________________________________________________________________________________ Das Wizards of OS-Team (mikro + friends) veranstaltet am kommenden Montag (10.4.) einen Workshop zu Cyberlaw, ICANN und Software-Patenten, zu dem wir Dich herzlich einladen möchten. Es gibt noch einige wenige Plätze für eine Teilnahme vor Ort. Wenn Du teilnehmen wirst, möchte ich Dich um eine Rückantwort bitten. Ein leeres Reply (oder Mail an ) genügt. Wenn Du nicht in den Berliner Roten Salon kommen kannst, laden wir Dich ein, per Video-Stream und Chat dabei zu sein. Die genauen Adressen entnimmst Du bitte in einigen Tagen http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig Wenn Du schließlich jemanden kennst, die interessiert sein könnte, on- oder offline an dem Workshop teilzunehmen, schicke ihr bitte diese Einladung. Vielen Dank und freundliche Grüße Volker Grassmuck Workshop on Cyberlaw, ICANN and Software Patents with Lawrence Lessig, Jeanette Hofmann and Daniel Riek Monday, April 10th 2000, 4 - 9 pm Roter Salon der Volksbuehne, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin -- in English -- sharing of expenses 5 DM Because the number of participants is restricted, please send a reply to this mail (mailto:vgrass@rz.hu-berlin.de, subject: workshop), so we know you will be coming. If you like, add a few words on who you are, and why you want to participate. The workshop will be streamed live in RealVideo by OVA . There will be a chat allowing questions and statements from the net to be translated into the workshop. The workshop will be documented on the net. The workshop provides an opportunity for the free software and hacking crowd to meet one of the foremost specialists on cyber law and Internet governance, Lawrence Lessig. Additionally to introducing fundamental concepts like regulation through code, the workshop will address two current issues. One is ICANN, the Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers. The elections of the membership at large to its board of directors is currently under preparation and expected in fall. Jeanette Hofmann will give an introduction to this issue. The other is the decision of the European Commission's DG XV expected in June on whether or not to introduce software patenting in Europe. The introduction here will be given by Daniel Riek. The focus of the workshop will be on discussion. I would like to draw your attention to two texts that we were permitted to pre-publish especially for this workshop: Jeanette Hofmann, Und wer regiert das Internet? - Regimewechsel im Cyberspace http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig/JH_ICANN_Telejahrbuch.html Daniel Riek, Softwarepatente gefaehrden Fortschritt durch Wettbewerb http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig/riek_thesen_ws-pat.html Topical texts by Lawrence Lessig can be found on his homepage. LAWRENCE LESSIG http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessig.html Professor at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, specialist in Internet governance and in open law, expert in United States v. Microsoft, currently visiting researcher at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. JEANETTE HOFMANN http://duplox.wz-berlin.de/ Political scientist focussing on Internet Governance in the narrower sense (ICANN as new Internet government) and in a widers sense (technical and political forms of digital ordering of space), working at the Science Center Berlin (WZB). DANIEL RIEK Co-founder and board member of ID-PRO AG, member of the managing board of Linux Verband LIVE. MC: Volker Grassmuck http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck GROUPS mikro http://www.mikro.org Computer Science & Society of Humboldt University http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de Berliner Linux User Group (BeLUG) http://www.belug.org/ CCC Berlin http://www.ccc.de/berlin Individual Network Berlin http://www.in-berlin.de/ SPECIAL THANKS TO Roter Salon http://www.roter-salon.de OVA http://ova.zkm.de Linux Information Systems AG http://www.linux-ag.com/ MORE INFO AT http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/lessig =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- home http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck/ mikro http://www.mikro.org Wizards of OS http://www.mikro.org/wos =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 2000 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org