EFFector Vol. 14, No. 2 Feb. 9, 2001 editor@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424
IN THE 162nd ISSUE OF EFFECTOR (now with over 26,300 subscribers!):
* BayFF Meeting Examines the Future of the Net with Larry Lessig,
Next Week
* Staffing Changes at EFF: Activist Will Doherty Hired
* EFF Awarded Grant by Center for the Public Domain (ex- Red Hat
Center)
* Administrivia
For more information on EFF activities & alerts: http://www.eff.org
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BayFF Meeting Examines the Future of the Net with Larry Lessig, Next Week
Media Advisory
Feb. 12, 2001 BayFF Hosts Lawrence Lessig on "Architecting Innovation"
Come Check It Out
Join EFF with renowned Internet legal expert Lawrence Lessig in a
discussion about architecting innovation
WHO: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lawrence Lessig. Music by UKUSA
WHAT: "BayFF" centers on Architecture and Innovation on the Web
WHEN: Monday, February 12th, 2000, at 7pm PT
WHERE: Stanford Law School, room 290
Crown Quadrangle
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
(650)725-2565
This event is free and open to the general public. Food and beverages
will be served.
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School. He
was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 1991 to
1997, he was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He
graduated from Yale Law School in 1989, and then clerked for Judge
Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice
Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law,
contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace.
His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, is published by Basic
Books. In 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in
Berlin. Lessig will discuss the changing architecture of the Internet
and how these changes, both legal and technical, will effect the
environment for innovation.
BayFF is first and foremost a real-space event, meant to serve as an
educational forum for the local community, as well as a catalyst for
like-minded activists. Locals, please show your support in person!
BayFF fans and followers that are scattered across the country and
around the world can access this month's BayFF WebCast at:
http://www.eclipsnow.com
February's BayFF will be Webcast by Eclipsnow! which has kindly
donated its services to EFF. Eclipsnow! has been Webcasting corporate
events, public affairs music and entertainment since 1996. It requires
Windows Media Player as far as we know (though RealPlayer 8 might also
work.)
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties
organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded
in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and
government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the
information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and
maintains one of the most-linked-to Web sites in the world:
http://www.eff.org
Continuing over 10 years of defending civil liberties online, EFF
presents a series of regular meetings to address important issues
where technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled "BayFF"
Bay-area Friends of Freedom), kicked off on July 10, 2000, and will
continue on a monthly basis.
For more information, see:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation:
http://www.eff.org
Prof. Lawrence Lessig's home page:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessig.html
Contact:
Katina Bishop
Director of Education & Offline Activism
Electronic Frontier Foundation
+1 415 436 9333 x101
katina@eff.org
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Staffing Changes at EFF: Activist Will Doherty Hired
Electronic Frontier Foundation Press Release -- Feb. 8, 2001
Online Activist Will Doherty Joins EFF Staff
Senior Industry Professional to Spearhead Electronic Frontier Foundation's
Grassroots Activism
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Will Doherty - EFF Online Activist
+1 415 436 9333
wild@eff.org
Shari Steele - EFF Executive Director
+1 415 436 9333
ssteele@eff.org
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 8, 2001 - The Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) today announced the hire of Will Doherty as the
organization's Online Activist, spearheading online outreach and
grassroots organizing on EFF's pioneering work to protect Internet
free speech and privacy rights. Doherty will cultivate strategic
partnerships and coordinate educational and advocacy campaigns online.
In addition, Doherty will develop and coordinate relationships with
media covering the Internet policy beat.
"We are so excited to have Will join our team," exclaimed EFF's
Executive Director Shari Steele. "Will brings to EFF more than 20
years of experience as an online activist and computing consultant.
His work within the online civil liberties community is well known and
well-respected. We're all looking forward to working with Will as he
communicates our work to the online world."
"As Internet technology has challenged our traditional notions of
civil liberties, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has stepped up to
protect the rights of all people who use the Internet," said Doherty.
"I am proud to join such an important organization."
Doherty also currently serves as Founder and Executive Director of the
Online Policy Group, dedicated to "one Internet with equal access for
all." Doherty has designed and implemented Internet strategies and
websites for many nonprofit community and advocacy organizations.
Prior to founding the Online Policy Group, Doherty served as the
Director of Online Community Development at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation (GLAAD), where he focused on the online rights of
the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. He managed
GLAAD's Digital Media Resource Center in San Francisco, cultivating
strategic partnerships in Silicon Valley and beyond.
Doherty has been part of the online community for a long time. In the
early 1980s, Doherty worked on the ARPANET, precursor of the Internet.
Doherty served as the Globalization Operations Manager at Sybase,
Inc., and as a Localization Program Manager and a Technical Writer for
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Doherty holds an MBA from Golden Gate
University and a BS in Computer Science and Writing from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
EFF's long-time online activist & tech Stanton McCandlish remains with
the organization, and is now devoted full-time to webmastering. Of
Doherty he said, "I can't think of anyone more qualified to be our
activist & press manager than Will, and I'm delighted he's on board
with us."
About EFF:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties
organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded
in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and
government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the
information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and
maintains one of the most linked-to Web sites in the world:
http://www.eff.org
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EFF Awarded Grant by Center for the Public Domain (ex- Red Hat Center)
Center for the Public Domain Press Release -- Feb. 9, 2001
Center for the Public Domain Funds Projects Worldwide
to Address Intellectual Property Issues, Open Access and the Fair Exchange
of Information
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Tawnya Louder-Reynolds
Center for the Public Domain
+1 919 549 8388
tawnya@centerpd.org
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA -- The Center for the Public Domain (formerly
Red Hat Center) today announced a series of grants to organizations
worldwide that will provide information to raise the public's
knowledge of open access and the fair exchange of information from
medicine to the Internet to software, as well as study the
repercussions of current intellectual property (IP) treaties and
legislation. The grant recipients are known for their success in
building alliances, education, research and reporting, and their IP
advocacy efforts.
The grantees are:
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (California)
$35,000
The mission of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology is to foster
beneficial and ethical advancement of technology by promoting the
understanding and guiding the development of intellectual property and
related fields of law and policy as they intersect with business,
science and technology. Attorney Fred von Lohmann is conducting
intellectual property law research.
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt
Consumer Project on Technology (CPT) (District of Columbia)
$30,000
Established by Ralph Nader, CPT focuses on intellectual property
rights and health care, electronic commerce and competition policy. As
the primary global advocate for compulsory licensing of patents of
essential medicines, CPT responds to trade policies and practices on
intellectual property influencing the price of medicines in poor and
developing countries. CPT is also addressing the "Hague Treaty on
Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters"
and its consequences for e-commerce. http://www.cptech.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (California)
$17,500
A leading organization focused on representing the rights of
individuals worldwide, EFF works in the public interest to protect
fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of
expression in the arena of computers and the Internet. EFF works to
preserve free expression by upholding rights to digital free
expression from political, legal and technical threats, defining
digital privacy by empowering people to maintain their privacy and
control their digital identity and ensuring systems are designed to
respect people's rights, such as free speech, privacy and fair use.
http://www.eff.org
Free Software Foundation (FSF) (Massachusetts)
$17,500
The Free Software Foundation is dedicated to eliminating restrictions
on copying, redistribution, understanding, and modification of
computer programs by promoting the development and use of free
software in all areas of computing. http://www.fsf.org
Collaborative Ownership in a Digital Economy (CODE) (England)
$10,000
A partnership between Academic Europaea and the Arts Council of
Cambridge, England, CODE (an April 2001 meeting) will examine issues
such as community and copyright, recovering the 'collective'
independent networks of research and collaboration, the need for
intellectual property systems to evolve in line with changing
technologies, the shifts in conventional approaches to learning and
research enabled by collaborative technologies and the emergence of
open code and open content applications as key drivers of the
knowledge economy. http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) (District of Columbia.)
$10,000
EPIC is a public research center established to focus public attention
on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, First
Amendment rights, and constitutional values. As part of a wide range
of landmark reports on critical issues affecting the future of the
Internet, EPIC will publish "Surfer Beware IV," a report that examines
the extent to which proprietary standards are threatening the privacy,
freedom of expression, and the open architecture of the Internet. For
other Surfer Beware reports, see http://www.epic.org
Federation for a Free Informational Infrastructure (FFII) (Germany)
$10,000
A public-interest association designed to promote free competition in
the software field and to fund public interest. FFII is conducting
software patent research. http://www.ffii.org
About the Center for the Public Domain (the Center):
Founded in January 2000, the Center for the Public Domain has awarded
over $4.8 million in grants to projects worldwide, supporting efforts
to raise public awareness on intellectual property issues and access
to information. The Center is a nonprofit foundation that strives to
raise awareness, support research and fund educational programs,
promote collaboration and build partnerships that strengthen the
public community of shared information, culture, and ideas. Its goals
are to increase public awareness of the value of growing the public
domain and its benefit to society, and to support advocacy that
promotes collaboration, open access, and the fair exchange of
information.
The Mission of the Center for the Public Domain is to support the
growth of a healthy and robust public domain by establishing programs,
grants, and partnerships in the areas of academic research, medicine,
law, education, media, technology, and the arts.
For more information on the Center for the Public Domain, see
http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org or for information on Center
grants, see
http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org/grantmaking/support.html .
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