{"73992":{"#nid":"73992","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Hosts Town Hall on Music and Movie Downloads","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you could download thousands of dollars worth of music and movies for free with a few keystrokes, would you do it? That\u0027s the quandary college students across the country are facing. Given high-speed Internet access and a thin wallet, many students are taking a bite at the apple and copying music and video files to their computer without paying the artist or the production company.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is hosting, \u0022The Download: Free For All?\u0022 a panel discussion on the ethical and legal issues of file sharing joining students with representatives from the recording industry, file-sharing advocates and experts in copyright law. The event takes place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, at Georgia Tech\u0027s Robert Ferst Center for the Arts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs many as a 1,000 participants are expected to attend the discussion, which will cover such areas as the financial costs and benefits of file sharing, its effects on music and movie sales, copyright law and John Doe lawsuits against file sharers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFeatured on the panel is Linda J. Zerkelbach, associate counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Zerkelbach has played a key role in the industries litigation against music downloaders and the U.S. Supreme Court case MGM v. Grokster. The court heard oral arguments earlier this week on the case that could decide whether software distributors can be held liable for illegal acts committed with their products. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event will be broadcast on WREK, 91.1 FM.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPanelist include:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tLinda J. Zirkelbach, Recording Industry Association of America,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLinda J. Zirkelbach is Associate Counsel of Legal Affairs, for the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. The RIAA\u0027s more than 350 members create, manufacture or distribute more than 90% of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the RIAA since early 2003, Ms. Zirkelbach has been critical to the shaping of music piracy litigation.  She has played a key role in many matters including: the thousands of lawsuits filed against individual infringers, the U.S. Supreme Court appeal in the Grokster secondary liability case, an enforcement program to address CD piracy at the retail level, litigation against CD plants pressing illegal product, and various other cases.  She has also worked on numerous amicus briefs regarding copyright issues important to the industry.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tAdam Toll, BigChampagne,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAdam Toll is the co-founder of BigChampagne, the leading provider of information about popular entertainment online. BigChampagne measures activity on P2P networks, gathering information about online searches and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nshared files. BigChampagne combines these data with information from other sources (radio airplay, retailers, \u0022legitimate\u0022 download services) and provides statistical analysis of this information to its customers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tJon Bonus, Owner of Bonus Records\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tCorrine Lee, Bass\/Keys\/Vocal for the Athens, Ga band Snowden.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe moderator of the event will be Brannon D. Anthony, intellectual property specialist from the law firm of Lord, Bissell \u0026amp; Brook, LLP.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Download: Free for All?\u0022 is produced by Georgia Tech\u0027s Honor Advisory Council, the Dean of Students office and the Office of Information Technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is hosting, \u0022The Download: Free For All?\u0022 a panel discussion on the ethical and legal issues of file sharing joining students with representatives from the recording industry, file-sharing advocates and experts in copyright law. The event takes place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, at Georgia Tech\u0027s Robert Ferst Center for the Arts.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Features industry reps and file sharing advocates"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2005-04-01 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:27","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73993":{"id":"73993","type":"image","title":"Campanile","body":null,"created":"1449178037","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:17","changed":"1475894683","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:43"}},"media_ids":["73993"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}