[sudoroom] Fwd: [noise at ischool] Fwd: [Berkeley Center for New Media] Adrian Johns on Media Piracy 2/9

[Matthew Senate]

Cool event coming soon at UCB:

*Speaker*  Adrian Johns (Chicago)
 On Media Piracy *February 09, 2012*
*Series *History and Theory of New Media
*Time*  5 pm   *Location*  370 Dwinelle

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From: Dan Perkel <dperkel at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:35 PM
Subject: [noise at ischool] Fwd: [Berkeley Center for New Media] Adrian Johns
on Media Piracy 2/9
To: Noise <noise at ischool.berkeley.edu>


Noise:

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).

Dan

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From: Nora Liddell <nora.bcnm at berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:58 PM
Subject: [Berkeley Center for New Media] Adrian Johns on Media Piracy 2/9
To: david Bates <dwbates at berkeley.edu>


 Forwarded on behalf of David Bates, and the Berkeley Center for New Media:

*Speaker*  Adrian Johns (Chicago)
 On Media Piracy *February 09, 2012*
*Series *History and Theory of New Media
*Time*  5 pm   *Location*  370 Dwinelle

Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Katharine Bixby
Hotchkis Chair in English

On Media Piracy

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.


Bio:
Adrian Johns is Allan Grant Maclear 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 *The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge
in the Making* (1998), *Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from
Gutenberg to Gates* (2009), and *Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the
Making of the Information Age* (2010).  He is currently at work on a study
of the industry that has arisen to uphold information and intellectual
property worldwide.

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David Bates****

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Director, Berkeley Center for New Media, bcnm.berkeley.edu ****

Professor, Department of Rhetoric, rhetoric.berkeley.edu****

University of California, Berkeley****

(510) 642-2172****


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