Wednesday, February 24th, 6:15-8pm
The Law.Gov Movement: A Panel Discussion
New York Law School
Room A700
Join the NYU IILP as they welcome Internet pioneer Carl Malamud, President and Founder of Public.Resource.Org, to discuss the Law.Gov movement and it’s opportunities for citizens to help change the way we distribute America’s Operating System. He will be joined by distinguished Information Law scholars Helen Nissenbaum and Nicholas Bramble.
This event is open to the public. Please RSVP to Naomi Allen at naomi.allen@nyls.edu.
EmanciPay is a new way for media to make money. It’s a choosing system — one by which readers, listeners and viewers can easily choose to pay whatever they like, whenever they like, for the media goods they use — and to do that on their own terms, and not just those of media suppliers’ arcane systems.
The idea is to build a new marketplace for media - one where supply and demand can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by thousands of different silo’d systems, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.
EmanciPay is a breed of VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management. VRM is the reciprocal of CRM or Customer Relationship Management. VRM provides customers with tools for engaging with vendors in ways that work for both parties. EmanciPay is one of those tools. Or a set of them.
ProjectVRM is a research and development project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. It was created by Doc Searls, a fellow at the Center, to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.
Featuring Jim Griffin & Prof. Frank Pasquale. Moderated By Prof. Felix Wu
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Moot Court Room, Cardozo School of Law, 5th Ave @ 12th St NYC
The discussion will focus on the future of the music industry in the United States. How should content be paid for, and what are the ramifications of technological advancements? How will these technologies affect the music publishing, licensing, and copyright industries? We will explore the role that Google plays as the ‘worlds’ information bank’, and the possibility of new technologies playing more than a subsidiary role in this game given the outcome of the Google Books Settlement. What models are available to us and where are we heading?
Project CCNx™ is an open source project exploring the next step in networking, based on one fundamental architectural change: replacing named hosts with named content as the primary abstraction.
CCNx was launched with ideas from PARCs Content-Centric Networking CCN research program. The PARC CCN architecture takes content as a primitive and decouples location from identity, security, and access, with no concept of host/machine at the lowest level. We believe that such a focus on what not where addresses todays communication problems better than the traditional model of packet networking, yet can preserve design decisions that made TCP/IP simple, robust, and scalable. Project CCNx is a vehicle for sharing these ideas with the research community.
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) will be holding its 25th Public Policy Meeting in Toronto on April 18-21 2010.
ARIN manages the distribution of Internet number resources, including IPv4 and IPv6 address space and AS numbers. With the pool of IPv4 numbers rapidly expiring, important decisions have to be made.
Fellowship Program
ARIN will provide financial support for one individual from each of the three sectors within ARIN’s service area (Canada, the Caribbean and North Atlantic Islands, and the United States and Outlying Areas) to attend ARIN XXV Public Policy and Members Meeting. Priority will be given to applicants who will be attending their first ARIN meeting. The purpose of the fellowship program is to broaden education outreach in the community and bring new ideas into the public policy discussions.
The U.S. Dept. of Commerce, following President Obama’s Open Government Directive, has opened open.commerce.gov – an open portal on the web. The new online presence includes accounts at YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace .
Suggestions / comments are being gathered at Ideascale
Policy makers, practitioners, students and faculty will come together to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by rapidly developing digital technologies. This comes at a time when the intersections between digital technology and international affairs are increasingly evident, from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent speech on internet freedom and the China-Google censorship controversy, to the use of Twitter during the Haiti earthquake and the Iranian elections. (schedule)
Featured speakers include Richard Boly, Director of the Office of eDiplomacy for the U.S. State Department, and Internet Society trustee Jonathan Zittrain.
Thursday, February 25, 6:00-7:30 pm Harvard Law School
On February 25, 2010, Lawrence Lessig will deliver a talk on fair use and politics in online video from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. Come in person, or tune in to a live webcast at http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig.
In conjunction with the Cambridge event, OVA is hosting screenings in cities around the world. Many of these screenings will be followed by special presentations. In New York, check out a curation by the ReMixed Media Festival. In Los Angeles, take part in a Critical Commons workshop. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out a live audiovisual demonstration by Eclectic Method at Stanford Law School. For more details, or to host your own event, visit http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig.
Lessig’s talk will explore copyright in a digital age, and the importance of a doctrine like fair use for free expression on the Internet. Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video. As a medium, online video will be most powerful when it is fluid, like a conversation. Like the rest of the internet, online video must be designed to encourage participation, not just passive consumption.
NYC Screening @ The Open Planning Project 148 Lafayette: RSVP | Facebook
In a The Register article Kieren McCarthy digests a new ICANN report on the status of the WHOIS system*. According to their methods, only 23% of domains are registered to valid addresses. However, PO Boxes – used by many to hide private residence information – failed their test.
Kieren note that the last time a full study of Whois accuracy was commissioned – in 2005 – it was reported that only 5 per cent of domain names contained “missing or patently false information.”
That report was dismissed by those in the know as being wildly inaccurate because it didn’t look into the accuracy of information, but only whether it appeared normal. Today’s report discovered roughly the same 5 per cent of nonsense information but found a far greater percentage of wrong or false information by looking at the actual data itself.
ICANN is obliged under its Affirmation of Commitments with the US government to maintain the Whois service as well as “assess the extent to which WHOIS policy is effective and its implementation meets the legitimate needs of law enforcement and promotes consumer trust.”
The public is invited to comment on the report – submit your own thoughts – here.
*In November 2006 ISOC-NY held a public forum – “The Future of WHOIS” – on just this issue.
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