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``` Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 14:54:34 -0400 From: pfh@nptn.org (Peter Harter) Subject: ILTF update
For all of the folks that have emailed me since the Spring of 1995 when the
idea for an Internet Law Task Force (ILTF) was popularized, I am sending
out an announcement concerning the Internet Law Symposium (ILS'95)
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INTERNET LAW SYMPOSIUM 95
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ADDRESS Third Avenue, 40th Floor Seattle, Washington USA 98101-3099 REGISTRATION 206.287.3498 or FAX 206.583.8500 INFORMATION 206.287.3144 =46AX 206.583.8500 E-MAIL ils95@halcyon.com WEB http://www.discovery.org/ils95/
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SUBJECT: INTERNET LAW SYMPOSIUM 95
Thank you for your interest in ILS 95. We are delighted to provide you with
an executive summary, program agenda and a recent NewsBytes story about the
first international INTERNET LAW SYMPOSIUM 95. ILS 95 will be a two-day
event, October 30-31, 1995, at the Westin Hotel in Seattle, Washington. A
select group of authorities on internetworking technology and law will
confront the leading legislative and legal issues surrounding Internet
communications. If you wish added to the ILS 95 mailing list, please make
your request immediately by
e-mail
Rex B. Hughes ILS 95 Symposium Coordinator Discovery Institute
=46or further information please contact: Discovery Institute
E-Mail ils95@halcyon.com Tel. 206.287.3498 =46ax 206.583.8500
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R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M
The World's First International INTERNET LAW SYMPOSIUM 95 Westin Hotel Seattle, WA USA October 30-31, 1995
CLE Crredits Pending
Please Fax or mail registration to "Discovery Institute ILS 95"
REGISTRATION: The cost of the program is $475 per person with advanced registration paid on or before October 20, 1995 After October 20, 1995, the fee is $525.
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E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y
Purpose: To provide introduction, update, and examination of legal issues arising from personal, academic, government, and commercial use of the Internet.
Audience: (1) Law professionals and para-professionals who seek professional instruction and/or Continuing Legal Education (CLE) on Internet related legal/legislative digital communications issues. (2) Business leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and administrators who use or plan to use the Internet in their sales and marketing.(3) Internet technology developers, providers and related experts who seek introduction and clarifications of legal/legislative digital communications issues.
Date/Time: October 30 - 31, 1995, during business day hours.
Place: Westin Hotel * Seattle, Washington USA
Host: Discovery Institute
Legal Host: Perkins Coie
=46acilitator: Internet Group Inc.
CoSponsors: Microsoft Netscape Communications IBM US West GTE Perkins Coie Dun & Bradstreet Northwest Nexus =46orbes ASAP MJ Murdock Chairtable Trust
INTERNET GROWTH =46requently labeled a network of networks, the Internet is basically a system of protocols that demands real time decisions and agreements. The astonishing growth and reach of the Internet challenge the older, established boundaries, agreements, and rules. A bewildering array of data communications systems has developed through telephone companies, commercial on-line services, electronic mail vendors, and packet-switched local/wide networks. Because these systems have not been linked in useful ways, the Internet has become the common ground. With increasing mass and momentum, the Internet is developing into the most useful and ubiquitous communications system for personal, academic, government, and commercial computer-to-computer contacts, conversations, and transactions.
INTERNET LEGAL CHALLENGES As the most powerful communications tool in the history of the world, the Internet affects a vast mix of companies, institutions, countries, states, and millions and millions of individuals. Hardly an issue escapes the use and application of the Internet. The global and free-wheeling nature of the Internet, redefines and even defies long-standing rules or laws applicable to traditional and older information devices and systems. Common questions and issues such as privacy, copyright, defamation, security, accountability, liability, freedom of speech, interstate/international trade, and access surround the Internet.
ILS 95 OBJECTIVE INTERNET LAW SYMPOSIUM 95 is designed to present to participants and the Internet community a coherent discussion and formulation of the law as it properly applies within the universe of digital communications. Included in the program will be a close-up look at Internet resources and applications for law professionals. As the first public forum of its kind, ILS 95 will gather experts who will examine the pervasive impact of the Internet on law and society. Consequently, ILS 95 will also provide a window into the twenty-first century for the practice of law in an Internet-like environment where an increasing number of legal issues and questions arise among the tens of millions of users who interact electronically in some measure.
Arguably, the Internet has benefited from the fact that the law has not kept pace with technology. However, those halcyon days appear to be fading as Congress has "discovered" the Internet and the government has sought to co-opt cyberspace into some "national information infrastructure" with regulatory controls abounding. The law is catching up with the Internet for better or worse and lawyers need to know and understand what is ahead.
While regulation may be on the horizon, real legal issues are being dealt with on the Internet today. Lawyers need to understand the future course of Internet law and regulation, anticipate the legal needs of their clients who are going on-line in one form or another en masse, and manage their way around the daily questions arising from the integration of the Internet into the culture of society.
The program must be international in scope because the Internet is not bound by traditional borders. Information moves freely across borders giving rise to a myriad of questions regarding liability, jurisdiction, venue and legal risk.
=46inally, the convergence of computing and communications technologies create new opportunities and new legal risks. This program should explore those matters.
Topics to be covered should include: privacy, free speech (including pornography), commerce (including digital signature, electronic cash, contract formation), international and transboundary issues (including international jurisdiction, arbitration, export controls), copyright and trademark, crime and other system risks, and lawyer liability.
P R O G R A M A G E N D A
Program Chair: Tom Alberg, Teledesic, Chairman Discovery Institute Albert Gidari, Partner, Perkins Coie
MONDAY
THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE INTERNET:
8:45 A.M. Welcome Hon. Bruce Chapman, President, Discovery Institute
9:00 A.M. The Legal Challenges of the Internet Prof. Mike Townsend, Univ. of Washington School of Law Associate Director of CASRIP Albert Gidari, Partner, Perkins Coie
9:30 A.M. The Regulatory and Legislative Challenges of the Internet US Senator Slade Gorton, Science & Technology Committee US Representative Rick White, Commerce Committee
10:30 A.M. Break
10:45 A.M. Lawyer Liability on the Internet Bill Freivogel, ALAS
11:45 A.M. Luncheon Main Ballroom George Gilder, Contributing Editor, Forbes ASAP Author Microcosm,Telecosm; Life after Television
1:30 P.M. The Technical Challenges of the Internet Dr.Ed Lazowska, Chair, Univ. of Washington Computer Sciences
PROPERTY ON THE NET
2:00 P.M. Property on the Internet, Panel: "Who Owns What?": Intellectual Property on the Internet Moderator: Robert Cumbow, Perkins Coie Law Firm Panelists: Terry Carroll, Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson Tatum, Palo Alto; David Maher, Chair, Internet Task Force, Int'l Trademark Assoc., Chicago; Lew Rose, Arent Fox, Washington, D.C.; John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Vanguard Group, Pinedale, Wyoming
3:15 P.M. Break
3:30 P.M. The Internet Law Task Force - Developing a Legal Framework for the Internet: Peter F. Harter, Exec. Dir. & Gen. Counsel= , Nat'l Public Telecomputing Network, Cleveland
4:15 P.M. Live Internet Demonstration Bret Arsenault, Network Engineer, Microsoft Corporation Katherine De Bruyn, MIS Director, Perkins Coie Walter Taucher, President, Corporate Computer, Inc. Rex Hughes,VP Internet Group, Inc, Fellow Discovey Institute
5:00 P.M. Reception
Evening free for dining and sightseeing
TUESDAY
INTERNATIONAL MARKETS AND BORDERLESS TRANSACTIONS
9 A.M. Panel - "International Commerce on a Borderless Internet" Moderator: Mark Ryland, Program Manager, OLE Technology, Business Systems Group, Microsoft Panelists: Chuck Marson, Netscape Communications Hon. Larry Irving, US Dept. of Commerce (or alternate) Tom Alberg,Teledesic, Discovery Institute Jeffrey B. Ritter, Director ECLIPS, United Nations Rapporteur on legal quations
10:15 P.M. Panel - "Digital Questions Cash & Banking: Making Money Obsolete" Panelists: Larry Gilbert, General Counsel, Cybercash Stephen Kroll, FINCEN, Money Laundering Dun & Bradstreet representative Robert E. Smith, Electronic Commerce Resource Center, Bremer= ton
LUNCH John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
1:15 P.M. "Whose Cyberspace Is It Anyway?": International Views Panelists: Lisa Brownlee, Trenit=E9 Van Doorn, Amsterdam B. Stephan Romaniuk, AGT Ltd., Toronto Peter Groves, Bircham & Co., London
CIVIL LIBERTIES AND LIABILITIES
2:00 P.M. Panel: Civil Liberties in Cyberspace Free Speech, Defamation, Pornography and Censorship Moderator: Jim Bond, Dean, Seattle Univ. School of Law Panelists: Jerry Berman, Pres., Center for Democracy & Technology Jim Frush, Helsell Fetterman, former Assistant US David Skover, Seattle Univ. School of Law
3:00 P.M. Questions
3:30 P.M Special Guest for Closing Session
Adjournment Early for Halloween
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Peter F. Harter, Executive Director & General Counsel Home Page: "http://www.nptn.org/about.nptn/whois/pfh/" The National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) "http://www.nptn.org/" E-mail: pfh@nptn.org Voice: 216/498-4050 Fax: 216/498-4051 Offices: 30680 Bainbridge Road, Solon, Ohio 44139-2268 U.S.A.
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