EFFector Vol. 14, No. 2 Feb. 9, 2001 editor@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424
EFFector Vol. 14, No. 2 Feb. 9, 2001 editor@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424
For more information on EFF activities & alerts: http://www.eff.org
WHO: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lawrence Lessig. Music by
UKUSA
WHAT: "BayFF" centers on Architecture and Innovation on the Web
WHEN: Monday, February 12th, 2000, at 7pm PT
WHERE: Stanford Law School, room 290
Crown Quadrangle
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
(650)725-2565
This event is free and open to the general public. Food and beverages will be served.
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School. He was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 1991 to 1997, he was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1989, and then clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, is published by Basic Books. In 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Lessig will discuss the changing architecture of the Internet and how these changes, both legal and technical, will effect the environment for innovation.
BayFF is first and foremost a real-space event, meant to serve as an
educational forum for the local community, as well as a catalyst for
like-minded activists. Locals, please show your support in person!
BayFF fans and followers that are scattered across the country and around
the world can access this month's BayFF WebCast at:
http://www.eclipsnow.com
February's BayFF will be Webcast by Eclipsnow! which has kindly
donated its services to EFF. Eclipsnow! has been Webcasting corporate
events, public affairs music and entertainment since 1996. It requires
Windows Media Player as far as we know (though RealPlayer 8
might also work.)
For directions to the event, you can use free services like http://www.mapquest.com or http://maps.yahoo.com to generate driving directions or maps. For CalTrain and Muni directions, please call their information lines.
You can subscribe to receive future BayFF annoucements. To subscribe, email majordomo@eff.org and put this in the text (not the subject line): subscribe bayff.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most-linked-to Web sites in the world: http://www.eff.org
Continuing over 10 years of defending civil liberties online, EFF presents a series of regular meetings to address important issues where technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled "BayFF" Bay-area Friends of Freedom), kicked off on July 10, 2000, and will continue on a monthly basis.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation:
http://www.eff.org
Prof. Lawrence Lessig's home page:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessig.html
Katina Bishop
Director of Education & Offline Activism
Electronic Frontier Foundation
+1 415 436 9333 x101
katina@eff.org
Will Doherty - EFF Online Activist
+1 415 436 9333
wild@eff.org
Shari Steele - EFF Executive Director
+1 415 436 9333
ssteele@eff.org
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 8, 2001 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced the hire of Will Doherty as the organization's Online Activist, spearheading online outreach and grassroots organizing on EFF's pioneering work to protect Internet free speech and privacy rights. Doherty will cultivate strategic partnerships and coordinate educational and advocacy campaigns online. In addition, Doherty will develop and coordinate relationships with media covering the Internet policy beat.
"We are so excited to have Will join our team," exclaimed EFF's Executive Director Shari Steele. "Will brings to EFF more than 20 years of experience as an online activist and computing consultant. His work within the online civil liberties community is well known and well-respected. We're all looking forward to working with Will as he communicates our work to the online world."
"As Internet technology has challenged our traditional notions of civil liberties, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has stepped up to protect the rights of all people who use the Internet," said Doherty. "I am proud to join such an important organization."
Doherty also currently serves as Founder and Executive Director of the Online Policy Group, dedicated to "one Internet with equal access for all." Doherty has designed and implemented Internet strategies and websites for many nonprofit community and advocacy organizations.
Prior to founding the Online Policy Group, Doherty served as the Director of Online Community Development at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), where he focused on the online rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. He managed GLAAD's Digital Media Resource Center in San Francisco, cultivating strategic partnerships in Silicon Valley and beyond.
Doherty has been part of the online community for a long time. In the early 1980s, Doherty worked on the ARPANET, precursor of the Internet. Doherty served as the Globalization Operations Manager at Sybase, Inc., and as a Localization Program Manager and a Technical Writer for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Doherty holds an MBA from Golden Gate University and a BS in Computer Science and Writing from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
EFF's long-time online activist & tech Stanton McCandlish remains with the organization, and is now devoted full-time to webmastering. Of Doherty he said, "I can't think of anyone more qualified to be our activist & press manager than Will, and I'm delighted he's on board with us."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most linked-to Web sites in the world: http://www.eff.org
Tawnya Louder-Reynolds
Center for the Public Domain
+1 919 549 8388
tawnya@centerpd.org
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA -- The Center for the Public Domain (formerly Red Hat Center) today announced a series of grants to organizations worldwide that will provide information to raise the public's knowledge of open access and the fair exchange of information from medicine to the Internet to software, as well as study the repercussions of current intellectual property (IP) treaties and legislation. The grant recipients are known for their success in building alliances, education, research and reporting, and their IP advocacy efforts.
The grantees are:
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (California) $35,000
The mission of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology is to foster beneficial and ethical advancement of technology by promoting the understanding and guiding the development of intellectual property and related fields of law and policy as they intersect with business, science and technology. Attorney Fred von Lohmann is conducting intellectual property law research. http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt
Consumer Project on Technology (CPT) (District of Columbia) $30,000
Established by Ralph Nader, CPT focuses on intellectual property rights and health care, electronic commerce and competition policy. As the primary global advocate for compulsory licensing of patents of essential medicines, CPT responds to trade policies and practices on intellectual property influencing the price of medicines in poor and developing countries. CPT is also addressing the "Hague Treaty on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters" and its consequences for e-commerce. http://www.cptech.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (California) $17,500
A leading organization focused on representing the rights of individuals worldwide, EFF works in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression in the arena of computers and the Internet. EFF works to preserve free expression by upholding rights to digital free expression from political, legal and technical threats, defining digital privacy by empowering people to maintain their privacy and control their digital identity and ensuring systems are designed to respect people's rights, such as free speech, privacy and fair use. http://www.eff.org
Free Software Foundation (FSF) (Massachusetts) $17,500
The Free Software Foundation is dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistribution, understanding, and modification of computer programs by promoting the development and use of free software in all areas of computing. http://www.fsf.org
Collaborative Ownership in a Digital Economy (CODE) (England) $10,000
A partnership between Academic Europaea and the Arts Council of Cambridge, England, CODE (an April 2001 meeting) will examine issues such as community and copyright, recovering the 'collective' independent networks of research and collaboration, the need for intellectual property systems to evolve in line with changing technologies, the shifts in conventional approaches to learning and research enabled by collaborative technologies and the emergence of open code and open content applications as key drivers of the knowledge economy. http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de
Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC) (District of Columbia.) $10,000
EPIC is a public research center established to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, First Amendment rights, and constitutional values. As part of a wide range of landmark reports on critical issues affecting the future of the Internet, EPIC will publish "Surfer Beware IV," a report that examines the extent to which proprietary standards are threatening the privacy, freedom of expression, and the open architecture of the Internet. For other Surfer Beware reports, see http://www.epic.org
Federation for a Free Informational Infrastructure (FFII) (Germany) $10,000
A public-interest association designed to promote free competition in the software field and to fund public interest. FFII is conducting software patent research. http://www.ffii.org
Founded in January 2000, the Center for the Public Domain has awarded over $4.8 million in grants to projects worldwide, supporting efforts to raise public awareness on intellectual property issues and access to information. The Center is a nonprofit foundation that strives to raise awareness, support research and fund educational programs, promote collaboration and build partnerships that strengthen the public community of shared information, culture, and ideas. Its goals are to increase public awareness of the value of growing the public domain and its benefit to society, and to support advocacy that promotes collaboration, open access, and the fair exchange of information.
The Mission of the Center for the Public Domain is to support the growth of a healthy and robust public domain by establishing programs, grants, and partnerships in the areas of academic research, medicine, law, education, media, technology, and the arts.
For more information on the Center for the Public Domain, see http://www.centerpd.org or for information on Center grants, see http://www.centerpd.org/grantmaking/support.html .
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