File-Sharing Symposium at the University of Texas

Gary Chapman at the University of Texas writes "Congressman Lamar Smith of the 21st Congressional District in Texas, which takes in San Antonio and part of Austin, has assembled a remarkable panel of influential speakers to address the issue of file-sharing on college and university campuses. The event will be Friday, October 11, from 9 a.m until 10:30 at the Bass Lecture Hall in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin." Read on below for more details, especially if you're one of the thousands of UT students in the dorms.

"The panelists will be:

• Steve Griffin, Chairman and CEO of StreamCast Networks
  
• Robert Holleyman, President and CEO of the Business Software Alliance
  
• Douglas Lowenstein, President of the Interactive Digital Software Association
  
• Michael Merhej, President of Audiogalaxy.com
  
• Cary Sherman, President of the Recording Industry Association of America
  
• Gigi Sohn, President of Public Knowledge
  
• Daniel A. Updergrove, Vice President for Information Technology, University of Texas
  
• Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology

I will be the moderator for this event. For more information or to RSVP, send mail to jessica.marfurt@mail.house.gov.

Here is a map to the LBJ School at the University of Texas in Austin. The Bass Lecture Hall is in the basement of the building."

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But copyright IS good. Copyright is the foundation upon which free software rests.