Don't Download This Panel (2008 EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conf. Plenary Session)

Plenary Session, 2008 EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference. The attention of—and on—higher education has been focused on defensive measures to curb illegal file sharing. But the focus on higher education occurs in the context of a much larger national debate about the appropriate role of copyright and intellectual property in cyberspace. Simultaneously, myriad new business models and delivery options for online digital entertainment are being tested. What are institutions of higher education doing to curb illegal file sharing? What are the issues in the larger copyright debate? And what is the vision of the entertainment industry for offering digital entertainment online? A panel of distinguished experts - Greg DePriest (NBC Universal), Kenneth C. Green (The Campus Computing Project), and Fred von Lohmann (Electronic Frontier Foundation) - discuss these and other pertinent issues in the peer-to-peer file sharing debate.