Here’s Donna Wentworth on Friday, July 4, 2003, telling us what she thought of the conference.
Of course, Donna was sort of a special attendee — she took incredible notes and posted for them in near-real time all week long.
Her favorite session (when forced to choose) was the Future of Entertainment: Music panel with the EFF’s Fred von Lohmann.

Donna Wentworth On ILAW 2003

My notes and 40+ pictures located below.

Terry Fisher On BMPs – Part 1 of 5 (Small – 39 MB)

Terry Fisher On BMPs – Part 2 of 5 (Small – 40 MB)

Terry Fisher On BMPs – Part 3 of 5 (Small – 36 MB)

Terry Fisher On BMPs – Part 4 of 5 (Small – 26 MB)

Terry Fisher On BMPs – Part 5 of 5 (Small – 41 MB)

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This panel had the EFF’s Fred von Lohmann, Charlie Nesson and Leslie L. Vadasz, Director Emeritus, Intel Corporation on it and was hosted by Jonathan Zittrain.

Music Law Panel – Part 1 of 5 (Small – 49 MB)

Music Law Panel – Part 2 of 5 (Small – 50 MB)

Music Law Panel – Part 3 of 5 (Small – 51 MB)

Music Law Panel – Part 4 of 5 (Small – 51 MB)

Music Law Panel – Part 5 of 5 (Small – 65 MB)
Below: Charlie Nesson (left), Leslie L. Vadasz (middle) and the EFF’s Fred von Lohmann (right)




Below: Leslie L. Vadasz (left) and the EFF’s Fred von Lohmann (right)


Day 3 Tape 7
5:45 – Fred
9:20 CD singles never sold anyway
19:48 Fred – in the rush to save the pirates?
20:49 – Charlie
29:00 Trusted computing – my question
52:45 Report
53:48 Barton
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Tape 8
8:19 – Interdiction (Charlie)
14:20 – illegal DDOS
Fred!

Here’s an interview with Reshmi Sarkar of IT for Change about the conference and what she learned there.

Reshmi Sarkar At ILAW 2003 (Small – 7 MB)

Larry explains this session best in his own words:

“Okay, so. We’ve talked a little bit this morning about the technology affecting content distribution.
Terry gave you, as is typical with Terry, an extrordinary breadth of knowledge about the law affecting content distribution. And what I want to do today in this afternoon’s session is to draw together something about that technology and the story about law and the story about the market to give you some idea of what transformation has occured here. A picture of a change that is hard to see unless you synthesize these three different perspectives of “technology,” “law” and “the market.”

After Larry talks for awhile, he gives the stage back to Terry to elaborate for a bit on a new possible system for paying artists for file sharing distribution of their works.

Larry/Terry On Technology, Law and The Market – Part 1 of 5 (Small – 53 MB)

Larry/Terry On Technology, Law and The Market – Part 2 of 5 (Small – 36 MB)

Larry/Terry On Technology, Law and The Market – Part 3 of 5 (Small – 35 MB)

Larry/Terry On Technology, Law and The Market – Part 4 of 5 (Small – 29 MB)

Larry/Terry On Technology, Law and The Market – Part 5 of 5 (Small – 33 MB)

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In this presentation, Terry Fisher compares the traditional internet distribution models and explains some of the most important case law surrounding it all including the Sony Betamax case and the Napster case.

Terry Fisher On Music Models – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 39 MB)

Terry Fisher On Music Models – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 39 MB)

Terry Fisher On Music Models – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 50 MB)

Terry Fisher On Music Models – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 50 MB)




Day 3 – Tape 3
9:00 – comparing old and new CD models
12:00 2/3 of the costs disappear
14:27 Semiotic democracy
18:00 Moral Rights
32:00 Good slide on music
35:00 my question about retailers and shelf space
todo: ask about “character provision” of compulsory for covering songs — note: I never followed up on this – but mean to — lisa rein
42:40 – movies
45:47 – Fair use and Factors
53:03 – non-infringing uses
Day 3 Tape 4
13:34 – CARP
18:15 – Napster
20:00 CD Burning

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a.k.a – Domain names – How the mess came about
or
“How the Nerds Were Having A Perfectly Good Time Until The Businesspeople And Lawyers Showed Up And Ruined Everything”
This is a tag team lecture by Jonathan Zittrain and Terry Fisher which covers the entire history of domain names from the beginning of the Internet to the present day.

Jonathan and Terry – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 60 MB)

Jonathan and Terry – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 54 MB)

Jonathan and Terry – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 50 MB)

Jonathan and Terry – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 52 MB)
I don’t have any notes for this section, but I do have a ton of pictures.








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This is a placeholder for the brief panel with former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt and Leslie L. Vadasz, Director Emeritus, Intel Corporation that took place during the first part of Tuesday afternoon at ILAW 2003.
I had only recorded a portion of their presentations and the Q and A afterwards, because I hadn’t brought enough tape for the entire day and I didn’t want to miss the governance tag team with Jonathan Zittrain and Terry Fisher that was scheduled afterwards.
As it turns out, Reed Hundt asked that I not publish his presentation (which was quite a surprise considering that it didn’t seem like he had said anything that could be construed as even remotely controversial).
So this entry is just a placeholder for what would have gone here.
Note: Except for Jonathan Zittrain’s introductory presentation (Day 1-AM 1) and this presentation (Day 2 – PM 1), my ILAW 2003 video archive will contain the conference in its entirety.