[NYCInfoLaw] Fwd: Copyright's Paradox Event Tomorrow - Vh 202, 12-2pm

[William M. Frank]

I got sent this through the NYU IPELS list. Figured I'd pass it along.

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> From: Nishanth Venkatesh Chari <nvc210 at nyu.edu>
> Date: November 17, 2008 8:01:13 PM EST
> To: IPELS Announcement <ipels-announce at lists.nyu.edu>
> Subject: Copyright's Paradox Event Tomorrow - Vh 202, 12-2pm
> Reply-To: Nishanth Venkatesh Chari <nvc210 at nyu.edu>
>
> The fifth ITS Colloquium of the fall semester will take place on:
>
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
> Time: 12:00-2:00pm
> Location: Room 202, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South
> Topic: Copyright’s Paradox - Exploring the Tensions between  
> Copyright Law and Free Speech
> Speaker: Professor Neil W. Netanel, UCLA School of Law, http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=637
>
> Abstract: Neil Netanel will discuss his new book, Copyright’s  
> Paradox, which explores the tensions between copyright law and free  
> speech. The United States Supreme Court famously labeled copyright  
> “the engine of free expression” because it provides a vital economic  
> incentive for much of the literature, commentary, music, art, and  
> film that makes up our public discourse.  Netanel argues that  
> copyright can still serve this vital function in the digital age.  
> Yet today’s greatly expanded copyright law often does the opposite- 
> it is used to quash news reporting, political commentary, church  
> dissent, historical scholarship, cultural critique, artistic  
> expression, and new media platforms for greater expressive  
> diversity. Netanel provides concrete illustrations of how copyright  
> often prevents speakers from effectively conveying their message,  
> tracing this conflict across both traditional and digital media and  
> considering current controversies such as the YouTube and MySpace  
> copyright
> !
> infringement cases, Hip-hop music and digital sampling, and the  
> Google Book Search litigation. The author juxtaposes the dramatic  
> expansion of copyright holders’ proprietary control against the  
> individual’s newly found ability to digitally cut, paste, edit,  
> remix, and distribute sound recordings, movies, TV programs,  
> graphics, and texts the world over. He tests whether, in light of  
> these developments and others, copyright still serves as a vital  
> engine of free expression and he assesses how copyright does--and  
> does not--burden speech. Taking First Amendment values as his  
> lodestar, Netanel argues that copyright should be limited to how it  
> can best promote robust debate and expressive diversity, and he  
> presents a blueprint for how that can be accomplished.
>
> Neil Netanel is a Professor of Law at the University of California  
> at Los Angeles School of Law. He teaches and writes extensively in  
> the areas of copyright, international intellectual property, and  
> media and telecommunications. His recent and forthcoming books  
> include Copyright’s Paradox (Oxford University Press, 2008); The  
> Development Agenda: Global Intellectual Property and Developing  
> Countries (Neil Weinstock Netanel ed., Oxford University Press,  
> forthcoming 2008); and From Maimonides to Microsoft; The Jewish Law  
> of Copyright Since the Birth of Print (Oxford University Press,  
> forthcoming 2010) (with David Nimmer).
>
> Please RSVP to Nicole Arzt at arztn at juris.law.nyu.edu if you wish to  
> attend.
>
>
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