Digital Dialog Lecture with Cory Doctorow

Please join UCSD Libraries for a lecture on "The Access to Knowledge Treaty: What if WIPO actually worked for us?" by Cory Doctorow, on Monday, March 14th, 9:00-11:00am in the Geisel Library Seuss Room.  Light refreshments will be served.  

Mr. Doctorow will be discussing Digital Rights Management and the new Access to Knowledge Treaty movement underway at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that will safeguard the rights of archivists, disabled people, and educators. Cory Doctorow is European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported nonprofit group that works to uphold civil liberties values in technology law, policy and standards. He represents EFF's interests at various standards bodies and consortia, and at the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization. Doctorow is also a prolific writer who appears on the mastheads at Wired, Make and Popular Science Magazines, and whose science fiction novels have won the Campbell, Sunburst and Locus Awards and whose story "0wnz0red" and novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" were nominated for the Nebula Award. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing. Born in Canada, he now lives in London, England.

Sponsored by the UCSD Libraries Digital Library Program and UCSD Libraries Information Technology Department.

For more information, please contact James R. Jacobs at (858) 534-1266.

Please RSVP by March 11

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