IP: Future Workshop on the Management of Digital Intellectual Property

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

Someone should trademark IP and then force people to use another term 
for this one -- JUST KIDDING DJF

> Some of you, especially those interested in security issues, may find this
> workshop of special interest.
>
>
> DIMACS  Workshop on the Management of Digital IP
>
>             April 17-18, 2000, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA
>
>                          CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>
> Critical to the development of e-commerce is the management of digital
> intellectual property (IP).  Technology has challenged the status quo
> of IP management in many ways.  Widespread use of personal computers
> and Internet communication creates vast opportunities for producers,
> distributors, and consumers of digital works of all forms, but it
> also threatens to render copying and modification of these works
> completely uncontrollable.  DIMACS will sponsor a two-day series of
> technical talks and "position statements" on the design, development,
> and deployment of IP-management technology that strikes the right
> balance between the need to control copying and modification and the
> desire to foster innovative uses of digital works that have been
> enabled by computing and communication advances.
>
> Speakers are encouraged to address all technical, legal, and business
> aspects of digital IP management.  Companies offering relevant products
> and services are encouraged to participate and to submit abstracts or
> papers outlining their approach.
>
> Topics appropriate for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
>
>     * Intellectual property protection.
>     * Anti piracy techniques.
>     * Legal issues in the protection of digital rights.
>     * New business models for managing digital rights.
>     * Passive content protection, e.g. watermarking, tracing traitors.
>     * Active content protection, e.g. software tamper resistance.
>     * Hardware solutions to content protection.
>
> WORKSHOP URL:   http://crypto.stanford.edu/DIMACS/
>
>
>                         INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
>
> Authors are strongly encouraged to send their submission electronically.
> Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover
> letter and 4 copies of a submission (double-sided copies preferred) to
> the postal address below.  Submissions must be received on or before
> January 17, 2000 (or postmarked by January 5, 2000, and sent via airmail
> or courier).  The cover letter should contain the submission's title and
> the names and affiliations of the authors and should identify the
> contact author including e-mail and postal addresses.
>
> Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract or a full-length
> paper or position statement.
>
> (1)  Abstract submissions should contain a title, list of authors, and
>     an abstract describing the proposed talk.  The abstract should
>     indicate whether the authors intend to submit a full-length paper
>     in case the abstract is accepted.
>
> (2)  Full-length submissions should begin with a title, list of authors,
>     and a short abstract.  The introduction should summarize the
>     contributions of the work at a level appropriate for a
>     non-specialist reader. The submission should be at most 12 pages
>     excluding the bibliography and clearly marked appendices,
>     using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. The organizers
>     do not guarantee that they will read appendices; so submissions
>     should be intelligible without them.
>
> Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by
> February 14, 2000.
>
>
>                           CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
>
> We will decide whether to publish a proceedings for the workshop based
> on the number of full-length submissions.  If the number and quality
> of full-length submissions are sufficient, proceedings will be
> published by the American Mathematical Society as a volume in the
> DIMACS series.
>
> CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
> (1) Paul Kocher, Cryptography Research.
> (2) Stuart Haber, InterTrust.
> (3) Narayanan Shivakumar, Univ. Washington
> (4) Paul Callas, Kroll-O'Gara
>
> DATES:
>      SUBMISSION: January 17, 2000
>      ACCEPTANCE: February 14, 2000
>      Pre-PROCEEDINGS VERSION: March 24, 2000
>
> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
>      Dan Boneh, Stanford University, USA
>      Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs -- Research
>      Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft Research
>
> ADDRESS FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
>      dabo () cs stanford edu
>
> ADDRESS FOR NON-ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
>      Dan Boneh, DIMACS workshop,
>      Gates 475,
>      Stanford, CA, 94304-9045
>      U.S.A
>      Phone: (1) 650-725-3897    Fax:   (1) 650-725-4671
>      E-mail: dabo () cs stanford edu
>
> STIPENDS: A limited number of stipends are available to those unable
> to obtain funding to attend the workshop.  Students giving talks
> at the workshop are encouraged to apply if such assistance is
> needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to Joan Feigenbaum
> at jf () research att com or 973 360-8442.