Evolving Media - JOLT Annual Symposium This Weekend

On March 19th and 20th, Harvard Law School's Journal of Law and Technology hosts Evolving Media: Emerging Distribution Technologies, and the Legal Response, at Langdell Hall. Events include a debate, two panels (moderated by Professor Jerry Kang and Berkman Executive Director John Palfrey, respectively), and a keynote by Thomas Hazlett. Other speakers include future Berkman Fellow David Weinberger and Shari Steele of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. For schedule and registration information (the event is free and open to the public), please see the event site or click "Read more..." below for a schedule.

Debate on New Media Forums and the First Amendment
Friday, 19 March 2004, 4:00 PM
Langdell North

Bruce Taylor (USDOJ's top obscenity lawyer) will debate Shari Steele
(Exec. Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation). Moderated by KSG Professor
Frederick Schauer.

Panels AND Lunchtime Keynote Address 
Saturday, 20 March 2004, 10:00 AM
Langdell North

Morning Panel on "Media Ownership in the Technological Age." Panelists
will be Ben Compaine (MIT), Mark Cooper (Stanford Ctr. for Internet and
Society), Cheryl Leanza (Media Access Project), Adam Clayton Powell III
(journalist), David Oxenford (Shaw Pittman). Moderated by HLS Visiting Professor Jerry
Kang. 

Keynote on "Ownership Limits in the Vast Wasteland" will be delivered
during a free lunch by R. Tom Hazlett(Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Inst. for
Policy Research, columnist for the Financial Times and former
 FCC Chief Economist). You must register online at
http://jolt.law.harvard.edu for this free event. 

Afternoon Panel on "Innovation in Media Distribution and Its Impact on 
Content, Control, and Access." Panelists will be Peggy Miles (President,
Intervox), Mathew Zinn (TiVo), Kevin Kawamoto (U. of Wash.), David
Weinberger (author, commentator and blogger), Mark Lloyd (Civil Rights
Telecommunications Forum). Moderated by the Berkman Center's John Palfrey.