FC: SF and DC events: Stanford (3/1), Cato (2/5), EPIC (5/9)

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 06:46:19 PST

  • Next message: Declan McCullagh: "FC: NASA replies to Politech post by deleting website bio?"

    ---
    
    Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:37:15 -0800
    To: declanat_private
    From: Lauren Gelman <laurenat_private>
    
    Hi Declan.
    
    Can you circulate to Politech?  Registration is now open!
    
    thx.
    
    -Lauren
    
    _______________
    
    Spectrum Policy:
    Property or Commons?
    Stanford Law School
    March 1-2, 2003
    
    Sponsored by:
    Thomas Hazlett, the Manhattan Institute, and
    Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
    Full conference details and registration at: 
    http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/
    
    Highlights:
    
    **A moot court where  "property"  proponents Thomas Hazlett and Professor 
    Gerald R. Faulhaber  will debate "commons" proponents Professor Lawrence 
    Lessig and Professor Yochai Benkler about which architecture most 
    effectively promotes efficiency and innovation. This moot court will honor 
    Nobel Prize winning economist Ronald Coase, who criticized the FCC's 
    spectrum policy in 1959, arguing that rules preempting private ownership of 
    spectrum led to catastrophic inefficiencies in the market. The Judges will 
    include FCC Chairman Michael Powell, renowned economist Harold Demsetz, and 
    Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski.
    
    **Professor Yochai Benkler, from NYU Law School, presenting a proposal to 
    treat spectrum as a commons with comments by Professors Gerald R. 
    Faulhaber, former FCC Chief economist, Professor David Farber, former FCC 
    technologist, Professor Howard Shelanski, former FCC Chief Economist, and 
    J. Gregory Sidak, Director of AEI's Telecommunications Deregulation Project.
    
    **Presentations of two property based proposals for regulating spectrum, 
    including "A Proposal for a Rapid Transition to Market Allocation of 
    Spectrum" from the FCC Office of Plans and Policy and a paper by Thomas 
    Hazlett of the Manhattan Institute, with comments by Dewayne Hendricks, CEO 
    of the The Dandin Group, Tim Shepard, and Kevin Werbach, former Counsel for 
    New Technology Policy at the FCC.
    
    **Dr. David P. Reed explaining what's different about emerging spectrum 
    technologies? Why do they present new regulatory issues? what's new, and 
    just why that should matter.
    
    **Lunch panel with presentations on a number of business models for 
    utilizing spectrum under both property and commons regulatory regimes 
    including mesh networks and Community wireless networking.
    
    ** Sunday Workshop on "Spectrum Etiquette" where participants will explore 
    whether the unlicensed spectrum band needs etiquette rules at this time? Or 
    should the FCC leave the space alone?
    
    Full conference details and registration at: 
    http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/
    
    Registration:
    
      Corporate ($695)
      Academic/Non-Profit/Government ($195)
      Student ($50)
      Press (free, but must register)
    
    CLE credit available
    
    
    
    -- 
    
    
    
    Lauren Gelman, Esq.
    Assistant Director
    Center for Internet and Society
    
    Stanford Law School
    Crown Quadrangle
    559 Nathan Abbott Way
    Stanford, CA 94305-8610
    
    (ph) 650-724-3358
    (fax) 650-723-4426
    gelmanat_private
    
    ---
    
    Subject: Cato Broadcast Flag Forum, Feb. 5th
    Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:36:48 -0500
    From: "Thomas Pearson" <tpearsonat_private>
    To: <declanat_private>
    
    Hi Declan,
    
    Politech readers may be interested in an upcoming Cato Policy Forum: Battle 
    over the Broadcast Flag.  Thanks,
    
    Thomas Pearson
    
    Invitation follows:
    
    
    http://www.cato.org/events/030205pf.html
    
    
    Battle over the Broadcast Flag: The IP Wars and the HDTV Transition
    
    POLICY FORUM
    Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 11:00 a.m. (Luncheon to follow)
    
    Featuring Fritz Attaway, Motion Picture Association of America; Jim Burger, 
    Dow, Lohnes & Albertson; Mike Godwin, Public Knowledge; and Andy Setos, Fox 
    Entertainment Group.
    
    The Cato Institute
    1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
    Washington, DC 20001
    
    The IP wars have shifted to a new battlefield the Federal Communications 
    Commission as the content and the computer industries square off over how 
    to protect broadcast video programming. Programmers fear the 
    "Napsterization" of their programming as digital television transmissions 
    become more popular and propose that a federally mandated broadcast flag be 
    included in all future programming and receiving devices to prevent piracy. 
    Computer companies and many consumer interest groups argue that the FCC 
    should not mandate technology standards for electronic devices and deprive 
    consumers of their fair use rights. Who will prevail in this latest IP 
    skirmish?
    
    Cato policy forums and luncheons are free of charge. To register for this 
    event, please fill out the form below and click submit or call Krystal 
    Brand by February 4, 2003, at (202) 789-5229, fax her at (202) 371-0841, or 
    e-mail to kbrandat_private News media inquiries only (no registrations), 
    please call 202-789-5200. If you can't make it to the Cato Institute, watch 
    this forum live online.
    
    http://www.cato.org/events/030205pf.html
    
    ---
    
    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:41:35 -0500
    To: declanat_private
    From: Mihir Kshirsagar <mihirat_private>
    Subject: Symposium announcement
    
    Declan,
    Could you please post this save-the-date announcement to Politech?
    thanks!
    Mihir
    
    --------------------
    Mihir Kshirsagar
    Policy Analyst
    www.epic.org
    
    *******************
    *Save the date* May 9-10 Uniting Privacy & First Amendment Symposium, 
    Oakland, CA
    
    Uniting Privacy and the First Amendment in the 21st Century is an activist 
    Symposium designed to explore the interplay between privacy and First 
    Amendment rights with the goal of developing strategies for optimizing 
    both.The event is sponsored by First Amendment Project, Electronic Privacy 
    Information Center and the Office of Privacy Protection of the California 
    Department of Consumer Affairs. The conference will be held May 9-10 in 
    Oakland, California. Visit http://www.epic.org/events/unitingsymposium/ for 
    more information.
    
    Request for proposals:
    
    This conference will be a participatory strategic meeting of activists and 
    experts in the areas of privacy and First Amendment rights.  We are 
    planning both informational sessions to bring attendees up to speed on 
    quickly evolving issues as well as smaller working group sessions designed 
    to foster strategy formulation and future collaboration. We are currently 
    accepting proposals for presentations for both informational and working 
    group sessions.  If you are interested in making a presentation or leading 
    a Working Group, please submit a brief letter outlining your proposed 
    presentation to 
    <mailto:dgreeneat_private>dgreeneat_private 
    Proposals should include a brief explanation of the issue to be addressed, 
    a list of possible presenters, and the desired outcome of the session.  We 
    are particularly interested in presentations that will foster interaction 
    among participants, leading to plans for moving forward, draft legislation, 
    and other types of  proactive results.
    
    *******************
    
    
    
    
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    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/
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/
    Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Mon Feb 03 2003 - 06:51:33 PST