INTERNET PIRACY TO BE EXPLORED AT UO LAW SCHOOL PORTLAND SYMPOSIUM, Oct. 13
September 18, 2000
Contact Maureen Shine (541) 346-3145
Source: Barbara Aldave, director, UO Law and Entrepreneurship Center, (541) 346-3985
Source: Judy Sprauer, program coordinator, UO Law and Entrepreneurship Center, (541) 346-3994
Source: Jason Howell, symposium chair, UO School of Law, (541) 346-7326
EUGENE–The issues and controversies surrounding theft of intellectual property, including trademark, Internet and other copyright piracy, will be addressed during a Portland symposium sponsored by the University of Oregon School of Law.
The daylong symposium, "Intellectual Property Piracy," is sponsored by the law school’s Law and Entrepreneurship Center and takes place on Oct. 13 at the Portland Downtown Embassy Suites Hotel, 319 S.W. Pine St.
Symposium panels will address copyright and trademark piracy issues in the areas of music, software, visual media and the international arena. Speakers include attorneys from Dreamworks SKG, Microsoft, adidas America, Supertracks and Digimarc. Topics will focus on how attorneys and businesses might better address piracy issues in the digital age.
"This is a tremendous area of concern for copyright-based industries that are losing an estimated $22 billion a year to piracy," says Barbara Aldave, director of the UO Law and Entrepreneurship Center. "This symposium will address industry concerns and controversies that, within the next few years, are expected to drastically alter the way businesses involved in copyright-based technology operate."
The symposium’s keynote address will be delivered by Sean Hoar, assistant U.S. attorney in Eugene, who handled the prosecution for the nation’s first Internet piracy conviction under the No Electronic Theft Act. The law was signed by President Clinton in 1997 and makes it illegal to reproduce or distribute copyrighted works, such as software and digital recordings. Hoar will speak about prosecution guidelines on criminal copyright infringement cases, fair use proposals and industry issues.
Symposium panels include:
9—10:15 a.m. Software Piracy. Scheduled panelists are Anne Kelley, senior attorney for
Microsoft, Seattle, Wash.; Blake Hutchins, creative writer, Dynamix, Inc., Eugene; Gary Glisson, Stoel Rives, LLP, Portland; and Greg Broiles, vice president for Signet Assurance Co., San Francisco, Calif.
10:30 a.m.—Noon Visual Media Piracy. Scheduled panelists are Jean Murrell-Adams, head
of litigation, DreamWorks SKG, Los Angeles, Calif.; Joel Meyer, patent counsel, Digimarc Corp.; Paul Loving, vice president of business development, Torson Group, Inc., Portland; Sarah Conley, Kent Conley, PC, Portland.
Noon—1:15 p.m. Keynote Address. Sean Hoar, assistant U.S. attorney, Eugene.
1:30—2:45p.m. Music Piracy. Scheduled panelists are Jeff Vanek, director of business
affairs, Supertracks, Portland; Joel Corcoran, Klarquist Sparkman Campbell Leigh & Whinston, LLP, Portland; Mark Hosler, band musician with NegativLand; Mike Cohen, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, PC, Portland.
3—4 p.m. International Piracy. Scheduled panelists are David Petersen, Klarquist
Sparkman Campbell Leigh & Whinston, LLP, Portland; Mark Sommers, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Mike Heilbronner, associate counsel, intellectual property, adidas America, Inc., Beaverton; Stuart Brown, Preston Gates & Ellis, Portland.
The Intellectual Property Piracy symposium is co-sponsored by the Portland law firms Stoel Rives, LLP, and Klarquist Sparkman Campbell Leigh & Whinston, LLP. The Oregon State Bar is awarding Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit for attorneys who attend the symposium.
Registration fee is $125. On-line symposium information and registration are available on the web at http://www.law.uoregon.edu/%7Elec/leconf2/index.html.
For more information about the symposium or to register, contact symposium chair Jason Howell, UO School of Law, (541) 346-7326; or Judy Sprauer, program coordinator, UO Law and Entrepreneurship Center, (541) 346-3994.
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