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/ 
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