As most of you know, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov has been
charged with a crime under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA) for breaking the encryption on Adobe e-books. As a way of
informing the public on the problems of the DMCA two (overlapping :))
groups, DMCA-Minnesota [1] and the newly formed Students
for Fair Copyright [2] are sponsoring a lecture series called
Reclaiming the Public Domain [1]. The first lecture in that
series is being given by University of Minnesota Law Professor
Dan Burk on Thursday, October 4 at 7 pm Room 124 of Amundson Hall [3]
on the east bank campus of the U. Professor Burk is an expert in
the area of intellectual property and he filed an amicus brief in
the DeCSS/2600 case challenging the constitutionality of the
DMCA. He will be speaking on the anti-circumvention provisions
of the DMCA, and explain why these provisions pose constitutional
problems.
Later lectures in the series scheduled so far are:
* October 17: John Logie of the University of Minnesota's
Department of Rhetoric.
* November 8: Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Internet
Security, author of Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a
Networked World and also Amicus Curiae in Universal et. al.
v. Corley et. al.
Anyway, the scheduling works out OK with respect to the beer
meeting, since you can have a few at Stub and Herbs at 6 and then
walk over to the lecture at 7 ;).
1. http://www.underwhelm.org/
2. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairCopyright
3. http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/AmundH/index.html
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