| Volker Grassmuck" (by way of Pit Schultz <[email protected]>) on Sat, 8 Apr 2000 03:46:54 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> [rohrpost] Workshop on Cyberlaw, ICANN & Software Patents, 10.4. |
hey, to all nettimers, this can become interesting (or not)! all the buzzwords you always wanted to know more about (or not). and in the middle, the guy who wrote "Code", Mr. Lawrence Lessig from Harvard University talking to german experts. Watch and Join this transatlantic exercise in finding a way out of the entropic tendencies of the e-economy and give software culture a chance. information wants to be communication! (or not). the chat and livestream will be announced on http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig/index.html Monday, 10th of April, 15:00 - 20:00 GMT (this is breakfeast time in new york) /pit ---- Workshop on Cyberlaw, ICANN and Software Patents with Lawrence Lessig, Jeanette Hofmann and Daniel Riek Monday, April 10th 2000, 4 - 9 pm Roter Salon der Volksbuehne, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin -- in English -- sharing of expenses 5 DM ][ The workshop will be streamed live in RealVideo by OVA <http://ova.zkm.de>. There will be a chat allowing questions and statements from the net to be translated into the workshop. The workshop will be documented on the net. The workshop provides an opportunity for the free software and hacking crowd to meet one of the foremost specialists on cyber law and Internet governance, Lawrence Lessig. Additionally to introducing fundamental concepts like regulation through code, the workshop will address two current issues. One is ICANN, the Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers. The elections of the membership at large to its board of directors is currently under preparation and expected in fall. Jeanette Hofmann will give an introduction to this issue. The other is the decision of the European Commission's DG XV expected in June on whether or not to introduce software patenting in Europe. The introduction here will be given by Daniel Riek. The focus of the workshop will be on discussion. I would like to draw your attention to two texts that we were permitted to pre-publish especially for this workshop: Jeanette Hofmann, Und wer regiert das Internet? - Regimewechsel im Cyberspace http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig/JH_ICANN_Telejahrbuch.html Daniel Riek, Softwarepatente gefaehrden Fortschritt durch Wettbewerb http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig/riek_thesen_ws-pat.html Topical texts by Lawrence Lessig can be found on his homepage. LAWRENCE LESSIG http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessig.html Professor at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, specialist in Internet governance and in open law, expert in United States v. Microsoft, currently visiting researcher at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. JEANETTE HOFMANN http://duplox.wz-berlin.de/ Political scientist focussing on Internet Governance in the narrower sense (ICANN as new Internet government) and in a widers sense (technical and political forms of digital ordering of space), working at the Science Center Berlin (WZB). DANIEL RIEK Co-founder and board member of ID-PRO AG, member of the managing board of Linux Verband LIVE. MC: Volker Grassmuck http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck GROUPS mikro http://www.mikro.org Computer Science & Society of Humboldt University http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de Berliner Linux User Group (BeLUG) http://www.belug.org/ CCC Berlin http://www.ccc.de/berlin Individual Network Berlin http://www.in-berlin.de/ SPECIAL THANKS TO Roter Salon http://www.roter-salon.de OVA http://ova.zkm.de and Linux Information Systems AG http://www.linux-ag.com/ MORE INFO AT http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- home http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck/ mikro http://www.mikro.org Wizards of OS http://www.mikro.org/wos =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ---------------------------------------------------------- # rohrpost -- deutschsprachige Mailingliste fuer Medien- und Netzkultur # Info: [email protected]; msg: info rohrpost # kommerzielle Verwertung nur mit Erlaubnis der AutorInnen # Entsubskribieren: [email protected], msg: unsubscribe rohrpost # Kontakt: [email protected] -- http://www.mikro.org/rohrpost # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]