USC Free Culture invites you to an important discussion on the impact of copyright laws and the University:
Over the last decade, copyright emerged as weapon for the Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) to shut down Napster, alienate a whole generation of music lovers, and most recently, force universities to police their own students. Our distinguished panel will consider the following questions:
How should universities respond?
How do film schools balance students’ desire to mash-up/remix films with the institutional desire to protect copyright?
How is the growing media reform movement addressing these changes?
* Moderator: Geoff Cowan, Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication
* Participants:
o David A. Abel - President, CEO, ABL, Inc. Publisher/Managing Editor The Planning Report and Metro Investment Report. Chairman, New Schools/ Better Neighborhoods
o Larry Gross - Director, USC Annenberg School of Communication
o Michael Renov - Associate Dean, USC School of Cinematic Arts and Professor of Critical Studies
o Jen Urban - Director, USC Intellectual Property Clinic and Clinical Associate Professor, USC Gould School of Law)
*open to the public*
Official Website: http://imlportfolio.usc.edu/freeculture/
Added by revolute on March 20, 2007