CfP; Digital Rights Management 2002

[R. A. Hettinga]

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Status:  U
From: Tomas Sander <sander at intertrust.com>
Subject: CfP; Digital Rights Management 2002
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:11:44 -0800

                CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

            DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT 2002

        Strategies for Technological, Legal and
      Political Solutions Regarding Digital Goods -
      Focusing on the European Copyright Directive

                   January 29-30, 2002
                     Berlin, Germany

 Conference web site: http://digital-rights-management.de



Content is King!- the distribution of music, video, and books
over the Internet and other digital means is increasingly
displacing more traditional distribution methods."Digital
Rights Management (DRM)"systems promise new types of business
and usage models for the distribution of content while, at
the same time, protecting the interests of copyright holders.
Legal regulations such as the new European Copyright
Directive strengthen the technical protection of DRM systems
by legal anti-circumvention provisions. This combination of
technology, law, politics, economics, and business creates
numerous conflicts of interests which will have to be taken
into account during the transformation of the Copyright
Directive into national law. The Second DRM Conference
tackles these controversial topics. Speakers from the content
industry, societies for the collection of royalties,
information and communication technology companies, as well as,
data protection commissioners, representatives of cyber-liberty
groups, government officials, politicians, artists, and
scientists will discuss these controversial issues and will
suggest solutions concerning the commercialization of digital
content. Topics include: how to protect the interests of the
content industry and of the users, the implications of DRM
systems on privacy protection and cryptographic research as
well as the introduction of a levy on computer hardware in
Germany and other European countries. Technology companies
will present their DRM systems and scientists will give an
evaluation.

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Keynote speaker:
    Dr. Joerg Reinbothe
        (European Commission/Head of Unit Copyright and
         Neighboring Rights)

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The conference program and registration information,
are available at the web site:

       http://digital-rights-management.de

The deadline for registration is DECEMBER 21, 2001.

We would appreciate if you forward information about
this conference to parties that might be interested.

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The conference is sponsored by the Research Alliance Data
Security NRW and cosponsored by the Association of German
Chambers of Industry and Commerce, the North Rhine-Westphalia
(Germany) Ministry of Schooling, Education, Science and Research,
the European Institute for IT Security (Bochum, Germany) and
the GITS AG - Company for IT-Security (Bochum).

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Organizing Committee:

    Dr. Stefan Bechtold
        (Stanford Law School/University Tuebingen)
    Prof. Dr. Eberhard Becker
        (Research Alliance Data Security NRW)
    Dirk Guennewig
        (EURUBITS, Research Alliance Data Security NRW)
    Dr. Ina Pernice
        (Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce)
    Dr. Tomas Sander
        (InterTrust STAR Lab)

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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'



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