Jack Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), is giving a lecture at the Duke Law School on Monday, February 24, 2003. This page is under construction (as of 7pm, Feb 20th) and will serve as a clearinghouse for information amongst those that would like to present a counterpoint in a civil and reasoned manner to Mr Valenti's speech.
The original announcement is here.
Meet via irc at irc.dulug.duke.edu, on channel #mpaa, Friday, February 21st starting at 2pm. All are welcome.
We're drawing up a list of plans to address how we're going to approach any Q&A session. Feel free to read over it and make suggestions.
Here's the current list of questions we plan to ask Mr Valenti. Feel free to read over it as well and make suggestions.
Here's a html version of the IRC log as of 4pm February 21st..
-jdm
UPDATE: The Q&A session went quite well. There will be a webcast available starting Thursday February 27th at noon here.
My response to Mr Valenti's assertion that copyright law and intellectual property culture, and a challenge for him to infuse the MPAA with similar morals.
justin at cs dot nullspam dot duke dot edu