Join Melissa Levine, U-M Library's lead copyright officer, Jack Bernard, U-M associate general counsel, and Brian Knappenberger, who wrote, directed, and produced The Internet's Own Boy. Knappenberg's film chronicles the story of Aaron Swartz, the information-access activist and Internet prodigy who was targeted by the FBI in a high-profile criminal case involving JSTOR and MIT prior to his suicide. The panel will discuss the the Swartz case and its relevance to libraries and information, both in general and here at the University of Michigan. Moderated by Meredith Lavitt, Director of the Sundance Institute Film Forward program.

On the evening before the panel there will be a free public screening of The Internet's Own Boy at the Michigan Theater at 7 PM.

Presented by U-M Library in conjunction with Sundance Film Forward.

Knappenberger chronicled the story of programming prodigy and information-access activist Aaron Swartz in the documentary The Internet's Own Boy. Swartz left his imprint on the Internet with his development of the basic Internet protocol RSS, his co-founding of Reddit, and his open-access activism.