Intellectual Property, Digital Economy Bill, RW Culture – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

The RSA Fellows’ Media, Creative Industries, Culture & Heritage Network (RSA Board approved and open to all RSA Fellows and interested professionals in the sector, irrespective of location).

Edinburgh April 2010 event [@ £10 p/h] open to all, subject to availability, is:

21 April 2010: Digital Economy Bill: Professors Simon Frith and Lilian Edwards (Universities of Edinburgh and Sheffield)

Speakers will address issues of copyright, plus “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, including abnegation of due process, “three strikes and you are out”, site blocking and EU issues, net censorship and so on in what is anticipated to be a very lively discussion. Lilian Edwards, currently speaking on the Bill at events across the UK, is also known for her blog Pangloss. Simon Frith is known for his ESRC Research Programme on Media Economics and Media Culture. Iain Mitchell QC FRSA, who, it is anticipated may well enliven the debate from the floor is Chairman of the Scottish Society for Computers and Law and has been Joint Editor of the E-Law Review. Join us and contribute to the debate!

REGISTRATION – pre-payment required: Please provide full name, address, job title and telephone and email information on a sheet of A4 an send with cheque.

Payment: £10 per head by crossed cheques in favour of “RSA Fellows’ MCICH Network” to Ann Packard, 81 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6RD

Event must be pre-paid: no refunds after 1700 Sunday 18 April re 21 April, with substitutions permitted to 1200 on 21 April.

Event timing: coffee at 5.30pm for event 6pm at Anderson Strathern LLP, Edinburgh, with thanks for their support and use of their offices in Rutland Court, Rutland Square, Edinburgh.

Events conclude c. 8pm after an opportunity to network over wine and nibbles.

Mail cheque for £10 per person payable to “RSA Fellows’ MCICH Network”

Address: c/o Ann Packard, 81 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6RD

Information about the RSA may be found at www.theRSA.org (a charity registered in England and Wales no 212424 and in Scotland no SC037784).