[ale] Consumer Rights Legal Issues presentation [was: Seeking LVM presentation]

[aaron]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 08:32, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> > Jim Popovitch 
> > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:40 -0500, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > > ALE Central has no speaker for February, and later dates are
> > > available  too.

[-- Except we do...  :-) ]
 
> > Since ALE Central meets in the Law Library at Emory it shouldn't
> > be hard to find a knowledgeable professor to explain/discuss contract
> > law as it pertains to in-home broadband usage (consumer rights),
> > DeCSS (trademark/copyright violations), etc.
> >  I volunteer to do the legwork to locate a resource, anyone interested in 
> > hearing what they would have to say?
> 
> You get the speaker, we'll let him/her/it speak.  There's lots of interest.

It was just last October (04) that Doug Bridges gave the ALE Central meeting a 
wonderful overview of I.P. law that covered a lot of territory in fair use 
and trademark. Perhaps he would be willing to follow up on these more 
specific issues?

I will also bring this up with EFGA tonight. These are topic areas they 
regularly address in both legislative and legal domains and they may be able 
to provide some speaker ideas.

As a related heads up, EFGA is in planning for a presentation about Anti-Spam 
suites and legislation by a leading lawyer in the area. Tentative date is 
Feb. 15th, and I should have confirmations and details to post by tomorrow.

peace
aaron