EFFI ALERT 23.5.2004
Lessig Helsingissä huomenna 17:30
Hei,
ohessa kutsu Lessigin huomiseen luentoon. Lisäksi muistutuksena, että ensi
lauantaina on siis EFFI:n kevätkokous. Tilaisuuden alussa Ilkka Rahnasto
alustaa Nokian patenttipolitiikasta (http://www2.effi.org/yhdistys/kokoukset/kokouskutsu-2004-kevat.html)
Ville Oksanen
PJ, EFFI
KUTSU
Avoin luento ja keskustelutilaisuus
Professor Lawrence Lessig Helsingissä
“The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity”
Maanantaina 24.5. klo 17.30
Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 b
Tervetuloa avoimeen keskustelutilaisuuteen Professori Lawrence Lessigin
kanssa Helsingissä maantantaina 24.5. klo 17.30 Korjaamolla, Töölönkatu 51b.
Professori Lessig on yksi maailman tunnetuimpia ajattelijoita, kirjoittajia ja
luennoitsijoita digitaalisen kulttuurin, median ja tekijänoikeuksien
kehityksestä. Nyt suomalaisella yleisöllä on ainutlaatuinen mahdollisuus kuulla
ja haastaa kansainvälistä vaikuttajaa. Teemana on “The Future of Copyright,
Culture and Creativity.”
Tilaisuuden järjestää Aula. Aula on avoin verkosto, joka tukee ajatusten
vaihtoa poikki rajojen.
Tätä kutsua voi lähettää sähköisesti eteenpäin kaikille kiinnostuneille.
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INVITATION
You are invited to an open discussion with Professor Lawrence Lessig on
Monday 24.5. at 17.30 at Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 b in Helsinki. Professor
Lessig will speak on “The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity” followed
by a discussion with the audience. The event will be held in English and is
free and open to the public.
The event is organized by Aula. Aula is an open network that promotes the
exchange of ideas across boundaries.
Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested in
attending.
About the speaker
Lawrence Lessig (http://www.lessig.org/) is a Professor of Law
at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and
Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of
Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin, and a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked
for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice
Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
More recently, Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in
the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono
Copyright Term Extension Act. Lessig was named one of Scientific American’s Top
50 Visionaries, for arguing “against interpretations of copyright that could
stifle innovation and discourse online.”
Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, law and high
technology, Internet regulation, comparative constitutional law, and the law of
cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, was published by
Basic Books, and The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected
World, is available from Random House. His most recent book, Free Culture: How
Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control
Creativity, is now available online at http://www.free-culture.cc and from
Penguin Press.
Professor Lessig chairs the Creative Commons project (http://creativecommons.org/faq).
Professor Lessig is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a
board member of the Center for the Public Domain, and a Commission Member of
the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community at the
University of Pennsylvania. Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS
in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from
Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.