EFFector       Vol. 14, No. 2       Feb. 9, 2001     [email protected]

  A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation     ISSN 1062-9424

 IN THE 162nd ISSUE OF EFFECTOR (now with over 26,300 subscribers!):

    * BayFF Meeting Examines the Future of the Net with Larry Lessig,
      Next Week
    * Staffing Changes at EFF: Activist Will Doherty Hired
    * EFF Awarded Grant by Center for the Public Domain (ex- Red Hat
      Center)
    * Administrivia

  For more information on EFF activities & alerts: http://www.eff.org
    _________________________________________________________________

BayFF Meeting Examines the Future of the Net with Larry Lessig, Next Week

     Media Advisory

 Feb. 12, 2001 BayFF Hosts Lawrence Lessig on "Architecting Innovation"

   Come Check It Out

     Join EFF with renowned Internet legal expert Lawrence Lessig in a
     discussion about architecting innovation

  WHO: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lawrence Lessig. Music by UKUSA
  WHAT: "BayFF" centers on Architecture and Innovation on the Web
  WHEN: Monday, February 12th, 2000, at 7pm PT
  WHERE: Stanford Law School, room 290
                 Crown Quadrangle
                 559 Nathan Abbott Way
                 Stanford, CA 94305-8610
                 (650)725-2565

  This event is free and open to the general public. Food and beverages
  will be served.

  Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School. He
  was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 1991 to
  1997, he was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He
  graduated from Yale Law School in 1989, and then clerked for Judge
  Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice
  Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.

  Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law,
  contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace.
  His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, is published by Basic
  Books. In 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in
  Berlin. Lessig will discuss the changing architecture of the Internet
  and how these changes, both legal and technical, will effect the
  environment for innovation.

  BayFF is first and foremost a real-space event, meant to serve as an
  educational forum for the local community, as well as a catalyst for
  like-minded activists. Locals, please show your support in person!
  BayFF fans and followers that are scattered across the country and
  around the world can access this month's BayFF WebCast at:
  http://www.eclipsnow.com
  February's BayFF will be Webcast by Eclipsnow! which has kindly
  donated its services to EFF. Eclipsnow! has been Webcasting corporate
  events, public affairs music and entertainment since 1996. It requires
  Windows Media Player as far as we know (though RealPlayer 8 might also
  work.)

  For directions to the event, you can use free services like
  http://www.mapquest.com or http://maps.yahoo.com to generate driving
  directions or maps. For CalTrain and Muni directions, please call
  their information lines.

  You can subscribe to receive future BayFF annoucements. To subscribe,
  email [email protected] and put this in the text (not the subject
  line): subscribe bayff.

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties
  organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded
  in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and
  government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the
  information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and
  maintains one of the most-linked-to Web sites in the world:
  http://www.eff.org

  Continuing over 10 years of defending civil liberties online, EFF
  presents a series of regular meetings to address important issues
  where technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled "BayFF"
  Bay-area Friends of Freedom), kicked off on July 10, 2000, and will
  continue on a monthly basis.

   For more information, see:

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation:
    http://www.eff.org

  Prof. Lawrence Lessig's home page:
    http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessig.html

   Contact:

    Katina Bishop
    Director of Education & Offline Activism
    Electronic Frontier Foundation
    +1 415 436 9333 x101
    [email protected]

    _________________________________________________________________


Staffing Changes at EFF: Activist Will Doherty Hired

     Electronic Frontier Foundation Press Release -- Feb. 8, 2001

 Online Activist Will Doherty Joins EFF Staff

   Senior Industry Professional to Spearhead Electronic Frontier Foundation's
   Grassroots Activism

     For Immediate Release

     Contact:

    Will Doherty - EFF Online Activist
    +1 415 436 9333
    [email protected]

    Shari Steele - EFF Executive Director
    +1 415 436 9333
    [email protected]

  SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 8, 2001 - The Electronic Frontier
  Foundation (EFF) today announced the hire of Will Doherty as the
  organization's Online Activist, spearheading online outreach and
  grassroots organizing on EFF's pioneering work to protect Internet
  free speech and privacy rights. Doherty will cultivate strategic
  partnerships and coordinate educational and advocacy campaigns online.
  In addition, Doherty will develop and coordinate relationships with
  media covering the Internet policy beat.

  "We are so excited to have Will join our team," exclaimed EFF's
  Executive Director Shari Steele. "Will brings to EFF more than 20
  years of experience as an online activist and computing consultant.
  His work within the online civil liberties community is well known and
  well-respected. We're all looking forward to working with Will as he
  communicates our work to the online world."

  "As Internet technology has challenged our traditional notions of
  civil liberties, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has stepped up to
  protect the rights of all people who use the Internet," said Doherty.
  "I am proud to join such an important organization."

  Doherty also currently serves as Founder and Executive Director of the
  Online Policy Group, dedicated to "one Internet with equal access for
  all." Doherty has designed and implemented Internet strategies and
  websites for many nonprofit community and advocacy organizations.

  Prior to founding the Online Policy Group, Doherty served as the
  Director of Online Community Development at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance
  Against Defamation (GLAAD), where he focused on the online rights of
  the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. He managed
  GLAAD's Digital Media Resource Center in San Francisco, cultivating
  strategic partnerships in Silicon Valley and beyond.

  Doherty has been part of the online community for a long time. In the
  early 1980s, Doherty worked on the ARPANET, precursor of the Internet.
  Doherty served as the Globalization Operations Manager at Sybase,
  Inc., and as a Localization Program Manager and a Technical Writer for
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. Doherty holds an MBA from Golden Gate
  University and a BS in Computer Science and Writing from Massachusetts
  Institute of Technology.

  EFF's long-time online activist & tech Stanton McCandlish remains with
  the organization, and is now devoted full-time to webmastering. Of
  Doherty he said, "I can't think of anyone more qualified to be our
  activist & press manager than Will, and I'm delighted he's on board
  with us."

   About EFF:

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties
  organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded
  in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and
  government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the
  information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and
  maintains one of the most linked-to Web sites in the world:
  http://www.eff.org

    _________________________________________________________________


EFF Awarded Grant by Center for the Public Domain (ex- Red Hat Center)

     Center for the Public Domain Press Release -- Feb. 9, 2001

 Center for the Public Domain Funds Projects Worldwide

   to Address Intellectual Property Issues, Open Access and the Fair Exchange
   of Information

     For Immediate Release

     Contact:

    Tawnya Louder-Reynolds
    Center for the Public Domain
    +1 919 549 8388
    [email protected]

  DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA -- The Center for the Public Domain (formerly
  Red Hat Center) today announced a series of grants to organizations
  worldwide that will provide information to raise the public's
  knowledge of open access and the fair exchange of information from
  medicine to the Internet to software, as well as study the
  repercussions of current intellectual property (IP) treaties and
  legislation. The grant recipients are known for their success in
  building alliances, education, research and reporting, and their IP
  advocacy efforts.

  The grantees are:

  Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (California)
  $35,000

  The mission of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology is to foster
  beneficial and ethical advancement of technology by promoting the
  understanding and guiding the development of intellectual property and
  related fields of law and policy as they intersect with business,
  science and technology. Attorney Fred von Lohmann is conducting
  intellectual property law research.
  http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt

  Consumer Project on Technology (CPT) (District of Columbia)
  $30,000

  Established by Ralph Nader, CPT focuses on intellectual property
  rights and health care, electronic commerce and competition policy. As
  the primary global advocate for compulsory licensing of patents of
  essential medicines, CPT responds to trade policies and practices on
  intellectual property influencing the price of medicines in poor and
  developing countries. CPT is also addressing the "Hague Treaty on
  Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters"
  and its consequences for e-commerce. http://www.cptech.org

  Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (California)
  $17,500

  A leading organization focused on representing the rights of
  individuals worldwide, EFF works in the public interest to protect
  fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of
  expression in the arena of computers and the Internet. EFF works to
  preserve free expression by upholding rights to digital free
  expression from political, legal and technical threats, defining
  digital privacy by empowering people to maintain their privacy and
  control their digital identity and ensuring systems are designed to
  respect people's rights, such as free speech, privacy and fair use.
  http://www.eff.org

  Free Software Foundation (FSF) (Massachusetts)
  $17,500

  The Free Software Foundation is dedicated to eliminating restrictions
  on copying, redistribution, understanding, and modification of
  computer programs by promoting the development and use of free
  software in all areas of computing. http://www.fsf.org

  Collaborative Ownership in a Digital Economy (CODE) (England)
  $10,000

  A partnership between Academic Europaea and the Arts Council of
  Cambridge, England, CODE (an April 2001 meeting) will examine issues
  such as community and copyright, recovering the 'collective'
  independent networks of research and collaboration, the need for
  intellectual property systems to evolve in line with changing
  technologies, the shifts in conventional approaches to learning and
  research enabled by collaborative technologies and the emergence of
  open code and open content applications as key drivers of the
  knowledge economy. http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de

  Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) (District of Columbia.)
  $10,000

  EPIC is a public research center established to focus public attention
  on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, First
  Amendment rights, and constitutional values. As part of a wide range
  of landmark reports on critical issues affecting the future of the
  Internet, EPIC will publish "Surfer Beware IV," a report that examines
  the extent to which proprietary standards are threatening the privacy,
  freedom of expression, and the open architecture of the Internet. For
  other Surfer Beware reports, see http://www.epic.org

  Federation for a Free Informational Infrastructure (FFII) (Germany)
  $10,000

  A public-interest association designed to promote free competition in
  the software field and to fund public interest. FFII is conducting
  software patent research. http://www.ffii.org

   About the Center for the Public Domain (the Center):

  Founded in January 2000, the Center for the Public Domain has awarded
  over $4.8 million in grants to projects worldwide, supporting efforts
  to raise public awareness on intellectual property issues and access
  to information. The Center is a nonprofit foundation that strives to
  raise awareness, support research and fund educational programs,
  promote collaboration and build partnerships that strengthen the
  public community of shared information, culture, and ideas. Its goals
  are to increase public awareness of the value of growing the public
  domain and its benefit to society, and to support advocacy that
  promotes collaboration, open access, and the fair exchange of
  information.

  The Mission of the Center for the Public Domain is to support the
  growth of a healthy and robust public domain by establishing programs,
  grants, and partnerships in the areas of academic research, medicine,
  law, education, media, technology, and the arts.

  For more information on the Center for the Public Domain, see
  http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org or for information on Center
  grants, see
  http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org/grantmaking/support.html .

    _________________________________________________________________


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