[NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting -- Chilling Effects of Intellectual Property Laws

[Kyle Rankin]

This meeting is at our regular time and place.  Everybody is welcome.

What:   NBLUG General Meeting
Topic:  Chilling Effects of Intellectual Property laws
Who:    Wendy Seltzer from EFF
When:   November 11th, 2003 @ 7:30PM
Where:  O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA.
Details:

   Copyright, licensing, and technological protection measures in the DMCA
   throw up lots of hurdles to open source development of interoperable
   software. Wendy Seltzer, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier
   Foundation, will talk about the legal landscape for reverse engineers --
   and what you can do to help EFF fight to fix the law.

   Wendy Seltzer is a Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
   specializing in intellectual property and free speech issues. As a Fellow
   with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and
   leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to
   understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. Prior to
   joining EFF, Wendy taught Internet Law as an Adjunct Professor at St.
   John's University School of Law and practiced intellectual property and
   technology litigation with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York.
   Wendy speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the
   public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from
   Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to
   program (Perl).

   http://www.eff.org
   http://www.chillingeffects.org

If you (or somebody you know) might be interested in speaking to a friendly
group of 25-45 people about something related to Linux or Open Source,
please contact speakers at nblug.org.

-- 
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users Group
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