Contact: Darren Johnson, (631) 761-7062

March 12, 2007

Sometimes Spam Isn’t Spam; Touro Law
Looks at a Burgeoning Technology Issue
How to Free Up Good E-Mail – National Conference Calls
in Legal and IT Experts

Central Islip, NY – A first-of-its-kind, national conference clicks on one of the Internet’s most unsavory topics – e-mail spam.

With promises of weight loss, easy college degrees and prescription drugs, spam has threatened to make e-mail unusable, overwhelming connections and servers and swamping inboxes throughout the world. But, as government regulation grows, sometimes good e-mail gets blocked, too. Increasingly, well-meaning senders find their whole organizations virtually blacklisted after an e-mail gone wrong.

Touro Law Center’s Institute for Business, Law and Technology will host “When Spam Isn’t Spam: An Unfiltered Look at Self-Regulation and the Law Behind E-Mail” on Monday, April 30, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in an all-day conference.

The event brings together world-renowned experts on law, policy and technology in this conference for executives, technologists and attorneys highlighting the best practices and most current legal and technical responses to spam.

With an opening keynote from New York Times columnist and technology writer David Pogue, classes given by leaders in the legal and technology worlds, and an afternoon keynote from Prof. David Farber of Carnegie Mellon, internationally respected technology policy expert and publisher of the Interesting People e-mail list, the conference is certain to be both enlightening and informative. Attorneys may receive up to 3 hours of New York CLE credits for the conference sessions. For further information, contact Barbara Hakimi at 631-761-7005 or bhakimi@tourolaw.edu.

From lawsuits alleging improper filtering to felony spam convictions to ISPs having their e-mail blocked because their network is used for spamming, senders and recipients alike are often unsure of their rights, their obligations, and how best to balance law and self-help to get e-mail delivered. This conference hopes to shed light on these issues and offer solutions.

Established by Professor of Law and Director Jonathan Ezor, the Institute for Business, Law, and Technology focuses on the legal ramifications of introducing technology into business – in particular, problems concerning protection of intellectual property, technology transfer, patent applications and licensing agreements. It also offers programs designed for members of the business community to inform them about legal issues arising at the intersection of technology and business. Through law clinics working with existing incubators, the Institute provides low-cost legal assistance to the Long Island business community to facilitate business development and the commercialization of new technology. The research arm of the Institute aims to develop programs to promote the rapid transfer of high technology innovations from the laboratory to the market place.

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