Shared Airwaves/Shared Content: Open Spectrum and Digital Rights Management

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Other Speakers Include:

Kevin Kahn
Intel Fellow; Director, Intel Communications Technology Lab
Kevin Werbach,
Supernova Group; Former FCC Counsel for New Technology Policy
Andrew Moss,
Director of Technical Policy, Windows, Microsoft Corporation
Sandra Aistars,
Counsel for Intellectual Property, AOL Time Warner
Cory Doctorow
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Anthony Townsend,
Co-Founder & Executive Director, NYCwireless.net
Ed Felten,
Princeton University
Mike Godwin,
Senior Technology Counsel, Public Knowledge
Gigi B. Sohn,
President and Co-Founder, Public Knowledge
Michael Calabrese,
New America Foundation

Is Open Spectrum — the unlicensed sharing of the airwaves predicted by George Gilder in 1993 — an idea whose time has arrived? Unlicensed spectrum innovators discuss the future of wireless and react to Kevin Werbach’s important new report, “Radio Revolution: The Coming Age of Unlicensed Wireless.”

As copyrighted works increasingly become digital and therefore more easily copied, content companies have employed new digital-rights management technologies to protect their works. Mike Godwin’s new report “What Citizens Should Know About DRM (Digital Rights Management),” explores the social and legal significance of DRM technologies, and a panel of stakeholders debates the DRM question.

Participants

• George Gilder
  Chairman, Gilder Publishing