UC Berkeley DRM Conference

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

<[ I will be there as a speaker etc djf]>

Music is being released on copy-protected CDs, movies on encrypted and
region-encoded DVDs, and Congress is considering the mandate of
technological protection for digital television. The next generation of
information distribution will be defined by the purchase of rights to
receive digital content for a set of defined and controlled uses. Digital
Rights Management (DRM) systems are the technological measures built into
the hardware or software of home computers, digital televisions, stereo
equipment, and portable devices in order to manage the relationships between
users and protected expression. As technological solutions increasingly
interact and even supersede the laws of intellectual property, privacy, and
contract law, it is imperative for everyone from lawyers, technologists, and
policy-makers to artists and consumers to keep up with the changes.

The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT) and the Berkeley
Technology Law Journal (BTLJ) are proud to announce this year's
ground-breaking conference confronting the controversies surrounding digital
rights management. We have assembled the leading thinkers from industry,
academia, government, and the nonprofit sector to engage in a broad-ranging
conversation about the legal, technological, and policy landscape of digital
rights management systems, discuss recent developments, and debate the
future balance of content protection, fair use, and privacy.

The conference will begin with a tutorial on Thursday that includes one
session on DRM technology and one on the current legal and policy landscape.
This tutorial will be essential for those less familiar with DRM and will
allow everyone to participate in the high-level discussion of the
conference. Panel discussions will focus on:

€ DRM as an enabler of new business models
€ Impact of DRM on innovation, competition, and security
€ Impact of DRM on the free flow of information
€ Impact of DRM on consumers
€ DRM-related legal and policy initiatives in the U.S.
€ Anti-circumvention regulations in the US and elsewhere

Please join us for this year's conference, Feb. 27-Mar. 1, and don't get
left behind in the most important change in the area of law and technology
today.

<http://www.law.berkeley.edu/bclt/drm/>http://www.law.berkeley.edu/bclt/drm/

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