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[Patents] New ACM List on Technology under Regulation

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-------- Original Message -------- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:46:46 -0700 From: "James S. Tyre" <jstyre@JSTYRE.COM>

>Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:55:24 -0700
>From: "Edward W. Felten" <felten@cs.princeton.edu>
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Laws and legal regulations are increasingly affecting what technologists can do. The ACM Forum on Legal Regulation of Technology is a new venue for technologists to discuss how the law is changing their work.

There are many examples of the law's impact on technology. The growth of intellectual property claims, including software and business-model patents, has affected many technologists. Prohibitions on specific technologies, such as those in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, have affected both researchers and practitioners. Applications of antitrust law have shaped the landscape for companies both large and small.

Legal scholars have been discussing these issues for some time, but computer scientists have not been nearly as active in the debate. The forum seeks to bring technologists into the debate. Although we welcome the contributions of legal scholars, the forum belongs to technologists and has a technology-centric view.

Many discussions will necessarily focus on the laws of a particular country, often the United States, but the forum is international in scope. Discussion of any country's laws will be welcome. In light of economic globalization, international treaties, and countries' efforts to harmonize their laws with each other, we expect technologists throughout the world to face many of the same issues.

The forum will follow the model of ACM's successful RISKS Forum, issuing a periodic digest of contributions. Contributions will be chosen by a moderator, and generally will be short but may point to lengthier discussions elsewhere.

The forum is sponsored by ACM. It is hosted by the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. The moderator is Edward W. Felten.

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