At noon on November 10th, in room 102, Ray Beckerman (maintainer of the blog The RIAA v. The People) will speak about the Record Industry Association of America’s efforts to curb online file-sharing by suing individual infringers.  Mr. Beckerman will address the substantive copyright law, the procedural issues raised by these suits, and the reaction of judges and law enforcement to the RIAA’s campaign.

The reading group’s uptown again this week.  Sadly, we’ll all have to wait awhile before making that subway trip downtown… unless you do it on your own time.

Anyway Halloween’ pretty soon so the topic will be zombies.

6:30 p.m., JG 701 is the current room, this is tentative.  I’ll post if it’s changed

This week’s readings, in priority order:

Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody (excerpt):
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/CompPrivConst/HereComesEverybody

Naomi Klein, China’s All-Seeing Eye:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20797485/chinas_allseeing_eye

And this week, a video clue:

Wired Science, World War 2.0 (Estonia segment, 2:45-12:30)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/23324/wired-science-technology-world-war-20

Food will be there.  Drinking group likely to follow.

This event sponsored in part by the Student Senate with funds from the
Student Activity Fee.

On behalf of the board, I want to welcome our two newest members, our 1L Representatives Elizabeth Broomfield and Susan Kremer.  We want to congratulate these two, but for those of you not selected, we still want you to be involved.  This was a difficult decision, as there were only two spots, and each applicant has something to offer SLST.  We look forward to working with all of you in the coming year.