Intellectual Property Rights & the Modern University: How to Move Forward in the 21st Century March 27, 2007

USC Free Culture invites you to an important discussion on the impact of copyright laws and the University:

Over the last decade, copyright emerged as weapon for the Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) to shut down Napster, alienate a whole generation of music lovers, and most recently, force universities to police their own students. Our distinguished panel will consider the following questions:

How should universities respond?

How do film schools balance students’ desire to mash-up/remix films with the institutional desire to protect copyright?

How is the growing media reform movement addressing these changes?

* Moderator: Geoff Cowan, Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication
* Participants:
o David A. Abel - President, CEO, ABL, Inc. Publisher/Managing Editor The Planning Report and Metro Investment Report. Chairman, New Schools/ Better Neighborhoods
o Larry Gross - Director, USC Annenberg School of Communication
o Michael Renov - Associate Dean, USC School of Cinematic Arts and Professor of Critical Studies
o Jen Urban - Director, USC Intellectual Property Clinic and Clinical Associate Professor, USC Gould School of Law)

*open to the public*

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