Month: November 2013

6:11 am on November 12, 2013 · igf (242), isoc-dc (75)

VIDEO: Bali and Beyond: An Internet Governance Forum Debrief #igf @isocdc

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Bali and Beyond

Bali and BeyondOn Friday November 8 2013 the Internet Society Washington DC Chapter presented a forum – Bali and Beyond: An Internet Governance Forum Debrief – at the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center, Washington, DC.

Late last month, more than a thousand delegates from almost a hundred countries gathered for four days at the eighth Internet Governance Forum in Bali, Indonesia, to discuss a wide range of issues related to the future of the Internet–from online privacy to management of domain names to NSA surveillance to human rights in cyberspace. Much of the discussion in Bali revolved around a proposal by ICANN and the Brazilian government to hold a high-level conference on Internet issues in Brazil in late April or early May. At this event more than a dozen IGF participants shared their observations and experiences and participated in a public forum. It was webcast live via the Internet Society Chapters Channel.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/BnECxclnaZc
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/ARrxiksDgM2A/
Twitter: #isocdc | #igf

6:00 am on November 12, 2013 · law (47), patent (10), patent trolls (1), patents (5), policy (40)

POSTPONED: @Dickstein_LLP @InsideCounsel #PatentTrolls roundtable in NYC

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InsideCounsel + Dickstein Shapiro

InsideCounsel + Dickstein ShapiroTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL EARLY 2014

On Tuesday November 19 2013 InsideCounsel and Dickstein Shapiro are hosting an afternoon roundtable that will focus on the issue of patent trolls. The panel will feature the Attorneys General of Missouri, Nebraska, and Vermont speaking about their recent efforts to combat harmful business practices involving patent trolls in their states. The panel also will feature the General Counsels of DuPont, Rackspace, and Walmart US who will speak about the effect patent trolls have had on their businesses. The panel will be moderated by Bernie Nash of Dickstein Shapiro’s State Attorney General Practice. The event includes a budget lunch and a cocktail reception. Admission is free. We have enquired about recording.

What: Patent Troll Roundtable
Where: Intercontinental New York Barclay. 111 East 48th Street. New York, NY 10017
When: POSTPONED UNTIL 2014
Register: http://img.sbmedia.com/perm/strat/sc/psg/ic/dicksteinshapiro/registration.html
Twitter: #patenttrolls

5:21 am on November 12, 2013 · cybercrime (4), John Jay College (1), surveillance (38)

TODAY: Territorial Rights Versus Globalized #Surveillance @JohnJayCollege

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John Jay College

John Jay CollegeToday, Tuesday 12 November 2013 the Center for Cybercrime Studies at John Jay College will present a lecture – Territorial Rights Versus Globalized Surveillance – by Professor Adina Schwartz.

The National Security Agency (“NSA”)’s upstream and PRISM programs are based on technology that enables analysts within the United States to intercept the Internet and telephone communications of people throughout the world. The legal basis for the programs, however, is a territorial distinction. The FISA Amendments Act authorizes warrantless surveillance of the contents of communications if the target of the surveillance is not a United States national and is reasonably believed to be located outside the United States. Through an analysis of the NSA’s upstream and PRISM data collection programs, this paper explores the question: when technology erases territorial limitations on a nation’s surveillance power, should individuals’ legal rights against such surveillance depend on their nationality and geographical location?

To our knowledge there is no recording or webcast planned, so it will be necessary to attend in person.

What: Territorial Rights Versus Globalized Surveillance
Where: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Moot Court, 6th Floor, 524 west 59th Street (entrance on 10th Avenue)
When: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:40pm-3:00 pm EST
RSVP: [email protected]
More info: Doug Salane, 212-237-8803 | [email protected]

6:48 am on November 11, 2013 · canada (26), dan york (8), deploy360 (18), ipv6 (52), isoc canada (8)

VIDEO: ION Toronto @InternetSociety @Deploy360 #IONConf #IPv6 @ISPSummit

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ION Toronto

ION TorontoOn November 11 2013, the Internet Society’s Deploy360 team hosted ION Toronto in Canada. ION Toronto was co-located with the Canadian ISP Summit, which takes place from 11-13 November 2013. ION Conferences bring network engineers and leading industry experts together to discuss emerging technologies including IPv6, DNSSEC, and Routing Resiliency and Security. Early adopters provide valuable insight into their own deployment experiences and bring participants up to speed on new standards emerging from the IETF. Speakers included Dan York, Glenn McKnight, and James Galvin. ION Toronto was webcast live via YouTube, available via both IPv4 and IPv6. Video is below.

View on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxqCvG2dbXA?start=12m31s
Agenda: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ion/toronto2013/agenda/
Twitter: #IONconf

1:03 pm on November 8, 2013 · copyright (81), csusa (20), policy (40), shira perlmutter (1), USG (40)

VIDEO: Shira Perlmutter – From Paralysis to Progress: The (Useful) Art of Copyright Pragmatism @thecsusa #copyright

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On November 4 2013 the Copyright Society of the USA presented the 43rd annual Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture featuring Shira Perlmutter, Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Perlmutter’s topic was From Paralysis to Progress: The (Useful) Art of Copyright Pragmatism . For most of our country’s history, copyright policy and legislation were largely immune from the partisan rancor that has long characterized other areas such as tax policy, social programs,and privacy protection. The organized revolt against recent efforts to enhance copyright protections, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), underscores that things have changed. Panelists Derek Khanna and Ben, who come from both sides of the debate, explored the competing interests and ideologies that brought us here, and how the heightened role of politics in copyright policy is likely to play out. Video is below.



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  • Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/CvtIzRdQxIMo/
3:15 pm on November 7, 2013 · deploy360 (18), ietf (34), ipv6 (52), leslie daigle (6)

VIDEO: #IPv6: What Does Success Look Like? @isoctech briefing #IETF88

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ISOC

ISOCOn Tuesday November 5 2013, at 11:45am PST the Internet Society presented a briefing – IPv6 — What Does Success Look Like? at IETF 88 in Vancouver, Canada. The briefing took the form of a panel, moderated by Internet Society Chief Internet Technical Officer Leslie Daigle, comprising John Brzozowski, Comcast Cable; Erik Nordmark, Arista; and Chris Palmer, Microsoft. The purpose of this panel was to review recent progress in IPv6 deployment, and begin to address the question of what “good” looks like for IPv6. It was webcast live by Internet Society’s Deploy 360 team. Video is below. The action starts at 2:59.

View on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b70UZAmUIU4
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/dUpb7XLjyHSQ/
Twitter: @isoctech

1:42 pm on November 6, 2013 · declan mccullagh (2), isoc-ny tv (53), paul brigner (10), surveillance (38)

ISOC-NY TV show 2pm today: Cyber Surveillance Public Forum continued #inetsf #surveillance

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isoc ny tv

isoc ny tvToday, Wednesday November 6 2013, the ISOC-NY TV show will  present the second part of the webcast of the Cyber Surveillance Public Forum hosted by our SF Bay Area Chapter on October 2 2013. The panel comprises Susan Freiwald, Professor, University of San Francisco Law School, Matthew Sundquist, Former Facebook Privacy Team Member and Co-founder of Plot.ly, and Paul Brigner, North America Regional Bureau Director, Internet Society, moderated by Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent, CNET. The show, which airs from 2-3pm, may be viewed via Manhattan Cable or online via the MNN website.

What: ISOC-NY TV Show – Cyber Surveillance Public Forum Part 2
Where: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
When: Wednesday November 6 2013 2pm-3pm EDT | 1800-1900 UTC
Manhattan Cable: TWC 56 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34
Webcast: http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel

2:37 pm on November 5, 2013 · copyright (81), csusa (20), law (47)

VIDEO: Content Aggregation: Fair Use or a Use Too Far? @theCSUSA #copyright

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On October 24 2013 the Copyright Society of the USA NY Chapter presented: Content Aggregation: Fair Use or a Use Too Far? at the Princeton Club in NYC. Some of the most popular websites are based upon the aggregation of other parties’ published news, photos, television clips and other content. Aggregators who collect and post third-party content tout the utility of their “one-stop viewing” sites and argue that theirs is a fair use of the content. Content owners, however, complain that aggregators profit from their content without providing fair compensation, and that they are not benefiting from the recent surge in digital advertising revenues received by big technology companies such as Google and Facebook. Two recent decisions in the Southern District of New York have re-focused attention on this increasingly important topic: The Associated Press v. Meltwater, in which the court ruled that a media monitoring service’s aggregation of news story excerpts provided to paying subscribers was not fair use, and Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (now on appeal to the Second Circuit), in which the court upheld the creation of an index based on Google’s scanning of millions of books in its library project as fair use. Further, in September Judge Chin heard oral argument in Authors Guild v. Google on whether the posting of book excerpts on Google Books qualifies as fair use, and Fox News recently sued TVEYES, an aggregator of clips from television broadcasts. The panel discussed the evolving law and public policy issues related to these cases and the broader topic of aggregation. Panelists: Bill Herman, Hunter College CUNY; Andy Sellars, Digital Media Law Project and Berkman Center for Internet & Society; and Linda Steinman, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Moderator was Elizabeth McNamara, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Video/audio is below.



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1:40 pm on November 5, 2013 · google (23), isoc-dc (75), michael nelson (6), microsoft (10), oti (20), policy (40), spectrum (25), verizon (11), wireless (20)

VIDEO: Wireless 2020: Spectrum Crisis or Broadband Abundance? #spectrum @isocdc

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On Friday November 1 2013 the Internet Society Washington DC Chapter presented a forum – Wireless 2020: Spectrum Crisis or Broadband Abundance? – at the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center, Washington, DC. The event focused on the future of United States spectrum policy. The panel is Michael Calabrese of the Open Technology Institute, Charla Rath of Verizon, Preston F. Marshall of Google, and Afzal Bari of Bloomberg Government. Also speaking are Michael Nelson & Paula Boyd of Microsoft. The archived webcast is below. Click through to YouTube for an index.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/qIBJqGsVaug
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/97J2D9Ayah4V/
Agenda: http://www.isoc-dc.org/2013/10/wireless-2020-spectrum-crisis-or-broadband-abundance/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/381220748678556/
Twitter: #isocdc | #spectrum

5:01 am on November 4, 2013 · ietf (34)

#IETF88 is underway in Vancouver – remote participation details + @InternetSociety Rough Guide

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ietf

ietfThis coming week  the 88th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is taking place in Vancouver, Canada. As in the past, the Internet Society has published our “Rough Guide to IETF 88“. This document reflects our interests and what we see as the important topics related to the technology priorities we have as an organization.  There is some further commentary from ISOC Chief Internet Technology Officer Leslie Daigle at ‘A Close Encounter of the Standards Kind‘. As always there are plenty of opportunities for remote participation that will allow you to listen to what is going on and to provide comments.

 

What: IETF 88
Where: Vancouver, Canada
When: Nov 3-8, 2013
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/88/
Remote participation: http://www.ietf.org/meeting/88/remote-participation.html
Twitter ietf88