[Air-l] Fwd: Announcement: 3rd Digital Rights Management Conference 2005

[Dan L Burk]

Of possible interest.  DLB

On 21 Oct 2004, Stefan Bechtold wrote:
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>                      CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
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>                3rd DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 2005
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>                      13th-14th January 2005
>                        Berlin, Germany
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> Conference web site: http://digital-rights-management.org
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> Keynote speaker:
>       Prof. Hal Varian
>       University of California at Berkeley
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> The conference program and registration information
> are available at the web site:
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>          http://digital-rights-management.org
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> The deadline for registration is 20th December 2004.
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> Digital Rights Management promises novel business models
> for the distribution of and access to all kinds of digital
> content - from music and movies to text and software -
> while ensuring that the interests of rights holders are
> protected. Over the last year, DRM systems have been
> introduced in the U.S. as well as in various European
> markets with great success. Increasingly, open standards-based
> DRM systems play a vital role in the mobile sector. In autumn
> 2003, the German Parliament implemented the European Copyright
> Directive of 2001, establishing the legal framework for
> DRM systems. Further reforms of European and German
> copyright law are imminent.
> 
> Thus, the time is ripe for the 3rd Digital Rights Management
> Conference 2005. This conference is the third in a series of
> leading DRM conferences in Europe. It will summarise the
> present debate about DRM on a national and international
> level. It will also create an interdisciplinary forum to
> discuss economic, business, legal, technical and scientific
> questions as well as policy issues surrounding DRM and the
> future of digital content. Representatives of the media and
> IT industries, governments, user associations, libraries,
> collecting societies, as well as artists, attorneys,
> scientists, privacy and consumer protection advocates from
> Germany, other European countries and the U.S. will discuss
> controversial issues and proposed solutions in the areas of
> Digital Rights Management, Trusted Computing and alternative
> compensation systems.
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> Programme Committee:
> Dr. Stefan Bechtold, Universitaet Tuebingen/Stanford University
> Prof. Dr. Eberhard Becker, Universitaet Dortmund
> Dr. Willms Buhse, CoreMedia AG, Germany
> Dirk Guennewig M.A. Pol.Wiss., Universitaet Dortmund
> Dipl.-Inf. Niels Rump, Rightscom Ltd., Germany
> Prof. Pamela Samuelson, University of California at Berkeley
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> The conference is organised by the
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> Ministry of Science and Research of the State
>        Northrhine Westfalia, Germany;
> University of Dortmund, Germany;
> Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of
>        California at Berkeley, USA;
> Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce,
>        Germany;
> Alcatel SEL Foundation/Competence Center Information
>        Society, Germany
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> Cooperation Partners:
> CoreMedia AG, Germany
> Rightscom Ltd., UK
> Secure.it nrw, Germany
> Berlecon Research GmbH, Germany
> eurobits, Germany
> Computer und Recht, Germany
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> We would appreciate it if you could forward this information
> to interested parties.
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> #  Stefan Bechtold    stef at n-bechtold.com   Tuebingen, Germany  #
> #           http://www.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/bechtold           #
> #          http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/bechtold          #
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> 
Dan L. Burk
Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor
University of Minnesota Law School
229 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
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