ACIS Fall Meeting - Friday, October 23

[cross-posted to cyberprof, cni-copyright, and cyberia. Sorry for the duplication, and for contributing to the absurd message overload on the latter.]

Mark Lemley
<mlemley[_at_]mail.law.berkeley.edu>

> ACIS Fall Meeting
> Berkeley, CA
> October 23, 1998
>
> 9:00 a.m. - - 2:00 p.m.
>
> "THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT: BRIDGE OR BARRIER TO
> THE 21ST CENTURY?"
>
>
> This year, the annual ACIS Autumn Meeting will be held in Booth
> Auditorium at Boalt Hall on the campus of the University of California
> at Berkeley law school on Friday, October 23rd. The morning session of
> the meeting will run from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with a luncheon
> scheduled from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm. The luncheon will be held in the
> Ida and Robert Sproul Room of the International House (2299 Piedmont
> Ave., Berkeley, CA), directly across the street from the law school
> where the meeting will be held. Continental breakfast will also be
> available for early arrivals in the Booth Auditorium from 8:30 am to
> 9:00 am.
>
> The theme for this years meeting will be "The Digital Millennium
> Copyright Act: Bridge or Barrier to the 21st Century?" Coming right
> on the heels of the end of the congressional session, this meeting will
> provide an excellent opportunity to assess what has been wrought in
> domestic legislation, as well as a good vantage point to look down the
> road at what may lie ahead in the area of interoperability.
>
> The agenda for the meeting will include:
>
> * Continental Breakfast (8:30 am - 9:00 am)
>
> * Morning session (9:00 am - 12:30 pm)
>
> - The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: What it does and what
> it means.
> * Anti-circumvention provisions
> * Database protection
> * On-line Service Provider liability
>
> - Update on UCC Article 2(B)
>
> - Discussion of international developments in the EU, Australia
> and the Pacific Rim
>
> - The Justice Department case against Microsoft
>
> * Luncheon (12:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
> - Speaker to be determined
>
>
> Speakers: (* = invited to speak)
>
> Rep. Zoe Lofgren* - U.S. Representative (D-16-CA)
> Prof. Mark Lemley - Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law
> Chris Byrne - Director, Intellectual Property, Silicon Graphics
> Jonathan Band - Morrison & Foerster
> Alex Fowler - Electronic Frontier Foundation
> Peter Choy - Chairman, ACIS/Deputy General Counsel, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> Peter Harter - Global Public Policy Counsel, Netscape Communications Corp.
> Prof. John Barton - Stanford Law School
> Brad Handler* - eBay, Inc.
>
>
> For those of you traveling to Berkeley from out of town, there are two
> hotels convenient to the University's campus. The contact information
> is as follows:
>
> * Claremont Hotel - (510) 843-3000 (direct)
>
> * Bancroft Hotel - (510) 549-1000
> ** Refer to ACIS group rate available until
> October 7, 1998
>
> There is no charge for attending the meeting. While registration is
> not required for the morning session of the meeting, we do ask that you
> please notify us if you plan to attend the luncheon so we will know how
> many people to expect and be able to plan accordingly. Please forward
> your name, title and affiliation to Pettrice Joseph at (202) 347-4060
> [phone]; (202) 347-3892 [fax]; or pettrice_joseph[_at_]stortek.com [e-mail],
> and indicate if you will be attending just the morning session, just
> the luncheon, or both.
>
> Hope to see you at the meeting!
>
> Lowell Sachs
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
> *****************************************
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>
> ___ I will attend the luncheon, but not the morning session
>
> ___ Sorry, I will be unable to attend this year's ACIS meeting
>
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