MISC> Luminary Lectures @ Your Library present Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan 5/9/03

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Luminary Lectures @ Your Library present Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan 5/9/03

Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan will be presenting a lecture entitled, "The
Anarchist in the Library: The Moral Panics over Copyright and Free Speech"
at the Library of Congress on Friday, May 9th, from 10:30am-12:00pm in
Dining Room A on the 6th floor of the Library of Congress' James Madison
Building, located at First Street and Independence Avenue S.E., Washington,
D.C. Seating at this event will be limited to 80, so please allow time to
arrive early. No reservations are necessary. All lectures are free and open
to the public. This lecture will also be broadcast live via the Internet at
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/vaidhyanathan.html on the morning of
the lecture, EST, and will be viewable with Real Player software.

Dr. Vaidhyanathan is an Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication at
New York University.

Description of the lecture: Peer-to-peer networks have existed as long as
gossip and word-of-mouth advertising--but with the rise of electronic
communication, they are suddenly coming into their own. And they are
drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much
of the culture and politics of our century, from file-sharing websites like
Gnutella to private edits of Star Wars to the neo-Nazi concept of
'leaderless resistance.' On one side, trying to maintain control of
information--and profits--are legislators, judges, cabinet officers,
entertainment conglomerates, and multinational corporations. On the other
side, trying to liberate information, are educators, computer programmers,
civil libertarians, artists, consumers, and dissidents under all sorts of
regimes. Vaidhyanathan draws upon examples ranging from ancient religions
to open-source software to show how this battle will be one of the defining
fault lines of twenty-first-century civilization. His radical and original
explanation of the future of information is a warning shot that will
mobilize anarchists and controllers alike.

More about Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan: Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural
historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs:
The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York
University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How Peer-to-Peer
Networks are Transforming Politics, Culture, and Information (Basic Books,
2003). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including The Dallas
Morning News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times
Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, and The Nation. He is a frequent
contributor on media and cultural issues, and his research has been
profiled by programs on National Public Radio, CNN, the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, International Herald-Tribune Television, Pacifica
Radio, Voice of America, and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. After five
years as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in
American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Vaidhyanathan has
taught at the University of Texas, Wesleyan University, and the University
of Wisconsin at Madison. He is currently an assistant professor of Culture
and Communication at New York University.

The Public Service Collections Directorate of the Library of Congress
sponsors this speaker series. This lecture concludes the Luminary Lectures
@ Your Library series this season, and lectures will resume again this
fall. Please check the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library web site for more
information about Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan and about this lecture series:
<http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/>. A webcast of this lecture will
be made available on this site after the event.

For more information, please see <http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/>.
For special assistance, please contact: Alison Morin, Library of Congress,
Phone: (202) 707-1183, Email: amorin@xxxxxxxx

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