[WM]: Announcement: 3rd Digital Rights Management Conference 2005

["Stefan Bechtold" <stef@n-bechtold.com>]

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                     CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

               3rd DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 2005

                     13th-14th January 2005
                       Berlin, Germany

Conference web site: http://digital-rights-management.org

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Keynote speaker:
      Prof. Hal Varian
      University of California at Berkeley

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The conference program and registration information are available at the
web site:

         http://digital-rights-management.org

The deadline for registration is 20th December 2004.

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Digital Rights Management promises novel business models for the
distribution of and access to all kinds of digital content - = from
music and movies to text and software - while ensuring that the =
interests of rights holders are protected. Over the last year, DRM
systems have been introduced in the U.S. as well as in various European
markets with great success. Increasingly, open standards-based DRM
systems play a vital = role in the mobile sector. In autumn 2003, the
German Parliament implemented the European Copyright Directive of 2001,
establishing the legal framework = for DRM systems. Further reforms of
European and German copyright law are imminent.

Thus, the time is ripe for the 3rd Digital Rights Management Conference
2005. This conference is the third in a series of leading DRM =
conferences in Europe. It will summarise the present debate about DRM on
a national and international level. It will also create an
interdisciplinary forum to discuss economic, business, legal, technical
and scientific questions as well as policy issues surrounding DRM and
the future of digital content.
Representatives of the media and IT industries, governments, user
associations, libraries, collecting societies, as well as artists,
attorneys, scientists, privacy and consumer protection advocates from
Germany, other European countries and the U.S. will discuss =
controversial issues and proposed solutions in the areas of Digital
Rights Management, Trusted Computing and alternative compensation
systems.

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Programme Committee:
Dr. Stefan Bechtold, Universitaet Tuebingen Prof. Dr. Eberhard Becker,
Universitaet Dortmund Dr. Willms Buhse, CoreMedia AG, Germany Dirk
Guennewig M.A. Pol.Wiss., Universitaet Dortmund Dipl.-Inf. Niels Rump,
Rightscom Ltd., Germany Prof. Pamela Samuelson, University of California
at Berkeley

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The conference is organised by the

Ministry of Science and Research of the State
       Northrhine Westfalia, Germany;
University of Dortmund, Germany;
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of
       California at Berkeley, USA;
Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce,
       Germany;
Alcatel SEL Foundation/Competence Center Information
       Society, Germany

Cooperation Partners:
CoreMedia AG, Germany
Rightscom Ltd., UK
Secure.it nrw, Germany
Berlecon Research GmbH, Germany
eurobits, Germany
Computer und Recht, Germany

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We would appreciate it if you could forward this information to
interested parties.

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#  Stefan Bechtold    stef@n-bechtold.com   Tuebingen, Germany  #
#           http://www.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/bechtold           #
#          http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/bechtold          #

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