Program Details

The 2008 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal Symposium takes place in the heart of Silicon Valley, where the frontiers of innovation are being explored and defined every day. Over the years, technological innovations have spurred legal debate, legislation, and litigation. The CHTLJ Symposia have been important for discussion and debate. This year’s Symposium will tackle head-on some of the most dynamic legal issues facing practitioners, academics, and jurists alike: Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, and the GPL.

With the advent of broadband access and wireless technologies, users are interacting with the Internet in ways scarcely familiar to the humble beginnings of the world wide web. User collaboration, blogging, social networks, opinion and advice sites, and user-generated content have transformed the Internet, making the end-user a content-provider of increasingly-rich web media. In addition to humble observations from mobile bloggers, users are creating vast new worlds and content, which is now available to everyone, often at no charge.

The legal contours of this uncharted landscape are being mapped at a rate far slower than the imaginations of the millions of users of the Internet around the world. With each new lane paved on the information superhighway, new legal checkpoints must be established to ensure that other users’ rights are not infringed. The fine line between collaboration and copying, contribution and ownership, informationsharing and privacy-invasion, and candid advice and outright slander is often unknown and undefined in the largely-unregulated forum of the Internet.

The 2008 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal Symposium is proud to bring together a collection of the nation’s top practitioners, academics, and jurists to Silicon Valley to engage in thoughtful discussion about some of the most puzzling and important legal issues that face users and providers of Internet content. Our distinguished panelists will discuss the legal issues facing social networks, user-generated content, user-defined worlds, and licensing of open-source/free software to help explore the important legal implications of the profound new ways that users are engaging the Internet.

Panels

Moderator Tyler Ochoa Professor of Law Santa Clara University School of Law	Panelists Marty Roberts - General Counsel of Linden Lab - Play Video - Download Rachel Goda - Student of Law, Seattle University School of Law - Play Video - Download Greg Lastowka - Associate Professor, Rutgers School of Law - Camden - Play Video - Download M. Scott Boone - Associate Professor of Law, Appalachian School of Law - Play Video - Download David Post - Herman Stern Professor, Temple Law School - Play Video - Download Questions & Answers - Play Video - Download

Moderator Dorothy Glancy Professor of Law Santa Clara University School of Law	Panelists Zahavah Levine - Chief Counsel, YouTube - Play Video - Download Melinda Demsky-Mehringer - Senior Vice President, Content Protection Litigation, Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. - Play Video - Download Chris Kelly - Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook - Play Video - Download Mitchell Zimmerman - Partner, Fenwick & West LLP - Play Video - Download Steven Hetcher - Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University School of Law - Play Video - Download Questions & Answers - Play Video - Download

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	Judge Kozinski was appointed United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit on November 7, 1985, and became chief judge in December 2007. He graduated from UCLA, receiving an A.B. degree in 1972, and from UCLA Law School, receiving a J.D. degree in 1975. Prior to his appointment to the appellate bench, Judge Kozinski served as Chief Judge of the United States Claims Court, 1982-85; Special Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board, 1981-1982; Assistant Counsel, Office of Counsel to the President, 1981; Deputy Legal Counsel, Office of President-Elect Reagan, 1980-81; Attorney, Covington & Burling, 1979-81; Attorney, Forry Golbert Singer & Gelles, 1977-79; Law Clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, 1976-77; and Law Clerk to Circuit Judge Anthony M. Kennedy, 1975-76. Judge Kozinski is married to Marcy Jane Tiffany and has three children: Yale, Wyatt and Clayton.

Moderator Eric Goldman Assistant Professor Santa Clara University School of Law Academic Director of the High Tech Law InstituteProfessor of Law	Panelists David Anderman - CSenior Director of Business Affairs and Corporate Secretary, Lucasfilm Ltd. - Play Video - Download Kurt Opsahl - Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation - Play Video - Download Ian Ballon - Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig - Play Video - Download Tim Alger - Partner, Quinn Emanuel - Play Video - Download Susan Freiwald - Professor of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law - Play Video - Download Questions & Answers - Play Video - Download

Moderator Adit Khorana Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	Panelists Richard Stallman - President, Free Software Foundation - Play Video - Download Heather Meeker - Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig - Play Video - Download Alexander Caminas - Legal Counsel, Sun Microsystems - Play Video - Download John Brockland - Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP - Play Video - Download Questions & Answers - Play Video - Download

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