2005-03-23

Harvard Digital Media Conference

April 8, 2005

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Journal of Law & Technology,and the Committee for Sports & Entertainment Law, all of Harvard Law School, are hosting Signal or Noise 2k5: Creative Revolution? on April 8,2005, on the Harvard campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference website can be found here.

The conference offers an exciting mix of performances, demonstrations and discussions examining how digital technologies are enabling new forms ofcreativity by a broader group of people. Cultural, business, legal and ethical implications of new genres and new forms of authorship will all becovered along with an artist's interests and rights in downstream uses of original creations.

Scheduled conference participants include New York Times bestselling author Matthew Pearl, copyright scholar Terry Fisher, fanfic author Naomi Novik, David Dixon of Beatallica, innovative musician Dan the Automator, Paul Marino of machinima.org, and Wendy Seltzer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Signal or Noise 2K5 is open to the public but pre-registration is needed: register here.

For more information about the conference's location, schedule and participants, please visit cyber.law.harvard.edu/sn/schedule.

[via Derek Slater]