AOL Copyright conference invitation

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

From: SusanLesch () aol com


  Invitation to all with America Online access! If the subject
  interests you, feel free to post this announcement elsewhere.
  If you receive this message, thank you for your input on
  this project, which arose from an article of mine TidBITS
  magazine patiently edited, and published in #233 on 4-Jul.



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  Join us next Wednesday night for a rare opportunity to meet with
  the BSA, EFF, and SPA. We are pleased to present a live
  conference, "Copyright of Digital Work," in the AOL Rotunda, on
  Wednesday, August 24, 1994, at 10 PM Eastern. (keyword:ROTUNDA)


  The conference will be an open discussion of copyright,
  intellectual property rights in digital work, and piracy. The
  guests will be:


  Robert Holleyman President, Business Software Alliance,
  (representing Aldus, Apple Computer, Autodesk, Intergraph, Lotus
  Development, Microsoft, Novell / WordPerfect, and the Santa Cruz
  Operation)


  Mike Godwin Staff Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation, (and
  author of articles on virtual communities and cyberspace)


  Peter Beruk Manager of Litigation, Software Publishers
  Association, (representing 1100 software publishers)


  Our moderators will be AOL's Lee Grant (ICS Lee) and Susan G.
  Lesch (SusanLesch).


  Possible surprise guests:


  Esther Dyson President, EDventure Holdings, (and member, National
  Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, and member of the
  Board of Directors, EFF)


  John Perry Barlow Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation, (and
  lyricist, Grateful Dead, popular author and speaker on
  intellectual property rights, and the man who coined the name
  "Electronic Frontier")


Susan Lesch
Forum Consultant, Macintosh Utilities Forum
America Online, Inc.