[NYCInfoLaw] This Week with nycinfolaw.org

[Joshua L. Simmons]

Welcome to This Week with nycinfolaw.org.  As part of this new project, we
will be sending a weekly e-mail of happenings in information law.  If you
have a calendar item you think we should add, please contact
calendar at nycinfolaw.org.  For general comments, e-mail
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*nycinfolaw.org is a joint project designed to bring together IP, tech,
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City law schools.  View the calendar online at
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*Reading Group @ Columbia*
*November 18, 2008 @ 6:30pm
Columbia University, Jerome Green Hall, 435 West 116th St., Room TBA

*The topic for this reading group will be the Google Books settlement.
Readings and a room number will be e-mailed early next week.

*Information Law Events                      *

*Kernochan Center IP Lunch Speaker Series: Copyright's Paradox*
*November 17, 2008 @ 12:15pm
Columbia Law School, Jerome Green Hall, 435 West 116th St., Room 107*

The Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts and the Horace S. Manges
Lecture and Conference Fund invites you to the Kernochan Center IP Lunch
Speaker Series. Please join us for a discussion with Neil Netanel, Professor
of Law at UCLA and author of "Copyright's Paradox" (Oxford 2008) who will
discuss the tension between copyright and free speech. We look forward to
seeing you there. Pizza will be served.

Contact:  For further information regarding this event, please contact
Philippa Loengard by sending email to loengard at law.columbia.edu or by
calling 854-9869.
*Lawrence Lessig: Art and Ideas in the Internet Age
**November 17, 2008 @ 8:15pm
92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, Buttenwieser Hall*

Lawrence Lessig, the reigning authority on intellectual property in the
Internet age, spotlights copyright laws and the newest culture war affecting
users of new technologies. In his latest book, *Remix*, Lessig outlines
plans for a "read-write culture," which allows its users to create art as
readily as they consume it. Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and
founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. He is the author of
*Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity*, *The Future of Ideas:
The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World* and *Code and Other Laws of
Cyberspace*, and a columnist at *Wired*.

For more information:
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-LC5CA01&blog=lessig
50% off with student ID at the box office on the night of.

*Aaron Williamson on Open Source
November 18, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
Brooklyn Law School, Room 501*

*Events of Interest                                 *

*     *For more information on any of these events, please visit
nycinfolaw.org and view our calendar.
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**10th New York City Wikipedia Meetup*
*November 16, 2008 @ 2:30pm*
*Columbia University, 1402 Pupin Hall*

*Kraft Program Series - The Reach of Science: Ethical Questions in Science
and Medicine
November 18, 2008 @ 6:30pm
Columbia University, Low Memorial Library, Rotunda*

*Computers and Society Event: Democracy, Civic Action, and Politics in a
Networked World
November 19, 2008 @ 2:30pm
NYU, Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street, Room 109*
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