[This is a well-deserved profile. --Declan] --- Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 07:51:55 -0700 (PDT) From: blano <bwarreneat_private> To: declanat_private Subject: WSJ.com - The Legal Theorist Most of your folks would (or should) have seen this piece in the WSJ this morning. Great article in light of the many DMCA threads on the Politech list.... http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1020884132662876320,00.html The Legal Theorist What is intellectual property in the age of PCs and the Internet? Pamela Samuelson thinks she knows By PHYLLIS PLITCH Right from the start, personal computers were a lightning rod for copyright battles. First it was software programs that used similar design elements. Then the Internet opened up whole new areas of contention, from music swapping on Napster to the current debate over how far Hollywood can go in preventing hackers from copying and distributing movies online. Pamela Samuelson has helped shape the course of these battles. For more than 15 years, Ms. Samuelson, now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, has been fighting what she sees as overzealous and innovation-stifling expansion of copyright laws in the high-tech arena. She has written influential scholarly articles for academic publications, filed friend-of-the-court briefs in landmark cases and organized academic conferences where ideas can be refined and disseminated. COPYRIGHTS AND TECHNOLOGY Join the Discussion: What do you think the future holds for intellectual property copyrights? How can technology expand and create while protecting the rights of those who create content? In addition, she has made her mark on the next generation of copyright activists: With her husband, Robert Glushko, she helped launch two law-school clinics that specialize in the intersection of law and technology, and she serves as a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based group that advocates for free speech and civil liberties on the Internet. Now she is taking on one of her biggest challenges so far -- attacking the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, an anti-piracy law backed by the entertainment industry. Ms. Samuelson thinks the law protects intellectual-property rights at the expense of technological research and innovation, as well as the broader public interest. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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