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The Tech Trends series is an exploration of the issues and trends in technology teaching and learning. The events are free and open to all faculty, staff, students, and the public. The series is sponsored by the Information Technology Committee, the Office of the Executive Vice President and the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

First external speaker of the year is Friday, January 26, 2007, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m., E. Michael Harrington,
Copyright Issues in YouTube, Second Life and Other Adventures in the Metaverse: Music, Law, Politics and Higher Education

In this presentation, Harrington, a professor of intellectual property
and music business, and consultant in numerous high profile copyright
infringement cases, will discuss the counterinfluences of technology
and law upon music, video and artistic expression on the Internet, as
well as the new and daunting issues facing YouTube, Second Life, and
Google.

He will analyze issues involved in specific new lawsuits brought
against YouTube, Google and the online universe/metaverse, 'Second
Life' as well as his own work as expert witness for the defense in
lawsuits involving parody, mashups and 'live' mashups on the
Internet. These include the Jib Jab parody, 'This Land Is Your Land,'
D.J. Danger Mouse's mashup of the Beatles' 'White Album' and Jay-
Z's 'Black Album' [The 'Grey Album'], and Beatallica's 'live mashups'
of the Beatles and Metallica.

He will also discuss his work in assisting the plaintiffs in a broad
coalition of public interest groups in ALA et v. FCC, a successful
lawsuit that stopped the Federal Communications Commission from
mandating a policy that would have given copyright owners and the
federal government veto power over the development of new technologies
for computer and television tuners.

Finally, he will conclude with an analysis of the likely effects of
the new 110th Congress upon technology, artistic expression, education
and law, and an analysis of the likely role of the Federal
Communication Commission (FCC) in new Internet and technology issues.

E. Michael Harrington is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and
Music Business at Belmont University in Nashville. He has been
interviewed by the New York Times, CNN, Bravo, Associated Press, the
TODAY Show, NPR, Canadian Public Radio, PC Magazine, Billboard, USA
Today, Salon, XM Radio, Rolling Stone, Money Magazine, Investor's
Business Daily, Mergers & Acquisitions, People Magazine, Life
Magazine, Readers' Digest, Washington Times, Miami Herald and others.
He has worked as expert witness in hundreds of music copyright
infringement matters involving artists such as the Dixie Chicks, Woody
Guthrie, Steve Perry, Keith Urban, Ne-Yo, Collin Raye, Tupac Shakur,
George Clinton, Avril Lavigne, Madonna and Patty Loveless and others,
and delivered more than 100 lectures to more than 70 law schools,
organizations and universities throughout North America including
Harvard Law, Yale Law, the Boston Bar Association, the European Film
Commission, the Experience Music Project, NEMO Future of Music
Coalition, Miami, Berklee, NYU, UCLA, McGill, Carleton, Eastman, Emory
and others.