Preliminary Schedule of Events

Friday, June 27, 2003

2:00-3:00pm Concurrent Panels

Session One: Law and Ethics of Document Retention and Destruction
Professors Judy McMorrow and Robert Bloom, BC Law School

Session Two: Trademarks, Digital Music, and Webcasting Exporting Trademark Confusion
Ann Bartow

Napster: A Case Study in the Ethics of Intellectual Property
Mark Manion

Would Be Pirates: Webcasters, Intellectual Property, and Ethics
Melanie Mortensen

3:00-4:15pm Concurrent Panels

Session One: Issues and Trends in IT Ethics for IS Curriculum
Antonio Drommi, Wendy Norfleet, Ron Kizior, et al.

Session Two: BC Law School Presentation
Professor Fred Yen et al.

4:15-4:45pm Break

4:45-5:45pm Concurrent Panels

Session One: Copyright and Ethics

Copying Computer Programs for Friends
Douglas Birsch

Copyright, Ethics and Teaching in a Digital Environment
Shelly Warwick

Recent Copyright Protection Schemes and their Implications for Sharing Digital Information
H. T. Tavani

Session Two: Property and Ethical Disputes on the Web

Expertise on the Web: Distribution, Deception, and Deflation
James E. Fisher
James F. Gilsinan
Ellen F. Harshman
Frederick C. Yeager

Web Content Ethics
C. Sivakumar

Ethics in Online Auctions
Shouhong Wang

Saturday, June 28, 2003

8:15-8:45 Continental Breakfast

8:45- 9:30 Keynote Address
Professor Jessica Litman, Wayne State University

9:30-10:30 Plenary Session
The Open Source Code Controversy

Ethical Issues in Open Source Software
Frances Grodzinsky
Keith Miller
Marty Wolf

Molecular Biologists as Hackers of Human Data: Rethinking IPR for Bioinformatics Research
Antonio Marturano

The Future of Open Source Code: Let the Market Decide
Richard A. Spinello

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:15 Concurrent Panels

Session One: Topics in Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Computer Ethics through the Handbooks
P. Barroso

The Life Cycle of Computer Ethics
Don Gotterbarn

The Relationship between the Uniqueness of Computer Ethics and its Independence as a Discipline in Applied Ethics
K. Himma

Professional Responsibility and the Emerging Ethics of Software Speech
Robert Plotkin

Session Two: Information Technology and Moral Behavior

Ethical Aide: A Demonstration of a Software Application for Organizing and Teaching Ethics Using the Utilitarian, Deontological and Virtue Ethics Models *(Software Demo and Presentation)
J. Buerck

Toward a Value Laden Discourse of Technological Acceptance: Information Technologies and the Value of Identity
Gaia Bernstein

12:30-1:30 Lunch [The Shea Room, Conte Forum]

1:30- 3:00 Concurrent Panels

Session One: Issues in Ethical Theory and IP Philosophy Intellectual Property Rights in Software: Justifiable from a Liberalist Position? – The Free Software Foundation's Position in Comparison to John Locke's Concept of Property
K. K. Kimppa

Locke and Intellectual Property Rights
Michael Scanlan

Casuistry and Computer Ethics
Kari Gwen Coleman

Session Two: Copyright, the Commons, and Authorship

J.Lo and the Intellectual Commons: An exposition on Copyright Expansion in the Digital Age.
Kathrine A. Henderson

Ideas, Expressions, Universals, and Particulars: Metaphysics in the Realm of Software Copyright Law
Thomas M. Powers

Property, Propriety, and the Digital Public Sphere
Rosemary Coombe and Andrew Herman

Can You Read Me? The Shifting Ownership of Appropriated Texts
Michelle White

3:00-4:00pm Concurrent Panels

Session One: Cybermedicine

E-Health, the Digital Divide, and Distributive Justice
Keith Bauer

Cybermedicine and the Moral Integrity of the Physician Patient Relationship
Keith Bauer

Beware! Uncle Sam Has Your DNA: Legal Fallout From Its Use and Misuse
Marcia J. Weiss

Session Two: A. Privacy and Globalization Issues

Evaluating Technological Solutions to On-Line Privacy Problems Using FIP and HCI Principles
W. A. Berkatt
A. Barnard
L. Pretorius

On Globalization and Information Ethics
Lu Yao-Hui

B. Archaeological Ethics and IP

The Archaeological Record, Archaeological Ethics and Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World
Neel Smith

3:30-4:00pm Break

4:00-4:30pm Wrapup and Concluding Remarks