--- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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