[IP] Benkler and Lessig in DC
Begin forwarded message:
From: Carl Malamud <carl@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 18, 2006 5:30:32 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Benkler and Lessig in DC
Hi Dave -
For any DC IPers if you wish ...
We've got two very distinguished speakers coming to the center to give
lectures. Before opening up the event to general registration, I wanted
to make sure our friends knew about this ... feel free to forward and
hope to see you there.
Regards,
Carl
The Center for American Progress Presents:
Two Notable Lectures on Public Policy and the Internet
Contrary to urban myth, the Internet was not built by the U.S.
Government. Nor was it built by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, or Cisco. The
net was built by thousands of engineers from all over the world who
cooperated across organizational, idealogical, and national boundaries.
Some were freelance consultants, some worked with the blessing of their
employers, others simple did it and let their boss know later.
The fact that thousands of people would together work to build
internetworks, create open source software, or cooperate to create
Wikis, the web, or the other facets of our modern Internet is a new
economic phenomenan.
The Center for American Progress is pleased to present lectures by two
of the most prominent scholars of the Internet. They will discuss how
the Internet changes everything with particular reference to the
challenges the net poses to policy makers in Washington, D.C.
Professor Yochai Benkler, Yale University will present:
The Wealth of Networks: How US Internet policies are
undermining both freedom and growth.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Program: 9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M.
Breakfast will be served at 8:30 A.M.
Admission is free.
To RSVP for the Professor Yochia Benkler Lecture, please
visit: http://www.americanprogress.org/rsvpbenkler
Professor Lawrence Lessig, Standford University will present:
The Withering of the Net: How DC pathologies are
undermining the growth and wealth of the Net.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Program: 1:30 P.M. to 2:30 P.M.
Refreshments will be served at 1:00 P.M.
Admission is free.
To RSVP for the Professor Lawrence Lessig Lecture, please
visit: http://www.americanprogress.org/rsvplessig
For more information, please call: (202) 741-6246
Center for American Progress
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Washington, DC 20005
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Nearest Metro: Blue/Orange Line to McPherson Square or Red Line to Metro
Center
Participants:
Professor Yochai Benkler (http://www.benkler.org/) drew wide attention
in 2002 with his seminal law review article "Coase's Penguin, or Linux
and the Nature of the Firm," the first scholarly piece to convincingly
explain how the open source phenomenan fits into economic and legal
theory. With the publication this year of Wealth of Networks, Benkler
provides radical insights into our legal system, our economy, and the
possibilities before us if we rise to the challenge.
Professor Lawrence Lessig (http://www.lessig.org/) is the author of
three of the most important books in the field, including Code and
Other Laws of Cyberspace, The Future of Ideas, and Free Culture. A
practioner as well as a scholar, Lessig chairs the Creative Commons
project, argued the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft before the
Supreme Court, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50
Visionaries for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could
stifle innovation and discourse online."
Carl Malamud is a Senior Fellow and Chief Technology Officer at the
Center for American Progress. Malamud is the author of 8 books and was
the founder of the Internet Multicasting Service, a nonprofit service
known for starting the first radio station on the Internet and putting
the SEC EDGAR and US Patent databases on-line. He has been a visiting
professor at the MIT Media Lab and at Keio University, was the founding
chairman of the Internet Systems Consortium, and is currently Chair of
the Jabber Software Foundation.
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