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[DMCA-Activists] Stanford CIS event: Cyberlaw in Supreme Court
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Seth Johnson |
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[DMCA-Activists] Stanford CIS event: Cyberlaw in Supreme Court |
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Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:32:46 -0500 |
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Subject: pho: Stanford CIS event: Cyberlaw in Supreme Court
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:28:23 -0500
From: Fred von Lohmann <address@hidden>
To: "'Pho' (E-mail)" <address@hidden>
FYI. I won't be there, but counsel to Grokster, Mike Page, will
be.
> _________________________
>
> Cyberlaw in the Supreme Court
> April 30, 2005
> Stanford Law School
> http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/supreme/
>
> Registration now Open!
>
> On March 29, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in two
> cases that together will greatly determine how government can and will
> regulate the Internet in the future, and the impact that the public
> interest will have on the development of cyberlaw over the next
> decade.
>
> In MGM v. Grokster, the Court will decide whether copyright holders
> can veto consumer electronics and computing innovations that upset the
> content industries' prevailing business models, even where the
> technology's non-infringing uses provide substantial benefits to
> consumers. The question is whether consumer demand for new and better
> products will drive technological development, or copyright owners'
> demand for control will retard it.
>
> In Brand X v. FCC, the Court will decide whether the FCC should retain
> the option to regulate cable modem services to promote open access to
> broadband lines, universal service and network neutrality, as it did
> in the early days of the Internet when most people connected over
> common-carrier telephone lines. The question is whether tomorrow's
> communications services will be defined by citizen choices or by the
> business interests of a handful of cable broadband companies.
>
> At Cyberlaw in the Supreme Court, the Stanford Law School Center for
> Internet and Society will convene a discussion of these cases, their
> broader implications, and what effect the pending Supreme Court
> decisions could have on the public interest. Panels of attorneys
> litigating and arguing these cases, the parties affected by them, the
> policy advocates whose work will begin once the Judges rule, and the
> people thinking about what the legal landscape will look like for the
> next ten years will discuss both cases and the impact the decisions
> will have on the future.
>
> Register at: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/supreme/
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