Larry will be speaking at Create, an event by Arts & Labs, focused on “protecting creativity from the ground up.” The event will take place June 15, 2011 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

Larry will speak about pending legislation granting federal law enforcement agencies additional powers to prosecute online copyright infringement and trademark counterfeiting.  Also appearing on the panel are Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Ca) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tn).

Larry will be participating next week at the annual Privacy, Identity and Innovation conference in Santa Clara, CA.  Larry’s panel kicks off the event on Thursday, and includes panelists from Microsoft, Reputation.com and (formerly) Facebook.  We’ll be discussing “Privacy, Personal Data and Publicness: Where Are We Heading?”, moderated by The Wall Street Journal’s Julia Angwin.

The rest of the agenda suggests another insightful and valuable conference.

Larry will be a guest on Friday, May 6th on the NPR program “Science Friday.”  The show airs live from 11 AM to 12 PM Pacific time.  Larry will be talking about privacy and technology in the wake of the Apple iPhone flap, Tom Tom’s admission that it gave Dutch police access to traffic data, and other recent privacy problems.  The show’s website is at http://sciencefriday.com/.

Larry will participate in a Congressional staff briefing on COICA and domain name seizures next week at the National Press Club.  The event, “What Should Lawmakers do About Rogue Websites?”, is sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and TechFreedom.

The topic is especially timely.  The Department of Homeland Security continues its legally-dubious seizure of domain names as part of “Operation in Our Sites” and other efforts, and Congress seems poised to re-consider the COICA bill, which would give the Department of Justice new powers to seize foreign domain names and force third parties, including ISPs, domain name service look-up providers, and credit card companies to block sites deemed to be “rogue.”

While copyright and trademark abuses are significant problems on-line, suspending the U.S. Constitution to fight them is no solution.

Details are available here.  Attendance is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required.

Larry appeared this week on “The Communicators,” C-SPAN’s weekly program exploring the digital future.

Larry spoke with veteran D.C. reporter Peter Slen on a wide range of topics at the 2011 State of the Net Conference, where the interview was taped. Subjects included net neutrality, the Law of Disruption, and the poor fit of emerging technologies and specific regulation.

Larry appeared along with Lewis & Clark Law Professor Geoffrey Manne on the PBS program “Ideas in Action” this week to discuss The Next Digital Decade.