<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 41.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 41.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><a name="msg-f:1487954133647975233_Copyright"></a>2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Basics of Copyright and Software Intellectual Property</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br><i>Daniel Dardani</i><br>Tues Jan 13, noon – 1:45 pm<br>Room 3-133<br><br>Ever wanted to pen a novel or code a video game?</span><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 41.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe you are an artist or architect? <br><br>Copyright law affects musicians, photographers, and software developers alike. As such, copyrights offer unique and fun protection for your works of authorship created while at MIT. <br><br>Join Daniel Dardani, Technology Licensing Officer and IP Coordinator of MIT’s Game Lab for an overview of Copyright law and issues, including its history, use, and relevance to the MIT Community as one form of intellectual property. Daniel will explore the nature of originality, doctrine of fair use, how copyrights function in the digital age, and more. All are welcomed. Please register at:<a href="http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents" target="_blank" style="color: purple;">http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents</a> or email <a href="mailto:kmkhalil@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="color: purple;">kmkhalil@mit.edu</a> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 41.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>