Feb 21 Main Program: Mike Erwin (formerly of OuterNet Connection Strategies, an Austin-area ISP) speaks about computer forensics and security. Chip Rosenthal, of Unicom Systems Development. Recipient of Austin Chronicle's 1997 Tech Award for "Best Usenet Watchdog & Helpful Guy" for his fight against SPAM, will discuss his battle with a California company that is attempting to commandeer his primary domain that he has been using since 1990.
The topic of the meeting will be Copyright and Intellectual Property.
Our presenter will be Siva Vaidhyanathan, a noted author on intellectual property and the creative culture. I.P. issues are becoming increasingly important for computer professionals, because they affect our ability to create and innovate both within the I.T. community and our culture as a whole.
In addition to being the author of "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity", and "The Anarchist in the Library", Dr. Vaidhyanathan has also written for
The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net, and The Nation.
Dr. Vaidhyanathan is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and currently is the Director of the undergraduate program for Communication Studies in Culture and Communication at New York University.
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