From Andreas Broeckmann Wed Mar 29 14:37:31 2000 From: Andreas Broeckmann (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:37:31 +0200 Subject: [mikrophon] WOS/mikro - Workshop on Cyberlaw, ICANN and Software Patents Message-ID: [Aufgrund der ungeklaerten Raumsituation pausiert die mikro.lounge im April. Stattdessen veranstaltet das Wizards of OS-Team am 10.4. einen Workshop zu Cyberlaw, ICANN und Software-Patenten, zu dem wir herzlich einladen moechten.] Info: http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig Rueckantworten an: Volker Grassmuck . There will be a chat allowing questions and statements from the net to be translated into the workshop. The workshop will be documented on the net. The workshop provides an opportunity for the free software and hacking crowd to meet one of the foremost specialists on cyber law and Internet governance, Lawrence Lessig. Additionally to introducing fundamental concepts like regulation through code, the workshop will address two current issues. One is ICANN, the Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers. The elections of the membership at large to its board of directors is currently under preparation and expected in fall. Jeanette Hofmann will give an introduction to this issue. The other is the decision of the European Commission's DG XV expected in June on whether or not to introduce software patenting in Europe. The introduction here will be given by Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes. The focus of the workshop will be on discussion. LAWRENCE LESSIG http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessig.html Professor at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, specialist in Internet governance and in open law, expert in United States v. Microsoft, currently visiting researcher at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. JEANETTE HOFMANN http://duplox.wz-berlin.de/ Political scientist focussing on Internet Governance in the narrower sense (ICANN as new Internet government) and in a widers sense (technical and political forms of digital ordering of space), working at the Science Center Berlin (WZB). JEAN-PAUL SMETS-SOLANES http://www.smets.com/partners/jp/index.html Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes has been lobbying against software patents in France and the EC, is member of the French Linux Users Group AFUL, and runs freepatents.org. MC: Volker Grassmuck http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck GROUPS mikro http://www.mikro.org Computer Science & Society of Humboldt University http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de Berliner Linux User Group (BeLUG) http://www.belug.org/ CCC Berlin http://www.ccc.de/berlin Individual Network Berlin http://www.in-berlin.de/ SPECIAL THANKS TO Roter Salon http://www.roter-salon.de OVA http://ova.zkm.de and Linux Information Systems AG http://www.linux-ag.com/ MORE INFO AT http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- home http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck/ mikro http://www.mikro.org Wizards of OS http://www.mikro.org/wos =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- mikrophon - Ankuendigungen des mikro e.V. Um zu entsubskribieren schicken Sie eine mail an oder druecken Sie Reply. From Andreas Broeckmann Wed Mar 29 14:37:31 2000 From: Andreas Broeckmann (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:37:31 +0200 Subject: [mikrophon] WOS/mikro - Workshop on Cyberlaw, ICANN and Software Patents Message-ID: [Aufgrund der ungeklaerten Raumsituation pausiert die mikro.lounge im April. Stattdessen veranstaltet das Wizards of OS-Team am 10.4. einen Workshop zu Cyberlaw, ICANN und Software-Patenten, zu dem wir herzlich einladen moechten.] Info: http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig Rueckantworten an: Volker Grassmuck . There will be a chat allowing questions and statements from the net to be translated into the workshop. The workshop will be documented on the net. The workshop provides an opportunity for the free software and hacking crowd to meet one of the foremost specialists on cyber law and Internet governance, Lawrence Lessig. Additionally to introducing fundamental concepts like regulation through code, the workshop will address two current issues. One is ICANN, the Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers. The elections of the membership at large to its board of directors is currently under preparation and expected in fall. Jeanette Hofmann will give an introduction to this issue. The other is the decision of the European Commission's DG XV expected in June on whether or not to introduce software patenting in Europe. The introduction here will be given by Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes. The focus of the workshop will be on discussion. LAWRENCE LESSIG http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessig.html Professor at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, specialist in Internet governance and in open law, expert in United States v. Microsoft, currently visiting researcher at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. JEANETTE HOFMANN http://duplox.wz-berlin.de/ Political scientist focussing on Internet Governance in the narrower sense (ICANN as new Internet government) and in a widers sense (technical and political forms of digital ordering of space), working at the Science Center Berlin (WZB). JEAN-PAUL SMETS-SOLANES http://www.smets.com/partners/jp/index.html Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes has been lobbying against software patents in France and the EC, is member of the French Linux Users Group AFUL, and runs freepatents.org. MC: Volker Grassmuck http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck GROUPS mikro http://www.mikro.org Computer Science & Society of Humboldt University http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de Berliner Linux User Group (BeLUG) http://www.belug.org/ CCC Berlin http://www.ccc.de/berlin Individual Network Berlin http://www.in-berlin.de/ SPECIAL THANKS TO Roter Salon http://www.roter-salon.de OVA http://ova.zkm.de and Linux Information Systems AG http://www.linux-ag.com/ MORE INFO AT http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- home http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck/ mikro http://www.mikro.org Wizards of OS http://www.mikro.org/wos =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- mikrophon - Ankuendigungen des mikro e.V. Um zu entsubskribieren schicken Sie eine mail an oder druecken Sie Reply.