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(a)nblug.org. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org