11/1 Aram Sinnreich lecture at NYU

[Hannah C.]

The first open Computers and Society lecture for fall 2012 will be on Thursday from 3:30pm-4:45pm in room 109, 251 Mercer Street (Courant buildint).

Aram Sinnreich will discuss his upcoming book, "The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry’s War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties"

Details:

Speaker: Aram Sinnreich, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies

Topic: "The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry’s War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties"

Address: 251 Mercer Street, room 109

Time: 3:30pm-4:45pm

Date: November 1, 2012

BLURB:

In the name of combating "digital piracy," the music industry and its allies have spent billions of dollars to lobby for stronger copyright laws, shuttered hundreds of promising businesses, and sued tens of thousands of American internet users. Rutgers University Media Studies Professor Aram Sinnreich investigates the rationale behind these decisions, and explores their implications for free speech, civil liberties, and market innovation, in his soon-to-be published book, The Piracy Crusade. Ultimately, he argues, we are squandering our best hopes for a functional democracy and a thriving marketplace in the 21st Century in order to chase a phantom in an unwinnable war. Instead, we must focus on new laws, policies and economic models that reward and thrive on the free sharing of information in cyberspace and beyond.

BIO:

Aram Sinnreich is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies. Sinnreich's work focuses on the intersection of culture, law and technology, with an emphasis on subjects such as emerging media and music. He is the author of two books, "Mashed Up" (published in 2010), and "The Piracy Crusade" (to be published in 2013), and has written for publications including the New York Times, Billboard and Wired. Prior to coming to Rutgers, Sinnreich served as Director at media innovation lab OMD Ignition Factory, Managing Partner of media/tech consultancy Radar Research, Visiting Professor at NYU Steinhardt, and Senior Analyst at Jupiter Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Southern California, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.