SFLC 2017 Annual Conference at Columbia Law School [LWN.net]

Software Freedom Law Center's annual conference at Columbia Law School will take place November 3, in New York, NY. "We have assembled what we think will be a very lively and interesting program, which you can find summarized below. The ideas are free as in freedom, and---as always---attendance, NYS continuing legal education credits, lunch, and the various drinks are free as in beer."

From:		Eben Moglen <moglen-AT-softwarefreedom.org>
To:		lwn-AT-lwn.net
Subject:		SFLC 2017 Annual Conference at Columbia Law School
Date:		Mon, 16 Oct 2017 17:05:39 EDT
Message-ID:		<20171016210746.624DE7007CA@g2.sflc.info>

You are cordially invited to Software Freedom Law Center's Thirteenth
Annual Conference at Columbia Law School on Friday, 3 November 2017.  

We have assembled what we think will be a very lively and interesting
program, which you can find summarized below.   The ideas are free as
in freedom, and---as always---attendance, NYS continuing legal education
credits, lunch, and the various drinks are free as in beer. 

Please RSVP to rsvp@softwarefreedom.org. NYS Bar members seeking free 
CLE credit should contact mrw@softwarefreedom.org for information.  
Those unable to attend can follow the conference live
stream.  Conference details can be found at
<https://softwarefreedom.org/events/2017/conference/>

Hope to see you there.

Cordially yours,
Eben

                                   
                       SFLC-CLS 2017 Conference

                          November 3, 2017

Coffee, Registration, 8:30am-9:10am 

Welcome by Eben, 9:10am-9:30am 

Keynote, 9:30am-10:20am
        Degrees of Freedom, Dimensions of Power
        Professor Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School

Session I : 10:20am-12:05pm,  Licenses and Compliance

        Licenses as Shared Resources
        Presentation by David Levine & Richard Fontana, Red Hat
        Comments by Yochai Benkler
        
        Update on OpenChain: Now We Really Begin
        Presentation by Shane Coughlan & David Marr

        Presentation on Kernel Enforcement Policy

Lunch, 12:05pm-1:35pm 

Session II : 1:35pm-3:20pm, Fintech and FOSS

        Technical Presentation: FOSS Fintech Risk Management
        Professor Sharyn O’Halloran, Columbia Computer Science

        Fintech Development: FOSS and the Financial Industry
        Jim Jagielski, Capital One and the Apache Software Foundation
        Representatives of Ethereum, Hyperledger, Monero
        Mishi Choudhary, SFLC

Coffee Break, 3:20pm-3:50pm 

Session III : 3:50pm-5:30pm, SFLC Presentations

        Review and discussion of FOSS legal issues by Eben and Mishi

        A. Trademark Squatting: A New Problem for Successful Projects
        B. Employment Agreements: Issues Developers are Facing
        C. IRS Changes: New Conditions for Project Organizations

        Closing remarks by Eben