[dundee] Eben Moglen

[Arron Finnon]

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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