A series of three forums connected by an overall theme of "Freedom with Responsibility" will be launched tonight, April 7, with a talk by Ken Paulson, editor of USA Today, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room. Paulson will discuss free speech in the media.
Next Thursday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m., representatives of the music and video industries, who want to protect their intellectual property from illegal copying and distribution, and advocates of an open, flexible Internet will debate in a session titled "The Download Debate Strikes Back" in Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall. The forum is co-sponsored by the Student Assembly, the Office of the Dean of Students and the University Computer Policy and Law Program.
Participants will include Fritz Attaway, executive vice president and general counsel, Motion Picture Association of America; Alec French, senior counsel for government relations, NBC/Universal; Avery Kotler, senior director for business and legal affairs, Napster; Cary Sherman, president, Recording Industry Association of America; Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of communications, New York University; and Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
A third forum on "Academic Integrity" is planned for the future.
The series of three forums is designed to "inform the electorate," according to Kent Hubbell, dean of students. "Many of our students are creative people who someday may produce intellectual property of their own that they will want to protect," Hubbell said. "They should understand the legal need to protect intellectual property and the underlying concepts."
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