December 3, 2012 10:30AM # What I’m Telling Thursday’s Panelists By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) --- SHARE This morning, I’m gearing up for Thursday’s noon-time [Cato book forum](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=9216) on the Mercatus/​Jerry Brito book, [*Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess*](http://techliberation.com/2012/12/03/new-book-makes-free-market-case-for-copyright-reform/). With the recent [release and withdrawal](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/influential-gop-group-releases-shockingly-sensible-copyright-memo/) of a Republican Study Committee memo on copyright policy, there is even greater [tension around the issues](http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334334/myths-and-facts-about-copyright-james-v-delong) than usual. So here’s a line from the planning email I sent to panelists Jerry Brito, Tom W. Bell, and Mitch Glazier. > Given how hot the issues we’ll discuss tend to be, I’ll emphasize that we’re all friends through the transitive property of friendship. I’ll be policing against *ad hominem* and stuff like that coming from any side. In other words, don’t bother saying or implying why a co-panelist thinks what he does because you don’t know, and because I’ll make fun of you for it. It might be worth coming just to see how well I do with my moderation duties. Whatever the case, I think our panelists will provide a vibrant discussion on the question of where libertarians and conservatives should be on copyright. [Register here now](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=9216). ##### Related Tags [Technology and Privacy](https://www.cato.org/technology-privacy) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).