[tlug] [announcement-2] "Defending the Creative Commons"

[Mauro Sauco <mauro@example.com>]

               Temple University Law School, Program in Japan


                                   and the


                           Tokyo Linux Users Group


                                   Present


                      "Defending the Creative Commons"

                                  A Talk by

                               Lawrence Lessig



                          December 12, 2002, 19:00


                  At Temple University Japan, Room 212/213

            (Admission free, RSVPs appreciated but not required.)

Hollywood, Microsoft and John Ashcroft. ATT, NTT and the Cable
Companies.  And these are only some of the people are trying to control
your computer and the Internet by taking away your 'right to tinker.'  Hear
Lawrence Lessig talk about the activism necessary to defend the Create
Commons.

A  tireless  advocate  for  Open  Source,  and  against  the  extension   of
copyright, Professor Lessig is perhaps most widely  known  for  his  1997  /
1998 involvement in the case of Department of Justice v. Microsoft, and  his
more recent advocacy in the Supreme  Court  limitation  of  copyright  case,
Eldred v. Ashcroft.

Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the  Stanford  Center
for Internet and Society, Lawrence Lessig is also the  author  of  Code  and
Other Laws of Cyberspace and The Future of Ideas.


To RSVP or for more information,  please  contact  the  organizers,  Douglas
Steele at Hunter Hale International douglas@example.com, Ayami  Kunieda
at the Temple University Law School, Program in Japan, law@example.com, Mauro 
Sauco at Tokyo Linux Users Group  mauro@example.com or  on 03-5441-9841.