The Brinternet: A conversation with futurist and science fiction author David Brin and Professors Jane Bambauer, Mark Lemley, and Eugene Volokh, moderated by Professor Ted Parson

When: September 18, 2020 2:00pm to 3:00pm

University of Arizona TechLaw and UCLA Law's AI Pulse Project present: The Brinternet: A conversation with futurist and science fiction author David Brin and Professors Jane Bambauer, Mark Lemley, and Eugene Volokh, moderated by Professor Ted Parson. 

Is the dominant advertising-supported business model for internet news and opinion unsustainable? In a pair of essays published on Evonomics, David Brin says yes. But alternative models, including subscriptions and paywalls, also increasingly appear unrealistic for most apps and content producers. Can micropayments (in the 1-to-5-cent range) solve this problem?

Panelists:
David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international best-selling novels include "The Postman", "Earth," and recently "Existence." His nonfiction book about the information age – "The Transparent Society" – won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association.

Jane Bambauer is a Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. Prof. Bambauer's research assesses the social costs and benefits of Big Data, and questions the wisdom of many well-intentioned privacy laws.

Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. Prof. Lemley teaches intellectual property, patent law, trademark law, antitrust, the law of robotics and AI, video game law, and remedies.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and an academic affiliate at the law firm Mayer Brown LLP. He teaches First Amendment law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic, and has taught copyright, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy.

Edward A. (Ted) Parson (Moderator) is the Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law, faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and the director of the AI Pulse Project at UCLA School of Law.


Audience: All
Audience size: Medium (51-100)

Where

Campus: Virtual

Address

Virtual
Tucson , AZ
United States
Arizona US

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Contacts

Bernadette Wilkinson James E. Rogers College of Law

Requests for disability-related accommodations should be directed to the event's primary contact: Bernadette Wilkinson