SOFTIC Symposium 2003
Open Source Software in Business and Its Legal Issues

Outline

1.   Date:

Wednesday, November 19, 2003
2.   Venue:
"Magnolia Hall", 2nd  Floor, Tokyo Prince Hotel
3-1, Shibakoen 3-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8560, Japan
Phone: 81-3-3432-1111 Facsimile: 81-3-3432-5551
Web: http://www.princehotels.co.jp/link/english/tokyo.html
3.   Application Form "Registration Form"(on the Web)
 

How to register:
Please fill in the "Registration Form"(on the Web) and send a copy of receipt for the fee remittance to SOFTIC by facsimile.The charge for remitting the fee and any other bank charge shall be borne by the participant. Please make the remittance through a bank to thefollowing  account:
Bank:  Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Branch:  Honten Eigyo-bu
A/C Name:  SOFTIC SYMPO
A/C No. :  200-9176905
Address:  1-1-2 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0006, JAPAN
Phone:  81-3-3501-1111

Your registration is completed when SOFTIC receives the on-line registration and the facsimile copy of receipt for the fee remittance and the payment of registration fee is confirmed.

Confirmation Letter:
When your registration is completed, SOFTIC will send you the Confirmation Letter by e-mail. Please be sure to bring the Confirmation Letter and show it at the Registration Desk.
 

Please note that the registration fee is non-refundable.If the registered participant is unable to attend, a substitute is allowed to participate in the symposium.

 
 

Program
 
9:00 Greetings
Katsuro Yamaji, Executive Director, SOFTIC
Prof. Toyohiro Nomura, Professor, Gakushuin University
9:10 Keynote Speech
- Open Source Software and the TRON Project
Prof. Hiroaki Takada, Professor, Nagoya University
9:50  1. Lectures: Open Source Software in Business
1) From the Viewpoint of an Application Developer
Tadayoshi Ohkuma, President, Omoikane, Inc.
10:30 - 10:50    Break
2) From the Viewpoint of a Linux Distributor
Jason B. Wacha, 
Vice President  Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, MontaVista Software, Inc.
3) From the Viewpoint of a Proprietary Software Vendor
Susumu Furukawa, Vice President, Microsoft Corp.
12:10 -13:40  Lunch
13:40 2. Panel Discussion: Legal Issues of the GPL
Moderator:

Norihisa Ogawa, Attorney at Law; Principal Researcher SOFTIC
 

Panelists:

Prof. Thomas Hoeren, Professor, University of Muenster*
Yoshiyuki Miyashita, Attorney at Law*
Naoki Mizutani, Attorney at Law; Principal Researcher SOFTIC*
Prof. Tatsuo Nakajima, Professor, Waseda University; Chairperson, Japan Embedded Linux Consortium*
Hisamichi Okamura, Attorney at Law*
Lawrence E. Rosen, Attorney at Law; General Counsel and Secretary , Open Source Initiative*
Prof. Hiroaki Takada, Professor, Nagoya University*
Jason B. Wacha, Vice President  Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, MontaVista Software, Inc.*
Prof. Jane K. Winn, Professor, University of Washington, School of Law*

1) Introduction to the GPL and its Legal Problems
Hisamichi Okamura, Attorney at Law
14:10 2) Contract Issues and Applicable Law/Jurisdiction Issues
Discussion
- Applicable Law/Jurisdiction Issues (Breach of contract/Infringement)
- Validity of Contract
- Liability for the Deficiency of Software
- Liability for the Suits by a Third Party
- Validity of  "No Warranty" Clause
Others
15:20-15:40 Break
15:40 3) Coverage of The GPL
Technological Introduction -Static/Dynamic Link, Library and Drivers, etc.
Prof. Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University
16:10  Discussion
- Derivative Works Issues
17:30 End of session

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