Spring 2005 Symposium – The Unintended Consequences of Legislating Technology: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act – N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation & Public Policy

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Time and Location
12:30-5:30 p.m.
New York University School of Law
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge

Symposium	Schedule
12:30 p.m.	REGISTRATION Greenberg Lounge
1:00 p.m.	GREETING AND INTRODUCTION CLAYTON GILLETTE Vice Dean Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law New York University School of Law PAUL M. KEYERLEBER Senior Symposium Editor NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy
1:15 p.m.	INTRODUCING THE DMCA AND FRAMING THE ISSUES ALISON M. NORRIS Staff Editor NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy
1:45 p.m.	PANEL I: CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL FOCUS: THE DMCA AND FREE MARKET COMPETITION This panel will expound and examine the effects and implications of the DMCA with respect to market competition, while offering proposals for change. Audience question and answer session will follow. Moderator and Commentator: NIVA ELKIN-KOREN Global Visiting Professor of Law New York University School of Law Professor of Law University of Haifa School of Law BARBARA FOX Senior Software Architect, Cryptography, and Digital Rights Management (retired) Microsoft Corporation BILL ROSENBLATT Founder GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies Managing Editor DRM Watch
3:15 p.m.	BREAK
3:30 p.m.	PANEL II: FREEDOM TO USE, EXPLORE, AND INNOVATE: THE DMCA, FAIR USE, AND FREE EXPRESSION This panel will discuss the DMCA’s impact on fair use and free expression, explore practical ways to preserve fair use and free expression, and consider how legal rules ought to direct behavior in the realm of copyright. Audience question and answer session will follow. Moderator and Commentator: DIANE L. ZIMMERMAN Samuel Tilden Professor of Law New York University School of Law ROBERT CLARIDA Partner Cowan, Liebowitz, & Latman P.C., New York City Chairman of the Copyright Committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York State Bar Association, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association BETH NOVECK Associate Professor of Law Director, Institute for Information Law and Policy Director, Democracy Design Workshop New York Law School CHARLES SIMS Partner Proskauer Rose LLP, New York City
5:30 p.m.	CLOSING REMARKS HEATHER H. PIERCE Editor-in-Chief NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

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