[Ecommerce] FYI: Tuesday March 1, Press Conf on File sharing case (EFF and PK)

[Manon Ress]

Subject: EFF: March 1 Press Conference on Supreme Court
File-Sharing Case
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:54:07 -0800
From: EFF Press <press@eff.org>
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
To: presslist@eff.org

Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release

For Immediate Release: Friday, February 25, 2005

Contact:

Art Brodsky
    Communications Director
    Public Knowledge
    abrodsky@publicknowledge.org
    +1 202 518-0020 (office)   +1 301 908-7715 (cell)

Annalee Newitz
    Policy Analyst
    Electronic Frontier Foundation
    annalee@eff.org
    +1 415 436-9333 x131

March 1 Press Conference on Supreme Court File-Sharing Case

Discussion with Defendants and Friends-of-the-Court on the Day
Briefs Are Filed

Washington, DC - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and
Washington, DC-based Public Knowledge will host a press
conference on Tuesday, March 1 to discuss briefs filed by
defendants and friends-of-the-court that day in MGM v. Grokster.
The case, which will be argued before the US Supreme Court on
March 29, concerns whether manufacturers of peer-to-peer
file-sharing software Grokster and StreamCast (makers of
Morpheus) should be held liable for the copyright infringements
of their users.

Media professionals attending this event will hear from the
defendants in the case, attorneys, and representatives from
several groups that have filed friend-of-the-court (amicus)
briefs.  Amici supporting the defendants include venture
capitalists, consumer electronics companies, law professors,
consumer groups, economists, and technology researchers.

The press conference will take place Tuesday, March 1, at 2:00
p.m. EST.  Journalists are invited to attend the live event at
the offices of Public Knowledge (1875 Conn. Ave, NW #650,
Washington, DC) or phone in via teleconference.

Confirmed attendees include:

* Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation, counsel for
Streamcast, one of the peer-to-peer companies being sued * Mike
Weiss, CEO of Streamcast * Michael Page, attorney for Grokster *
Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge * Mark Cooper, Consumer
Federation of America * Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer
Electronics Association * Ed Black, president of Computer and
Communications Industry Association

Journalists who wish to call in should contact EFF Media
Coordinator Annalee Newitz at: annalee@eff.org

For more information about MGM v. Grokster:
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/

For this release:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_02.php#003376

About EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties
organization working to protect rights in the digital world.
Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry
and government to support free expression and privacy online. EFF
is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most
linked-to websites in the world at http://www.eff.org/


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