FC: Heritage online journalism; "Beyond Napster" events this week

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[I will be speaking at these events, and I believe they are free to the 
public. --Declan]

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The Heritage Foundation's Center for Media and Public Policy
and the Center for Technology Freedom (Dallas, TX)

Invite you to a "Scholars and Scribes" seminar:

Government and the New Economy:
Facilitator or Threat?

Monday, November 13
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

at  The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E.
Washington, DC


AGENDA:

9:00 a.m.       Continental Breakfast


9:25            Welcome
                Mark Tapscott, Manager of Media Programs, The Heritage
Foundation


9:30-10:45      Panel 1: The Scholars' Views
                Moderator: Adam Thierer, Alex C. Walker Fellow in Economic
Policy, The Heritage Foundation
                Robert D. Atkinson, Director of the Technology and New
Economy Project, Progressive Policy Institute
                Bartlett D. Cleland, Director, IPI Center for Technology
Freedom
                James Glassman, TechCentralStation.com, and author, "Dow
36,000"


11:00-12:30     Panel 2: The Scribes Respond
                Moderator: Declan McCullagh, Washington Bureau Chief, Wired News
                Bara Vaida, Senior Writer, National Journal Technology Daily
                Merrill Mathews, Visiting Scholar, Institute for Policy
Innovation, and member, Investor's Business Daily "Brain
Trust"
                Sasha Samberg-Champion, Deputy Managing Editor, Washington
Internet Daily
                Will Rodger, Technology Correspondent, USA Today


Please RSVP to: Chris Kennedy, (202) 608-6156

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Once again, thank you for accepting our invitation to participate on the 
panel at our upcoming symposium, Beyond Napster: Debating the Future of 
Copyright on the Internet.  The symposium will take place on Thursday, 
November 16th from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., on the 6th floor of the 
[American University in Washington DC] Washington College of Law in the 
Mooers-Morella Courtroom.

The following is the schedule of events which includes a list of all 
participating panelists.  Please review the agenda and email any 
substantive corrections to your name, title or affiliation.  Also, please 
send an updated biography, list of all published works and photograph for 
symposium materials.  If you have already sent these materials, you do not 
need to resubmit them.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Registration, Continental Breakfast 8:00 a.m.

WELCOME ADDRESS
Andrew D. Pike, Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs,
Co-director of Law and Business Program, Washington College of Law

OPENING REMARKS             9:00 a.m.
Bruce Lehman, President & CEO, International Intellectual Property Institute

BREAK                   9:30 a.m.

PANEL ONE               9:45 a.m.
THE ROAD TO NAPSTER: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY & DIGITAL CONTENT
Moderated By Christine H. Farley, Professor, Washington College of Law
Jonathan Band, Partner, Morrison & Foerster
George M. Borkowski, Partner, Mitchell, Silberg & Knupp, LLP
Shubbha Ghosh, Professor, University of Buffalo Law School
James H. Laughlin, Partner, Arter & Hadden
Michael J. Madison, Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Declan McCullagh, Wired
Peter K. Schalestock, Associate, Perkins Coie, LLP

BREAK                   10:45 a.m.

PANEL TWO               11:00 a.m.
WHICH LEGAL RULES CONTROL?: EVALUATING ARGUMENTS
Moderated By Christine H. Farley, Professor, Washington College of Law
Peter Brown, Brown, Raysman, Millstein, Felder & Steiner, LLP
Tim Casey, Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Fred Davis, Davis, Shapiro & Lewitt
Peter Jaszi, Professor, Washington College of Law
Jeffrey G. Knowles, Partner, Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, LLP
Ray Patterson, Professor, University of Georgia School of Law
William K. Wells, Jr., Partner, Kenyon & Kenyon

KEYNOTE ADDRESS & LUNCHEON      12:40 p.m.
Keynote Address, The Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan, United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of New York

PANEL THREE             2:00 p.m.
NEW BUSINESS MODELS, REGULATORY OPTIONS AND THE FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT ON THE 
INTERNET
Moderated by Joshua J. Kaufman, Partner, Venable, Baetjer, Howard & 
Civiletti, LLP; Adjunct Professor, Washington College of Law
Ann Bartow, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law
Edward J Black, President, Computer & Communications Industry Association
Philip S. Corwin, Partner, Butera & Andrews; President, Virtulaw, LLC
Keith Kupferschmid, Intellectual Property Counsel, Software Information 
Industry Association
Bennett M. Lincoff, Senior Partner, Darby & Darby
David Pakman, Co-Founder & SVP Business Development, myplay.com
Emery Simon, Counselor, Business Software Alliance

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