FC: WSJ profile of Pam Samuelson and her copyright battles

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 21:51:36 PDT

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    [This is a well-deserved profile. --Declan]
    
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    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.
    
        [...]
    
    
    
    
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