Keynotes at Poropitia

Dylan Horrocks' slideshows: http://www.slideshare.net/dylanhorrocks

Lawrence Lessig on Kim Hill, Radio NZ (8 November):
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday

Professor Lessig's lecture at the university

Matthew Poole rounds up Professor Lessig's Auckland University lecture over on 'Speaker - a guest weblog by various artists' at Public Address.
If you're particularly interested in copyright there's a long discussion on the forum.

Kim Hill interviews Professor Lessig

Tomorrow morning National Radio plays Kim Hill's interview with Professor Lawrence Lessig (recorded while he was at the LIANZA conference this week)

9:05 Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford University and founded its Center for Internet and Society. A world-leading cyberlaw expert, advocate of free copyright laws, and co-founder of Creative Commons, he is the author of the 2001 book "The Future of Ideas", the 2004 book "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity" and the just-published book "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy." He is currently active in work to reform Congress in the United States. Professor Lessig was invited to Auckland to give a keynote address at the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa conference (2-5November), and a free public lecture at The University of Auckland.

For ways to listen check the National Radio website

Lawrence Lessig

Checked Professor Lessig's blog recently?
His new book will be released on 16 October:
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.

2008 LIANZA conference is your chance to hear this leading thinker. His topic will be "Keeping the outside outside the box: The role of independence in the profession of the librarian, and academy, and the threats that both now face."

"Do not adjust your set"

There have been a few programme changes since the first release of the programme. Some presenters' circumstances have changed and so a few adjustments to times and paper offerings have been necessary.

Note that there will now be a chance for people who haven't had much experience of AnyQuestions to see the service in action. This will include a hands-on try out of ManyAnswers. And there's a session on the te reo version of AQ, UiaNgaPatai. These will be great intros for librarians who have heard a bit about AQ but would like a guided look and questions time, and for those who think they should be promoting the service a bit more.

To fit in with the visit of Professor Lawrence Lessig there's an expanded session on open access to information, including the Creative Commons initiative. Kathy Sheat and Clive Lansink will be giving adjacent presentations on copyright, present and future.

See there's a session on unconferences. It will inspire you to "unconference" all around the conference programme.

The SkyTower dawn tour is filling up fast - register and indicate your interest if you are keen to join it. Other tours and visits will be put into the programme within a day or two. Visits are being offered to Auckland city central library, the business information commons at the The University of Auckland, the NZ National Maritime Museum and the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Maori TV, AUT library, and a corporate law library (Russell McVeagh).

Remember that this conference is designed to give you plenty of networking time and lots of opportunities to have quality conversations with exhibitors. Plan ahead and book in those conversations with the people you want to talk to. The venue is an easy one to get around and so we won't have to spend ages walking about and finding the wrong room.

We are urging presenters to allow plenty of space for audience participation. Be ready to ask, comment, question, debate.

Cheers for now - happy earlybird registering.

Sixth keynote announced: Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago.

Much of his work has focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. His current academic work is in the area of influence and "corruption." Other areas of teaching and writing include constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace.

Lawrence Lessig has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online."

He is the author of Code v2 (2007), Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He is CEO of the Creative Commons project, and is on the board of MAPLight and the Sunlight Foundation. He has served on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He was also a columnist for Wired, Red Herring, and the Industry Standard.

For more, see Lawrence Lessig’s blog: http://lessig.org

2008 LIANZA conference and the Faculty of Law at The University of Auckland are co-hosting Lawrence Lessig’s New Zealand visit. He will make a keynote presentation at the LIANZA conference and will also present an address to a law audience at the university.

Talking of great presentations...

Not to make anyone shy of presenting, but here's a fantastic use of visuals, sound and analysis - Professor Lawrence Lessig the creative commons man ... worth a look if you haven't seen it. Topic is how creativity is being strangled by the law.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187


{Ok, this post was made just at the point we were finalising Lawrence Lessig's attendance as a conference keynote. Yep, admitted.}