Cory Doctorow, known for many things but notably an author on boingboing.net, will be speaking next Wednesday at UCI.

" Happy Meal Toys versus Copyright: How America Chose Hollywood and Wal-Mart--and why it's doomed us, and how we might survive anyway.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:00-4:20 PM
100 Humanities Instructional Building

A guest lecture jointly sponsored by Film & Media Studies and HumaniTech®. Science fiction writer, blogger, and copyright reform activist Cory Doctorow holds the 2006-2007 Canada Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy.We will extend this course lecture to a limited number of interested UCI faculty, graduate students and staff. If you'd like to attend, please send your rsvp to Beth Pace at epace@uci.edu by May 30."

Link from here.