Politics of Code
Lawrence Lessig, Diane Cabell and Ian Brown will be among the speakers at Politics of Code: Shaping the Future of the Next Internet, organised by the Oxford Internet Institute, taking place on 6 February.

Lessig - Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the School's Center for Internet and Society - has recently ended up the loser in a US Supreme Court case addressing the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The legislation gives copyright owners an extended term of protection under US law, which will be of particular benefit to corporate copyright holders such as Disney. Diane Cabell is associate director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and Ian Brown is director of the UK Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), which campaigns on issues such as privacy, e-democracy and data retention.

Date: Thursday 6 February 2003
Further information: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events.shtml