Cool event coming soon at UCB: <br><br><b>Speaker</b> Adrian Johns (Chicago)<br>
<span> On Media Piracy </span> <b>February
09, 2012</b><br>
<b>Series </b>History and Theory of New Media<br>
<b>Time</b> 5 pm <b>Location</b> 370
Dwinelle <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Perkel</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dperkel@gmail.com">dperkel@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:35 PM<br>Subject: [noise@ischool] Fwd: [Berkeley Center for New Media] Adrian Johns on Media Piracy 2/9<br>To: Noise <<a href="mailto:noise@ischool.berkeley.edu">noise@ischool.berkeley.edu</a>><br>
<br><br><div>Noise:</div><div><br></div>This is a fantastic book and Adrian Johns other work should be on the short list for historical work relevant to a lot that goes on in our building (particularly those of us interested in the relationship between intellectual property, creativity, and commerce).<div>
<br></div><div>Dan<br><div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Nora Liddell</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nora.bcnm@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">nora.bcnm@berkeley.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:58 PM<br>Subject: [Berkeley Center for New Media] Adrian Johns on Media Piracy 2/9<br>To: david Bates <<a href="mailto:dwbates@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">dwbates@berkeley.edu</a>><br>
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Forwarded on behalf of David Bates, and the Berkeley Center for New
Media:<br>
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<b>Speaker</b> Adrian Johns (Chicago)<br>
<span> On Media Piracy </span> <b>February
09, 2012</b><br>
<b>Series </b>History and Theory of New Media<br>
<b>Time</b> 5 pm <b>Location</b> 370
Dwinelle <br>
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<p>Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Katharine
Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Media Piracy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 2011-12, arguments over the "Protect
IP"/"Stop Online Piracy" (SOPA) bills in Congress have reignited
debate about media piracy and its policing. The content industry
has found itself at loggerheads with the digital technology
industry, and both sides have maintained that the implications of
their conflict are fundamental: depending on whom one believes,
either the Internet or the creative economy may face destruction.
Fierce as it has been, the debate has been both too narrow and too
shallow. In fact, these contentions need to be seen as the latest
manifestations of a long-term historical process that has seen
policing and "piracy" pitted against each other. The place where
their conflict has really occurred, moreover, is not in law and
policy but in technology and everyday life. As a result, although
it remains largely invisible to the public, this conflict has
substantially shaped many of the everyday practices that
constitute our culture of information. A reconciliation of the
information society and the good society will therefore depend on
our ability not just to affect legislation like SOPA, but to
understand the history that lies behind such laws and drives them
forward.</p>
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Bio:<br>
Adrian Johns is Allan Grant <span>Maclear</span>
Professor in the Department of History at the University of
Chicago, where he also chairs the graduate program in Conceptual
and Historical Studies of Science. Prior to working at Chicago he
was educated at Cambridge University and taught at Cambridge,
Caltech, and UCSD. He is the author of <i>The Nature of the
Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making</i> (1998), <i>Piracy:
The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates</i>
(2009), and <i>Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of
the Information Age</i> (2010). He is currently at work on a
study of the industry that has arisen to uphold information and
intellectual property worldwide.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>University of California, Berkeley<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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