Just got back from a daylong conference at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business on the subject of DRM, or digital rights management. In many ways it was the West Coast version of the I-Law conference at Harvard’s Berkman School last July. Some 300 folks jammed into the hall for most of the day (the conference runs three days, but today was the big enchilada).
Lot of familiar faces here, many of whom I’ve interviewed for the book I’m writing on digital rights: Cary Sherman, Larry Lessig, Edward Felten, Sarah Deutsch, Dave Farber, Donald Whiteside, Chris Murray, and others. Media folks in attendance included Dan Gillmor, Drew Clark of the National Journal, Katie Dean of Wired News and I think Amy Harmon of the NY Times. The blogger crowd was also out in force, include EFF’s Seth Schoen, Lisa Rein, Aaron Schwarz and others.
Bloggers who did a terrific job of blogging the conference live — yes, they had a wifi connection — included Dan, Bryan Alexander, Lawrence Solum and 16-year-old Aaron, who’s wise beyond his years. So I wound up taking more photos than notes (though I tape-recorded the proceedings). So I’ll share some here.
Cary Sherman, president of RIAA (click to enlarge):
Dave Farber, whose mailing list at the Univ. of Penn. is over 30,000 strong:
Sarah Deutsch, VP and associate general counsel of Verizon:
Prof. Edward Felten, left, and Prof. Larry Lessig:
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