Intellectual Property Law

I'll be attending the Society of Computer & Law's Annual Lecture this evening. Here's some blurb about the event and contact details if you are interested in seeing if there's any last-minute tickets available:

"Technology policy has never been more critical. Privacy, security and the appropriate balance for copyright are now central policy making challenges, if the economic and social potential of the Internet is to be realized. In this lecture, Professor Lessig will build upon the work of Oxford Professor Jonathan Zittrain to identify a critical dynamic in policy making affecting the Internet, and how technologists have become central to that dynamic. The threats to privacy, security, and the proper protection for copyright are not technical, but political. The remedies to those threats will not just be political, but in an important sense, also technological. Professor Lessig will describe this dynamic, and describe the emerging movement in the United States to address it.

SCL confidently expects that there will be a considerable call for tickets from members and  non-members alike and therefore you are advised to apply for your tickets as soon as possible either online or by emailing caroline.gould@scl.org"

Lawrence Lessig is an influential US lawyer and writer, who many IP/IT lawyers will know through his writings about "free culture" - the free software and online collaborative movement. He's now changed his focus to political corruption, as evidenced by the Change Congress movement that he co-founded with Joe Trippi. If you're attending the Lecture, I look forward to meeting you.

If you can't attend, you can still find out what Lessig is on about. If I'm right, Lessig will be giving what he describes as his "Change Congress" speech. With him being firmly embedded in "free culture", you won't be surprised to learn that there are a number of versions of the speech online. You also won't be too shocked to know Lessig is publicising this content on his Lessig Blog.

Have a good day!