Stanford CIS event: Cyberlaw in Supreme Court

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Subject: pho: Stanford CIS event: Cyberlaw in Supreme Court
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:28:23 -0500
From: Fred von Lohmann <[email protected]>
To: "'Pho' (E-mail)" <[email protected]>

FYI. I won't be there, but counsel to Grokster, Mike Page, will
be.

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>
> Cyberlaw in the Supreme Court
> April 30, 2005
> Stanford Law School
> http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/supreme/
>
> Registration now Open!
>
> On March 29, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in two 
> cases that together will greatly determine how government can and will 
> regulate the Internet in the future, and the impact that the public 
> interest will have on the development of cyberlaw over the next 
> decade.
>
> In MGM v. Grokster, the Court will decide whether copyright holders 
> can veto consumer electronics and computing innovations that upset the 
> content industries' prevailing business models, even where the 
> technology's non-infringing uses provide substantial benefits to 
> consumers.  The question is whether consumer demand for new and better 
> products will drive technological development, or copyright owners' 
> demand for control will retard it.
>
> In Brand X v. FCC, the Court will decide whether the FCC should retain 
> the option to regulate cable modem services to promote open access to 
> broadband lines, universal service and network neutrality, as it did 
> in the early days of the Internet when most people connected over 
> common-carrier telephone lines.  The question is whether tomorrow's 
> communications services will be defined by citizen choices or by the 
> business interests of a handful of cable broadband companies.
>
> At Cyberlaw in the Supreme Court, the Stanford Law School Center for 
> Internet and Society will convene a discussion of these cases, their 
> broader implications, and what effect the pending Supreme Court 
> decisions could have on the public interest.  Panels of attorneys 
> litigating and arguing these cases, the parties affected by them, the 
> policy advocates whose work will begin once the Judges rule, and the 
> people thinking about what the legal landscape will look like for the 
> next ten years will discuss both cases and the impact the decisions 
> will have on the future.
>
> Register at: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/supreme/


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