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Larry to speak at Arts & Labs “Create” June 15, 2011

Larry will be speaking at Create, an event by Arts & Labs, focused on “protecting creativity from the ground up.” The event will take place June 15, 2011 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Larry will speak about pending legislation granting federal law enforcement agencies additional powers to prosecute online copyright infringement and trademark counterfeiting.  [...]

Larry to speak at PII 2011 in Santa Clara, CA

Larry will be participating next week at the annual Privacy, Identity and Innovation conference in Santa Clara, CA.  Larry’s panel kicks off the event on Thursday, and includes panelists from Microsoft, Reputation.com and (formerly) Facebook.  We’ll be discussing “Privacy, Personal Data and Publicness: Where Are We Heading?”, moderated by The Wall Street Journal’s Julia Angwin. [...]

Larry to appear on NPR “Science Friday”

Larry will be a guest on Friday, May 6th on the NPR program “Science Friday.”  The show airs live from 11 AM to 12 PM Pacific time.  Larry will be talking about privacy and technology in the wake of the Apple iPhone flap, Tom Tom’s admission that it gave Dutch police access to traffic data, [...]

Larry to speak on “rogue” websites in DC April 7th

Larry will participate in a Congressional staff briefing on COICA and domain name seizures next week at the National Press Club.  The event, “What Should Lawmakers do About Rogue Websites?”, is sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and TechFreedom. The topic is especially timely.  The Department of Homeland Security continues its legally-dubious seizure of domain [...]

Larry on CSPAN’s “The Communicators”

Larry appeared this week on “The Communicators,” C-SPAN’s weekly program exploring the digital future. Larry spoke with veteran D.C. reporter Peter Slen on a wide range of topics at the 2011 State of the Net Conference, where the interview was taped. Subjects included net neutrality, the Law of Disruption, and the poor fit of emerging [...]

Larry on PBS “Ideas in Action”

Larry appeared along with Lewis & Clark Law Professor Geoffrey Manne on the PBS program “Ideas in Action” this week to discuss The Next Digital Decade.

Larry to speak at two Washington, D.C. events next week

Larry will be in Washington (again) next week for two events: 1.  March 1 – TechFreedom is sponsoring an event to review my white paper on the FCC’s December, 2010 Report and Order on the Open Internet.  The event is free, but RSVP is required.  Commentators include Internet pioneer Dave Farber, Free State Foundation’s Randolph [...]

Larry joins Forbes.com network

I’m pleased to announce that I will be a regular contributor to Forbes Magazine’s high-profile website, www.forbes.com, starting immediately.  Forbes is one of the most-visited websites for news and commentary on business, investing, technology and leadership. I’ll be writing about the increasingly accident-prone intersection of business, technology, and politics, especially as it applies to the [...]

Larry to testify before House Judiciary Subcommittee

Larry has been called as an expert witness by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet to testify on Tuesday, Feb. 15th. Larry’s testimony will address the Federal Communications Commission’s Dec. 23, 2010 Report and Order on Preserving the Open Internet–aka the infamous net neutrality [...]

Larry to speak at Google D.C. “Future Tense” conference

Larry will be speaking next week at Google’s Washington D.C. offices as part of the “Future Tense” series of conferences.  “Future Tense” is a joint venture of the New America Foundation, Slate.com, and Arizona State University. The program, taking place Feb. 3 and 4th, is titled “Here be Dragons:  Governing a Technologically Uncertain Future.“    The [...]