The former Digital Music East and Digital Music West Forums have, in 2013, been combined into one event called just DMW Music, which took place in NYC in February. Here is video of a panel, convened by Jim Griffin, on the state of digital copyright, specifically as applied to music in the USA market.
Michael Petricone, SVP, Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Sandra Aistars, Executive Director, Copyright Alliance Michael Drexler, Executive Director, Bus Dev, New Media & Strategic Development, BMI Jay Rosenthal, SVP & General Counsel, National Music Publishers’ Association Darryl Ballantyne, CEO & Founder, LyricFind Les Watkins, SVP Business Affairs & Business Development, Music Reports Colin Rushing, General Counsel, SoundExchange
At the February 2013 OpenITP Tech-Activism 3rd Monday in NYC Nabiha Syed talked about online safety for journalists and small publishers. Nabiha co-founded Yale University’s Media Law Clinic, and since has been a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, worked at the New York Times as their First Amendment Fellow, and currently works as an attorney at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP. Video is below. Please try to find time to contribute to transcribing at AMARA.
On February 19 2013 Lawrence Lessig marked his appointment as Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School with a lecture titled “Aaron’s Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age.” The lecture honored the memory and work of Aaron Swartz, the programmer and activist who took his own life on Jan. 11, 2013 at the age of 26. Swartz spent the last two years fighting federal charges that he violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Video is below, Please help with captioning at AMARA,
Tonight, Monday February 18 2013, the Free Culture Alliance NYC will meet at the monthly OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday. As well as the usual food and drink the featured presented will be Jeff Hermes, Director, Digital Media Law Project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, who will provide activists with advice and tools that will help them minimize their risks and protect themselves and understand their online rights.
Panelists explored the recent Flava Works vs MyVidster decision in the Seventh Circuit on liability for in-line linking, contrasting it to the Ninth Circuit’s holding in Perfect 10, and expanding the discussion to online copyright linking more generally, a la Pinterest, etc., any “bright lines” that do or do not exist in this area, and the potential commercial impact of court rulings on linking. Professor Eva Subotnik of St. John’s Law School moderated, with panelists Greg Leighton of Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP (counsel for defendant in Flava Works) and Marty Schwimmer of Leason Ellis (pioneering IP blogger).
One topic broached is the possibility of class actions by compromised users, and some company’s efforts to do an end around by forbidding same in their terms of use. Details of such can be found in LinkedIn Security Breach Triggers $5 Million Lawsuit (InformationWeek)
The second Innovate / Activate Conference will start today April 20 2012 at the University of California’s Berkeley Law School. The conference’s purpose is “improving global welfare by diagnosing new and existing Intellectual Property-related challenges to activism, developing strategies for overcoming IP obstacles, and delivering practical solutions.” ISOC-NY participated in last year’s inaugural event at New York Law School. reddit co-Founder Alexis Ohanian is giving the opening keynote at 2.15pm PDT (5.15pm EDT | 2115 UTC) today. Other participants include Parker Higgins, James Grimmelmann, and Elizabeth Stark. The event will be webcast live and archived. It will be directly followed by the Students for Free Culture Summit on Sunday April 22.
On April 15, 2012, the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic (BLIP) hosted their first-ever Legal Hackathon. An all-day event, the Hackathon explorde how technology can improve the law and vice versa.
Hacking the Act: Why Do SOPA and PIPA Matter? Speakers: Lon Jacobs (News Corp), Derek Bambauer (BLS Professor), Robert Levine (Journalist/Author), and Amyt Eckstein (Moses & Singer)
Government 2.0: A Primer on Crowdsourced Policymaking and Fostering Civic Engagement Through Technology.
Speakers: Art Chang (Tipping Point), Sherwin Siy (Public Knowledge), John Bergmayer (Public Knowledge)
Plus Andrew McLaughin (Tumblr), Tim Wu (FTC), Nina Paley (Question Copyright), Tim Hwang (Robot Robot and Hwang), and Jonathan Askin (BLS Professor and director of the BLIP Clinic)
HACK THE ACT
A week-long competition beginning the day of the Hackathon, interested teams will tackle a discreet issue of IP policy and collaboratively propose a new policy reform through online collaboration tool Docracy.
WORKSHOPS
Docracy is challenging participants to use their service to translate a legalese agreement into plain English using their service.
PriView is hacking an assessment standard to help people better understand the privacy policies they deal with every day.
Wikipedia will discuss the role of crowdsourcing in legal research
WhyNot is brainstorming how to create a platform that will crowdsource the next Mayor of NYC.
The Calyx Institute is challenging participants to hack a model privacy policy for Internet service providers.
Creative Rights for Creative Children (CREATE) is hacking a new IP curriculum for students that properly accounts for creative privileges like fair use.
Today, Friday March 15 2013, the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University is holding 15 Year Retrospective of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act – a conference that will look at the past, present and future of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). There is a live webcast (silverlight) and video will be archived.
Mansoor Ahmed is discussing. 
On April 15, 2012, the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic (BLIP) hosted their first-ever Legal Hackathon. An all-day event, the Hackathon explorde how technology can improve the law and vice versa.
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