Copyright law is critical for doing business on the Internet, yet copyright law is based on a world of printed books and movies which are fixed in tangible objects. It is also a "national" law which differs from country to country. How does copyright law need to be changed to meet the new challenges of the Internet?
About the speaker:
Mark F. Radcliffe received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan and later attended Harvard Law School where he was the Notes and Comments Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. After law school, he was law clerk for Chief Judge Howard B. Turrentine of the Southern District of California.
Mark is a partner with Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in the Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. In April 1997, he was named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States by The National Law Journal. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Internet Law, serves on the Board of Directors of the Computer Law Association, as well as on the editorial board of the Computer Lawyer, Cyberspace Lawyer. He is also a country correspondent for the European Intellectual Property Review. He is one of the founders of the South Bay Trademark Lawyers' Association.
His practice is focused on representing high technology and new media clients both in their licensing and financing transactions. He has spoken frequently on multimedia issues: American Association of Publishers, Publisher's Weekly's Multimedia Now! Conference, Web Developers Conference, Seybold San Francisco Conference, National Association of Broadcasters Multimedia World, Game Developers' Workshop and Multimedia Communications. He has also been quoted in the San Francisco Examiner, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Daily Variety on legal issues in multimedia and online services. He wrote the chapter on legal issues in multimedia in Multimedia 2000 published by the National Association of Broadcasters and is the co-author of the Multimedia Law and Business Handbook (1996) and Multimedia Contacts and Internet Legal Forms for Business from Ladera Press.
Contact information:
Mark Radcliffe
Gray Cary Ware and Freidenrich
400 Hamilton Avenue
Palo ALto, CA
(650) 328-6561
mradcliffe@gcwf.com