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EDUCAUSE Live! January 23, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Legal Threats, Chilling Effects, and Warming the Air

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Wendy SeltzerWendy Seltzer
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and
Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law

Wendy Seltzer is a visiting assistant professor at Northeastern University Law School, researching intellectual property, privacy, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Seltzer founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. She has taught Internet law, copyright, and information privacy at Brooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute, where she taught Media Strategies for a Networked World, a joint course with the Said Business School. Previously, she was a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. Seltzer speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online. She has an AB and JD from Harvard, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program (Perl and MythTV).

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Wendy Seltzer, and the topic will be "Legal Threats, Chilling Effects, and Warming the Air."

The recording industry’s complaints against alleged music downloaders are just the tip of the iceberg in legal threats against online activity. In the five years of the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, we have seen thousands of legal threats, with claims including trademark infringement, defamation, and copyright infringement. This seminar will discuss some of the range of complaints, both unwarranted and justified, and describe ChillingEffects.org’s resources for those trying to evaluate legal threats. In some cases, the web’s sunlight can help to melt meritless threats.

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