If you live in the DC area, you should mark your calendar for Wednesday, April 26, when the Cato Institute will be having a half-day conference on copyright law. Three TLF contributors will be participating. First, co-blogger (and conference organizer) Jim Harper will be appearing on the first panel on “the foundations of copyright.” He’ll be sharing the stage with Jim DeLong of PFF, who I imagine will argue for IP, and David Levine, author of Against Intellectual Monopoly. I bet you’ll see some lively disagreement there.
Far more important, however, is the third panel on the DMCA. I’ll be participating, as will co-blogger Solveig Singleton, Business Software Alliance attorney Emery Simon, and Consumer Electronics Association president Gary Shapiro. Word on the street is that the BSA loves the DMCA while the CEA hates it, so I expect some fireworks on that panel as well.
It should be an entertaining and informative debate, so I encourage you to sign up today. There should also be a live video stream of the proceedings for those of you who don’t live near DC.
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