Legal Summit for Software Freedom at Columbia Law School

LEGAL SUMMIT FOR SOFTWARE FREEDOM AT COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

Oct. 12 Event Brings Together Prominent Lawyers of Free and Open Source Software Community and
Provides Free Legal Education to  Public

Press contact:
Jim Garrison
Public Relations Coordinator
Software Freedom Law Center
+1-212-461-1910
garrison@softwarefreedom.org

October 8, 2007 (NEW YORK) - The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal
services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), will host a Legal Summit for
Software Freedom on Friday, October 12, at Columbia Law School.

``We intend to bring together leading attorneys in the Software Freedom community to discuss
matters of mutual interest and concern,'' said Eben Moglen, Executive Director of SFLC and
Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia Law School.

WHAT: Legal Summit for Software Freedom

WHEN: Friday, October 12, 2007, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. EST

WHERE: Columbia Law School, William and June Warren Hall, Room 107, 1125 Amsterdam Ave., between
115th and 116th Streets, Manhattan, New York. Via subway: #1 train to 116 Street
(Broadway)/Columbia University.

SPEAKERS: Eben Moglen, Dan Ravicher, Richard Fontana, Matt Norwood, Karen  Sandler and James
Vasile, each of whom are attorneys at SFLC. Topics include licensing, copyrights and patents, and
corporate issues related to Software Freedom. Continuing Legal Education credit for New York is
available to those who pre-register.

The Summit is free, but pre-registration is requested. More information, including how to register,
is available at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/summit/.

The Software Freedom Law Center -- directed by Eben Moglen, one of the world's leading experts on
copyright law as applied to software -- provides legal representation and other law-related
services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software. The Law Center is dedicated to
assisting non-profit open source developers and projects.

Columbia Law School, founded in 1858, stands at the forefront of legal education and of the law in
a global society. Columbia Law School joins traditional strengths in international and comparative
law, constitutional law, administrative law, business law and human rights law with pioneering work
in the areas of intellectual property, digital technology, sexuality and gender, and criminal law.

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