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Panel 5: THE MECHANICS OF LICENSING II: ELECTRONIC MONITORING & TECHNICAL SELF-HELP Papers to be Presented:
Commentators: Kaye Caldwell, Silicon Valley Software Industry Coalition PRESENTER BIOS Julie E. Cohen Julie E. Cohen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She teaches and writes about intellectual property law, with particular focus on computer software and digital works and on the intersection of copyright, privacy, and the first amendment in cyberspace. She is a member of the Panel of Academic Advisors to the American Committee for Interoperable Systems and a member of the Committee of Concerned Intellectual Property Educators, a member organization of the Digital Future Coalition. Prof. Cohen previously practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation. She received her A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She is a former judicial clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Mann graduated from the University of Texas School of Law and then clerked for Joseph T. Sneed on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. on the United States Supreme Court. After time practicing commercial real-estate law, he served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States. Now an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, he teaches real-estate transactions, commercial transactions, and intellectual property. His research has focused on the dynamics of secured lending and payment systems. Representative publications include Explaining the Pattern of Secured Credit, 111 Harv. L. Rev. 625 (1997); Searching for Negotiability in Payment and Credit Systems, 44 UCLA L. Rev. 951 (1997); The Role of Secured Credit in Small-Business Lending, 86 Geo. L.J. 1 (1997); and Strategy and Force in the Liquidation of Secured Debt, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 159 (1997). COMMENTATOR BIOS Kaye Caldwell Kaye Caldwell is the Policy Director of CommerceNet, a consortium of companies promoting the growth of electronic commerce, as well as the President of the Silicon Valley Software Industry Coalition. Ms. Caldwell is also president of the Software Forum, an organization of approximately 1000 small software developers. Ms. Caldwell has participated extensively in the Article 2B drafting committee meetings.James R. Davis is a member of Research Staff II at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Mr. Davis specializes in the design of digital libraries, including the ongoing development of NCSTRL, a distributed digital library for computer science technical reports now in use at over forty universities. He is a member of Internet Engineering Task Force working group designing the WebDAV extensions to HTTP and in particular the DASL search protocol for WebDAV. He has won several awards from Xerox for excellence in research and has taught a graduate seminar, Topics in Information Capture and Access at Cornell University. Before coming to Xerox PARC, Mr. Davis was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the MIT Media Lab where he helped design and implement a real time music system and a system for tracking researchers inside buildings using active badges. He has also worked at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories and Thinking Machines Corporation, where he designed Direction Assistance, an interactive program that gives driving directions over the phone. The program is on permanent display at the Computer Museum in Boston, and has toured the United States as part of the Boston Science Museum's exhibit "The Age of Intelligent Machines." Mr. Davis has served on National Academy of Science study team on A National Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education, organized a National Science Foundation Workshop on Terms and Conditions for Digital Objects and has been invited to be a member of the program committee for ACM Digital Library Conference. He is also a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computational Linguistics. Mr. Davis received his B.S. in Architecture and Design from MIT and his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, designing his own course of study to include computer science, graphics, artificial intelligence, and architecture. David D. Friedman David D. Friedman is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University, where he teaches Economic Analysis of Law and a seminar on Computers, Crimes, and Privacy. Previous to joining the faculty at Santa Clara, Professor Friedman's teaching appointments have included the University of Chicago Law School, Cornell Law School, the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, the UCLA Department of Economics and the University of Pennsylvania School of Public and Urban Policy. He has also been a John M. Olin Faculty Fellow and an Olin Scholar. Professor Friedman has published extensively on the intersection of economic theory and legal practice, including his latest book called "Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life", published by Harper-Collins. Professor Friedman received his B.A. in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago. A. Michael Froomkin A. Michael Froomkin is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida. Recent publications relevant to electronic commerce include
Prof. Froomkin is the Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Law and Computers. He is a Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and a Fellow of the Cyberspace Law Institute. He is also on the Advisory Boards of BNA Electronic Information Policy & Law Report, the Cyberlaw Abstracts of the Legal Scholarship Network, Privacy Exchange, and the Journal of Online Law. He is on the Editorial Board of Information, Communication & Society and Lex Electronica (Cybernews), and a Consultant Editor of Amicus Curia, the journal of Institute of Advanced Studies (London, England). He is married and has two children. Before entering teaching, Prof. Froomkin practiced international arbitration law in the London office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, and Chief Judge John F. Grady of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Prof. Froomkin received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of both the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law. He has an M.Phil in History of International Relations from Cambridge University in England, which he obtained while on a Mellon Fellowship. His B.A. from Yale was in Economics and History, summa cum laude, phi beta kappa with Distinction in History. Hal R. Varian Hal R. Varian is the Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a Professor in the Haas School of Business, a Professor in the Department of Economics, and holds the Class of 1944 Professorship. He has taught at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other universities around the world. Professor Varian is fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review and is currently on the editorial boards of several journals. Professor Varian has published numerous papers in economic theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics and information economics. He is the author of two major economics textbooks which have been translated into nine languages. His recent work has been concerned with the economics of information technology and the information economy. He received his S.B. degree from MIT in 1969 and his MA in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley in 1973. |