Hi Tim, Can't manage the call due to faculty training. Will anyone be recording this session?
Thanks, Alice Bedard-Voorhees -----Original Message----- >From: Timothy Karr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Feb 9, 2006 12:17 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [DDN] Join Lessig, Cooper, Chester and Scott in a Discussion of >Net Freedom > > > > >Greetings DDN crew, > >I'm writing to invite you to join bloggers from across the country for a >phone conference on the future of the Internet. Featured speakers will >include Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, Mark Cooper of Consumer >Federation of America, Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy and >Ben Scott of Free Press. > >WHEN: Friday, Feb. 10 -- 12:30 p.m. EST / 9:30 a.m. PST >CALL: 1-800-370-0906 >CODE: 7028789 > >Until now, the Internet has been governed by the principle of "network >neutrality <http://www.freepress.net/netfreedom> ," which allows independent >voices to try out new ideas without having to pay extra or ask for >permission. > >But net neutrality is in danger. Major communications companies are planning >to discriminate against the online content and services that they don't yet >control. If successful, their scheme would forever alter the free flow of >information and ideas in the blogosphere. > >Congress is now debating the future of the Internet. Unless bloggers and >their readers get involved, our elected representatives could allow the >Internet to become a "walled garden" and shift the digital revolution into >reverse > >Lessig, Cooper, Chester and Scott will give brief presentations on the >threat to the Internet and then take comments and questions from you and >other bloggers. > >For more information, please visit www.NetFreedomNow.org or >www.freepress.net/netfreedom <http://wwwfreepress.net/netfreedom> > >I hope you'll join in the conversation on Friday. > >Sincerely, > >Timothy Karr >Campaign Director >Free Press >www.freepress.net > >P.S. Here's some more information about the speakers: > >Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of >the school's Center for Internet and Society. Professor Lessig represented >Web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. >Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, >and chairs the Creative Commons project (www.creativecommons.org). He has >won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, >and was named one of Scientific American's "Top 50 Visionaries" for arguing >"against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and >discourse online." Professor Lessig is the author of Free Culture (2004), >The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). > >Mark Cooper is director of research at the Consumer Federation of America >(www.consumerfed.org/) where he has responsibility for analysis and advocacy >in the areas of telecommunications, media, digital rights, economic and >energy policy. He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases for public >interest clients including Attorneys General, People's Counsels, and citizen >interveners before state and federal agencies, courts and legislators in >almost four dozen jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada. He is the author of >Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age (Center for >Internet & Society, Stanford University, 2003), Cable Mergers and Monopolies >(Electronic download) (Economic Policy institute, 2002, paper) and Equity >and Energy (Westview, 1983). > >Jeff Chester is executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy >(www.democraticmedia.org), a nonprofit organization devoted to ensuring that >the digital media serve the public interest. A former journalist and >filmmaker, his work has appeared in many publications on radio and on TV. He >has played a leading role in debates about media policy in numerous forms >for upward of two decades and was named by Newsweek as one of the Internet's >50 most influential people. His article on "The End of the Internet?" was >recently published by The Nation. > >Ben Scott is policy director of Free Press (www.freepress.net). He heads up >the Washington, D.C. office, dedicated to monitoring and analyzing media >policymaking to increase public awareness and participation. Before joining >Free Press, he worked as a legislative fellow handling telecommunications >policy for Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the U.S. House of Representatives. >He is also in the final stages of his doctoral degree in communications from >the University of Illinois. He is the co-editor of two books, Our Unfree >Press (New Press, 2004) and The Future of Media (Seven Stories, 2005). > > > > > _____ > > > > > >= = = = = >Timothy Karr >Campaign Director >Free Press > <http://www.freepress.net/> www.freepress.net >1.201.533.8838 > >Join a daily discussion on the state of our digital union at MediaCitizen: > <http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/> http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE >in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
