Announcement: Fordham Symposium on Law in the Information Society

Intermediaries in the Information Society
March 27, 2009

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Content and the CDA Immunity
When do—and when should—intermediaries receive immunity for user content under the Communications Decency Act? Panelists will discuss the status of CDA immunity, the standard for when an intermediary can be deemed a content provider after the Roomates.com and Craigslist cases, and whether the CDA immunity should be modified.

Why is Tiffany Blue? 3rd-Party Liability and the eBay Cases
Should online auction houses or other third parties be responsible for the sale of counterfeit goods? Panelists will address the ongoing series of attempts in the United States and Europe to extend the scope of vicarious liability and contributory infringement, as well as related issues.

The Social Impact of Intermediaries
What impact do intermediaries have on society and culture? Panelists will discuss the ways intermediaries have changed how information is created and communicated—and the ways that intermediaries may impact the future of the information society.

Intermediaries as Legal Filters
Should intermediaries be used to filter information? What impact will filtering methods such as deep packet inspection have on immunity and liability for intermediaries? Panelists will examine requirements for ISPs to block access to sites containing material deemed illegal, explore filtering done for business reasons, and consider a range of filtering purposes--from censoring speech to combatting child pornography to ranking search results.

Practical Tips for Advising Intermediaries
Practitioners will provide guidance about things to be aware of when advising intermediaries.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Jack Balkin,Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment & Director of The Information Society Project, Yale Law School

Ian C. Ballon, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Dr. Ian Brown, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute & Honorary Senior Lecturer, University College London

Dan L. Burk, Founding Faculty, University of California–Irvine School of Law

Eric Goldman, Associate Professor of Law & Director of the High Tech Law Institute, Santa Clara University School of Law

Wendy Gordon, Visiting Professor, Fordham Law School; Philip S. Beck Professor of Law & Paul J. Liacos Scholar in Law, Boston University School of Law

James Grimmelmann, Associate Professor of Law, New York Law School

Paul Gupta, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Thomas D. Halket, Attorney and Chartered Arbitrator, Halket & Weitz LLP

Samir Jain, Partner, WilmerHale

Nancy Kim, Associate Professor of Law, California Western School of Law & Visiting Associate Professor, Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego

Helen Nissenbaum, Professor of Media, Culture & Communication & Senior Fellow of the Information Law Institute, New York University

Dawn C. Nunziato, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

Joel Reidenberg, Associate Chief Academic Officer & Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Fordham University; Professor of Law and Director of CLIP, Fordham Law School

Susan Scafidi, Visiting Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

Rebecca Tushnet, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Jay Westermeier, Of Counsel, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

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The symposium is open to the public.
Registration fee: $30 per person; $140 per person for practitioners who wish to earn CLE credits.

• Reduced rates available for academics, nonprofit/government employees, and Fordham Law alumni.
• Review Fordham Law's financial hardship policy for this symposium.

All events take place at Fordham Law School in the McNally Amphitheatre.
140 West 62nd Street | New York, NY 10023