Hollywood would like to see on Flash-based platforms like YouTube. Our guests will be: Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, and was the 2008 Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States. He practices law with the Law Offices of Edwin Marger, and runs a consulting firm, Liberty Strategies, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Barr works tirelessly to help preserve our fundamental right to privacy and our other civil liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Fred von Lohmann is a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property matters. He has been at the forefront in the fight against the "broadcast flag" for digital television and has worked to secure DMCA exemptions for DVD content shackled by content restrictions. Paul Sweeting has covered the home entertainment and technology industries for more than 15 years for such publications as Daily Variety, Billboard, Video Business and Publishers Weekly. His widely read weekly column in Video Business focuses on technology trends, intellectual property issues, Internet and technology policy, and business and financial developments in the home entertainment industries. In 2006 he developed and launched ContentAgenda.com, an online business-to-business news portal and blog site focused on the intersection of entertainment content and digital technology. Michael Page has represented a wide range of clients in cutting edge litigation in all manner of intellectual property disputes, ranging from the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, and the Second and Ninth Circuits, to district courts around the country. Until Hollywood sued them out of business, he represented 321 Studios, makers of the popular "DVD X Copy" software used to make back-up copies of DVDs. Bill Triplett was head of the Washington bureau of the entertainment industry trade paper Variety from 2005 to the end of 2008. Issues, legislation and federal policy regarding piracy, intellectual property rights and digital rights constituted a significant part of the D.C. beat. Directions: | ||
03 / 31
Start: 16:00
End: 17:00
EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn will be giving a lecture titled, "Technology, Society and Public Policy" at Rice University. Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1064 Duncan Hall For complete details please visit Rice University's event page. | ||
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