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Co-Convenors:
     Mitch Kapor (Mitchell Kapor Foundation)
     Pam Samuelson (University of California at Berkeley)

 This Law.Gov workshop will focus in particular on two important
issues:

 1. Privacy. A series of audits of federal appellate and district
court documents has demonstrated that there are significant problems
in application of the rules of privacy to actual practice. In addition
to application of existing rules, this session will examine if new
rules and practices are needed when privacy through obscurity is not
practiced and documents become significantly more widely available.

Session Leaders: Peter Winn (Department of Justice), Chris Hoofnagle
(U. of California)

2. Intellectual property. The issue of copyright over primary legal
materials by public or private actors will be examined in this
session. Despite an apparently clear set of court opinions dating back
to 1824, a number of states assert copyright over statutes and other
materials. This session will examine federal and state policies on
distribution of primary legal materials and will include issues of
incorporation by reference.

Session Leader: Professor Samuelson

Other topics that will be covered in this workshop include an overview
and status report of the Law.Gov process and information about the
National Inventory of Legal Materials.