[dundee] Eben Moglen

[chris wyllie]

Hey Arron, I think there are 3 of us(me and two others) who're interested in
going. How many more of the LUG are thinking about going?

On 21/06/07, William Cameron <bc_dundee at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Not sure who's organizing this, there was some talk at debian day about
> it.  But just for the record I would like to attend.
>
> THanks
> William
>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:52:25 +0100
> > From: gordon at zubenel.freeserve.co.uk
> > To: dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [dundee] Eben Moglen
> > CC:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just got an email saying that the lecture venue has been changed.
> >
> > _Email_
> > Gordon
> >
> > I refer to your recent registration to attend the Scottish Society for
> > Computers & Law Annual Lecture which is taking place on 26 June 2007 and
> > write to advise you that due to the high demand for places at the event,
> > the lecture will now be taking place in Lecture Theatre 175, Old
> > College, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, Edinburgh
> > rather than the Faculty of Advocates Mackenzie Building as originally
> > advertised.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rosie Saunders
> >
> >
> > Arron Finnon wrote:
> > > please find below the information for the Eben Moglen thing in
> > > edinburgh on 26th ;
> > >
> > > THE SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR COMPUTERS AND
> > > LAW ANNUAL LECTURE 2007
> > >
> > >
> > > EBEN MOGLEN
> > >
> > >
> > > The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3
> > >
> > > ***** PRE-BOOKING ESSENTIAL FOR THIS FREE LECTURE *****
> > >
> > > Tuesday 26 June 2007
> > > 6.30 p.m. (Reception from 6.00 p.m.)
> > > at
> > > The Faculty of Advocates, McKenzie Building
> > > (behind Fringe Office) High Street, Edinburgh
> > >
> > > ***** To book reply by email to *****
> > > ***** rosie.saunders at advocates.org.uk> *****
> > > ***** *****
> > >
> > > The Society is privileged to welcome as the 2007 lecturer, Professor
> Eben
> > > Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law
> > > School
> > > and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, New York.
> > >
> > > Professor Moglen's work has inspired a generation of both lawyers and
> IT
> > > professionals, and the Society is pleased to recognise this by
> > > extending the
> > > invitation to the Scottish IT industry.
> > >
> > > Free software is irrevocably transforming the global software
> industry,
> > > challenging not only Microsoft's dominance as a firm, but also the
> > > very idea of
> > > software-as-product that characterised the Microsoft Era. Now, with
> > > the release
> > > of version 3 of the GNU General Public License after eighteen months
> > > of public,
> > > global legislative process, the outlines of the new industrial
> > > structure are
> > > emerging.
> > >
> > > In this lecture, Professor Moglen considers how private legislation is
> > > replacing public law as the organising intellectual structure for
> > > software and
> > > the technology industries, with far-reaching social consequences and
> > > theoretical implications.
> > >
> > > Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free
> > > software
> > > developers. He earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale
> > > University
> > > during what he sometimes calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven.
> > > After law
> > > school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States
> > > District Court
> > > in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States
>
> > > Supreme
> > > Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School and has held visiting
> > > appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the
> > > University of
> > > Virginia since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier
> > > Foundation's
> > > Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic
> society.
> > > Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and
> > > before
> > > the United States Supreme Court.
> > >
> > >
> > > Give us a shout if your going!
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Arron
> > >
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