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[MJ Ray]

Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:41:42 +0100
From: Ian Brown <address@hidden>
Subject: FIPR-Bulletin: Conference announcement: A Fair Deal on Copyright?

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A Fair Deal on Copyright?

http://www.fipr.org/events.html

WHAT:   A mini-conference organised by
        The Foundation for Information Policy Research

WHEN:   5.30pm-7pm, Wednesday 25 September 2002

WHERE:  The Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House,
        LSE, The Aldwych, London WC2A 2AE.

                Hosted by the Department of Information Systems,
                London School of Economics

Admission: free.

        Space is limited, so please RSVP to address@hidden if you
        would like to attend.

PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE THIS FLYER UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER
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The Internet has presented a dramatic challenge to the existing copyright
regime. Rights holders such as the music and film industry claim that their
businesses are losing many millions of dollars each year to file-swapping
networks such as Napster and its successors. One of their main responses has
been to lobby for changes in copyright legislation to restrict the ability
of consumers to extract and exchange content on-line.

The UK government is now holding a consultation on legislation to update UK
law in this area, based on the European Union's recent Copyright Directive.
This would criminalise certain copyright infringements and circumvention of
technology that controls access to media such as DVDs.

Would the draft legislation properly balance the incentives given to content
creators through copyright, with the benefits to society of the free
exchange of information? What effect will criminalising "circumvention
technologies" have on computer and Internet security? Will authors,
musicians and film-makers needing to sample previous works become criminals?

At this conference you can debate the issues with speakers from the Patent
Office and open source and library communities, and hear how well similar US
legislation has worked in practice.

Speakers:

The Patent Office: Intro and Q&A on the copyright consultation
Julian Midgley, FIPR: Problems with the draft legislation
Toby Bainton, Society of College, National and University Libraries: The
effect on the UK's libraries
Barbara Simons, Association for Computing Machinery: Where the United States
went wrong on copyright

Background:

The Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC) - UK Implementation, The Patent Office:
http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/eccopyright/index.htm

Critique of the Proposed UK Implementation of the EU Copyright Directive,
Julian Midgley:
http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/eucd/ukimpl/critique_uk_impl.html

ACM briefings on the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act:
http://www.acm.org/usacm/IP/#copyright

Media contacts:

Ian Brown, Director, FIPR: address@hidden / 07970 164 526
Ross Anderson, Chair, FIPR: address@hidden / 01223 33 47 33
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