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[Jane Hornibrook <janehornibrook AT gmail.com>]

Hi everyone

Please see press release from InternetNZ below. 

Best
- Jane

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Professor Lawrence Lessig to keynote NetHui

Media Release – 12 April 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3fs7t9n

InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) is pleased to announce that one
of North America’s leading academics will visit New Zealand to deliver
a keynote speech at the inaugural NetHui 2011 event.

Harvard University Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig is widely known in
the global Internet community as a vocal proponent of reduced legal
restrictions on digital copyright, and a  champion of notions of ‘fair
use’ and ‘free culture’.

Among his appointments, he is a founding board member of the
alternative copyright licensing body – Creative Commons – and is a
board member of the Software Freedom Law Center.

NetHui is being held at Auckland’s SkyCity Convention Centre, from 29
June to 1 July. Professor Lessig will deliver his keynote address on
the final day – Friday 1 July.

NetHui will bring together all those involved with Internet issues in
New Zealand in a streamed event format covering Access & Diversity,
Digital Citizenship, Governance & Legal, Government & Openness,
Innovation & Emerging Issues, and Education.

Lessig describes the issues under discussion at NetHui as “critical,”
as they set the stage for New Zealand's contribution to the future of
networked action. “I am delighted and honoured to join NetHui 2011,”
he says.

NetHui 2011 Advisory Board member Judge David Harvey says Lessig is
one of the most influential contemporary commentators on law and the
Internet, and is a dynamic and inspiring speaker.

“Lessig’s seminal work ‘Code is Law’ has influenced theories and
served as a foundation for considerations of Internet governance
issues since its publication. Lessig has also been influential in the
field of digital copyright and the concept of the commons in an
intellectual world,” says Harvey.

NetHui Organiser Richard Wood says securing an academic of Lessig’s
stature is a real coup for NetHui. “Lessig’s focus sits right at the
intersect of law and technology. This is an area that strikes at the
heart of many of the important issues facing the Internet today, and
we are delighted to have him on board.”

NetHui registrations are now open. To find out more about the event
and to register, visit  www.nethui.org.nz .