The History and Future of the Book: Digital Copyright
Ok, maybe not as bloodthirstingly exciting as a WWF cage match, But pretty close!
On the 14th of April 2005, Cornell University hosted a debate between an EFF staffer (Fred Von Lohmann), a copyfighting academic (Siva Vaidhyanathan), and legal heads of the RIAA (Cary Sherman), MPAA (Fritz Attaway), Napster II (Avery Kotler) and NBC/Universal (Alec French). The three-hour debate raised numerous issues not only to do with peer-to-peer filesharing, but also with the history of expression, with the rights of publishers and distributors, with those of writers and readers, viewers, and listeners, and with the potential futures for digital texts. You can download the whole thing as audio or video.
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