Events
The 7th Hawaii Conference: Emerging Law & Policy Issues in the Entertainment Industry
February 18-22, 2012
Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa
Honolulu, HI
BCLT continues its collaboration with the Center for Law and Technology at Seoul National University for the 7th Annual Hawaii Conference. This year's event will focus on Emerging Law & Policy Issues in the Entertainment Industry. US Speakers will include Peter Menell, Berkeley Law, BCLT, Sean O'Connor, University of Washington School of Law, Jennifer Urban, Berkeley Law, and Jonathan Stern, Director of Legal Affairs for Red Bull North America, Inc.
Contact Julia Tier at BCLT (jtier@law.berkeley.edu) for more information.
The 5th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: The Large Immortal Machine and the Ticking Time Bomb
March 19, 2012
Bancroft Hotel
Berkeley, CA
Designers of the first electronic telephone switches nicknamed them the "large immortal machines" because switches last decades. The 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) requires that all digital-switched telephone networks be built wiretap enabled; the law took longevity of switches into account by authorizing funding to update switches in place. But by failing to analyze how threat models would change in a highly connected IP-based world, CALEA did not consider the longevity of switches prospectively. As an architected security breach, CALEA compliance is a ticking time bomb. Alleviating this is the subject of this talk.
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Orphan Works and Mass Digitization: Obstacles & Opportunities
April 12-13, 2012
Claremont Resort & Spa
Berkeley, CA
Given the failure of the Google Book settlement and the newly proposed orphan works directive in the EU, the time is ripe for renewed consideration about how best to solve the orphan works problem. Among the kinds of questions that may be addressed in the symposium are: Is legislation necessary to achieve a solution to the orphan works problem, or can fair use achieve some of the goal? Should orphan works legislation be aimed at creating an exception for reuses of orphan works, or should reusers of orphan works only be subject to more limited remedies if a rights holder later shows up? What other solutions should be considered? To what extent is ambiguity about who as between authors and publishers own ebook rights contributing to the orphan work problem? What factors should be considered in determining what constitutes "a diligent search"? Should every potential user of an orphan work have to do such a search, or can users rely on searches conducted by others?
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Innovate / Activate 2.0
April 20-21, 2012Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Intellectual property regimes seek to benefit society through a variety of incentives, from improving access to encouraging innovation to preserving public knowledge. However, evidence has been building to suggest that there are substantial flaws in the design and implementation of various IP regimes, leading to failures in policy and harms to the public. As a result, active communities have formed to address these shortcomings and the important issues they raise, such as the tension between free speech and efforts to expand copyright’s scope and enforcement tools; the importance of fair use and follow-on creativity; the role of alternative licensing systems such as Creative Commons or the GNU Public License; the appropriateness of patent protection for software and business methods; and the conflict between overpatenting of pharmaceuticals and broad access to medicines and diagnostic technologies. But there’s much more that can be done.
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Berkeley Law Privacy Forum: Silicon Valley
April 26, 2012
Four Seasons Silicon Valley
Palo Alto, CA
Join the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology for cutting-edge BCLT scholarship and discussion surrounding real world information privacy law problems. The Keynote Address will be presented by European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinix
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