3233 East Bay Drive
Suite 101
Largo, Florida 33771
Phone: (727) 531-1111
Fax: (727) 531-5088
e-mail: ellislaw@alum.mit.edu
Attorney at Law - ACM Speaker
David R. Ellis
David R. Ellis
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Attorney at Law 3233 East Bay Drive Suite 101 Largo, Florida 33771 Phone: (727) 531-1111 Fax: (727) 531-5088 e-mail: ellislaw@alum.mit.edu |
(posted 11/98)
Biographical Information
David Ellis is an attorney specializing in computer and cyberspace law; copyrights,
trademarks,
trade secrets, and intellectual property law; corporation and business law; entertainment
and arts
law; and franchise, licensing and contract law. A graduate of M.I.T. and Harvard Law
School,
he is a member of the Florida and New York Bars and the American Bar Association's
Sections
on Science and Technology and Intellectual Property Law. He is also a member of the
Computer
Law Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Association for Computing
Machinery, Tau Beta Pi, and the Florida Bar's Computer Law Committee and Sections on
Business Law and Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law, of which he is Chairman of the
Intellectual Property Law Committee. Dave has spoken on Computer and Cyberspace Law,
Computer Contracting and Software Protection, Intellectual Property Law, and Entertainment
and
Arts Law, to a variety of groups throughout Florida, the Southeast, and Puerto Rico,
including the
Universities of Florida, South Florida, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Clemson, Furman, Western
Kentucky, and Interamerican University (P.R.), DPMA, ACM, the Florida Bar, and business,
professional and comput er users groups. He is a frequent lecturer at Continuing Legal
Education
seminars and has written articles on Intellectual Property and Computer and Cyberlaw for
numerous publications including "Data Management", "Lawyers Weekly
USA", and "The Florida
Bar Journal". For many years he wrote a monthly column on Computer Law for "The
Data Bus",
Florida's computer and technology journal.
Dave is the author of the book, A Computer Law Primer. As an Adjunct Professor of Law, he
teaches Copyright Law at the University of Florida Law School and for many years taught
Intellectual Property and Computer Law at Stetson University College of Law.
Suggested Lecture Topics
The Law of Cyberspace, Computers, and Technology
This talk focuses on the emerging fields of cyberspace and computer and technology law.
Included are topics such as the law of the Internet, protection of computer software and
technology through copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets, civil and criminal
liability
of users and providers, privacy and ethical concerns, Year 2000 issues, and other legal
topics
pertaining to cyberspace, computers, software, and digital and information technologies.
Each
talk will be tailored to the specific interests of the audience, either in advance or
through
questions and answers during the session.
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