[Scottish] Eben Moglen public lecture, Edinburgh 26th June

[Dan Shearer]

This is Eben Moglen, lawyer behind both the GPL3 and the GPL2 for nearly
15 years. You do need to book beforehand. (Depending on numbers the
venue may be moved a little, another reason to book.)


Regards,

--
Dan Shearer
dan at shearer.org


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       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>     *****
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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.