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| DATE | 2012-11-09 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [isoc-ny] NEWS RELEASE: Internet Society and its New York Chapter
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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:25:27 -0500
From: Ruben Safir
To: president-at-isoc-ny.org
Cc: announce-at-isoc-ny.org
Subject: Re: [isoc-ny] NEWS RELEASE: Internet Society and its New York
Chapter to Host Open Forum Discussion on the New Copyright Alert System
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 10:27:34AM -0500, ISOC-NY announcements wrote:
> **Official Press Release - Please forward to all media contacts**
>
> *Internet Society and its New York Chapter to Host Open Forum Discussion on
> the New Copyright Alert System*
>
> INET New York will initiate a discussion on the new Copyright Alert System
> (CAS) aimed at warning Internet users about illegally downloaded content
>
> [Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland ? 09 November 2012] ? The
> Internet Society, in collaboration with its New York Chapter, will host a
> half-day discussion forum on November 15, which will address the Center for
> Copyright Information's (CCI) new Copyright Alert System (CAS). The INET
> New York, held at the New York Law School, will feature two panel
> discussions and will conclude with a wrap-up multi-stakeholder session. The
> event will seek to provide information and exchange ideas regarding the
> operation of CAS, its strengths, weaknesses, and the challenges that lie
> ahead.
>
> The CAS, designed to provide warnings to Internet users who illegally
> download copyrighted content over peer-to-peer file sharing networks, was
> formed as a collaborative effort between U.S. content creators and five
> leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Internet users will receive a
> graduated set of six warnings from their ISP, if the downloading persists.
>
That hugely sucks.
The only stake holder to copyright is the public. The "content
creators" are exploiters of the publics patience.
> The CCI mechanism, based on self-regulation paradigms, has an underlying
> rationale similar to other initiatives and copyright policy responses
> around the world. The Internet Society, bringing together for the first
> time several representatives and members of the CCI along with a broad
> range of industry organizations and public interest advocates, hopes to
> initiate a robust dialogue regarding the effectiveness of this new
> mechanism.
>
> Panel Discussion #1: Overview of the CCI and the CAS
> * Moderator: Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent, CNET
> * Link Hoewing, Vice President, Internet and Technology Policy, Verizon
> * Fernando Laguarda, Vice President, External Affairs and Policy Counselor,
> Time Warner Cable
> * Jill Lesser, Executive Director, Center for Copyright Information
> * Victoria Sheckler, SVP and Deputy General Counsel, Recording Industry
> Association of America
> * Ben Sheffner, Vice President of Legal Affairs, Motion Picture Association
> of America
> * Ronald Wheeler, SVP Content Protection, Fox Entertainment Group
>
> Panel Discussion #2: The Public Interest and Academic Viewpoint on the CCI
> and CAS
> * Moderator: Jeff Jarvis, Associate Professor and Director of the
> Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of
> New York?s Graduate School of Journalism
> * Konstantinos Komaitis, Policy Advisor, Internet Society
> * Molly Land, Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School
> * Aram Sinnreich, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University?s School of
> Communication and Information
> * Gigi Sohn, President and CEO, Public Knowledge
> * David Sohn, General Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology
Your panel is a bunch of pork grabbing lobbiests.
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