This sound Great! Can you just show up? >>> crumley at belka.space.umn.edu 10/03/01 12:22PM >>> 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 -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org Cookies are tasty! |Free Dmitry Sklyarov - http://freesklyarov.org/ _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list