[A2k] State of Play Academy

Mon Oct 30 16:42:03 2006

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Judit Rius Sanjuan
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Consumer Project on Technology
1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel.:  +1.202.332.2670, Ext 17 Fax: +1.202.332.2673

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I thought some of you may be interested in this
project I am working on to build a law and
technology academy in the virtual world
There.com.  Contact me if you have any questions.
You can sign up for our mailing list to receive
regular updates on classes and our progress.

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State of Play Academy
http://stateofplayacademy.com/index.php

The State of Play Academy is the first law and
technology academy built in a virtual world. Its
purpose is to challenge the traditional means of
imparting a legal education-in time, place and
manner-- by experimenting with opportunities
offered by the virtual space. It is funded by a
grant awarded to New York Law School by
There.com.  We usually have classes on a law and
technology issue every Tuesday and Thursday
evening from 5:30-6:30 PM PST.

If you have questions, email Lauren Gelman, Dean
of State of Play Academy at gelman@stanford.edu

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You will need to download the There.com software
onto your computer (PC/PC emulator versions only
available) before the class.

Try a free avatar--  All you need to do is
download the software from There.com and log in
using one of these avatars:

Avatar: studentone
Password: studentone

Avatar: studenttwo
Password: studenttwo

Avatar: studentthree
Password: studentthree

Avatar: studentfour
Password: studentfour

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Upcoming Classes

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An Update on Internet Gambling

Today (05:30 PM =BB 06:30 PM PST)

  =09Stanford Law School CIS Fellow David
Levine will lead a discussion about the current
state of law on Internet gambling.  He'll discuss
the history, where the law currently stands, and
share some war stories from when he represented
Gambling companies.

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Digital Robin Hood

Thursday, 26 October (05:30 PM =BB 06:30 PM PST)
  =09Teacher: Bod=F3 Bal=E1zs, Fulbright Visiting
Researcher, Center for Internet and Society,
Stanford Law School

Copying is killing the music, the music industry,
it hurts national economies and the global
economy and terrorist organizations are financed
through piracy. But this vision of the
Intellectual Property Armageddon is only one way
of looking at the impact of file-sharers on the
flow of cultural goods. When it comes to small
and secluded linguistic cultural communities
beyond the global English language universe,
file-sharing might have a surprisingly
significant impact on the accessibility of
cultural goods.

Through the efforts of users digitizing and
sharing these goods many segments of culture
suddenly become accessible: works that were
buried by the ever new bestsellers, works that
have never had the chance to become a classic, or
were never intended to become one, works produced
for and by marginal groups of marginal interests,
works that have never had a chance to be
commercially viable, works that would not be able
to cross geographical and/or cultural distances
otherwise, work that are well beyond the
collecting scope of local libraries. Works, that
are part of culture and somehow not part of
culture.

File-sharing communities are also remembering
communities. They direct attention and thus
demand, they discuss and thus keep alive cultural
goods. When something is posted as available for
download, not only those fetch it have requested
a particular item, but also those who were
standing nearby. These individuals are reciting
work long forgotten like those who in Bradbury's
Fahrenheit 451 memorize books to be able to share
them with others.

Bod=F3 Bal=E1zs (1975), economist, assistant
lecturer, researcher at the Budapest University
of Technology and Economics, Department of
Sociology and Communications, Center for Media
Research and Education since 2001. Fulbright
Visiting Researcher at Stanford Law School.
Project lead for  Creative Commons Hungary.

His academic interests include sociocultural
impacts of new media, media regulation, online
communities. Leader of the development of several
commercial internet applications as well as
numerous academic research projects dealing with
digital archives, e-learning and online
communities.  He is an Editor and member of the
board of the Budapest based community radio Tilos.

His current research is about the impact of
file-sharing on vernacular cultures.

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NOTE DATE AND TIME

Community Patent Review

Monday, 30 October (011:00 AM =BB 012:00 PM  PST)

  =09Community Patent Review is the United
States Patent and Trademark Office's strategic
initiative launching in early 2007 to open up the
patent examination process and encourage public
participation and the submission of prior art and
commentary on pending patent applications. This
Community Patent Review initiative requires
applicants to consent to participation. This
session will address how the system will work. It
addresses why patent applicants and their lawyers
should submit applications and why scientists,
engineers and legal professionals should get
involved as peer reviewers. Come join Manny
Schecter, Assoc. General Counsel, Intellectual
Property Law, IBM Corporation, and Prof. Beth
Noveck, Director, Community Patent Review
project, New York Law School to learn about this
important new development in patent practice and
reform.

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No Class Halloween

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Open Discussion on Virtual World Education

Thursday, 2 November (05:30 PM =BB 06:30 PM PST)

Led by Lauren Gelman, Dean, State of Play Academy

What have we learned? what works best? what
should the curriculum look like?  What do you
want to see happen at SOPA?
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Lauren Gelman
Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School
(ph) 650-724-3358
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/gelman/
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