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Stanford law professor Larry Lessig debates Hilary Rosen, former CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, on two successive nights regarding issues surrounding downloading music, internet piracy and copyright laws in the world of cyberspace.
What do a pre-teen New York City resident, a septuagenarian grandfather from Texas, a Yale photography professor and a 23-year-old single mother from Santa Clarita, Calif., have in common?
They are among nearly 300 individuals recently sued by the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group representing the $14 billion U.S. sound recording industry.
At issue: The trading of copyrighted materials – in this case, MP3 audio files – over the Internet. At stake, recording executives charge, are both profits and artists’ rights.
On Oct. 21 and 22, former RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen debates Stanford law professor Larry Lessig on issues of downloading music, Internet piracy and copyright laws in the world of cyberspace.
A founder and board member of Rock the Vote, Rosen consistently has fought to protect the right of artists to express themselves without fear of censorship. The Hollywood Reporter includes her in its “Power 50” list and Washingtonian magazine has named her one of the capital’s “100 Most Powerful Women.”
Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional and Internet law. He is the author of “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace” and has written for The New Republic, Wall Street Journal and Wired Magazine.
This debate is the second in the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences fall lecture series.
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