tonight we are pleased to have with us orly lobel, author of "you don't own me. she attended law school at harvard and was a fellow at the harvard center for ethics, kennedy school for government and the center for international affairs. she taught worldwide including paul school at yale and beijing. she is the professor of law at the university of san diego and the author of the award-winning business book. her most recent book you don't own me was described in the new yorker as a hair-raising account of an epic tale in the financial times described it as a real page turner of the decade-long court battle between companies that tell over the ownership of the immensely popular bratz bowls. please join me in welcoming the guests for the evening, orly lobel. [applause] thank you. this is really special for me to be here at the bookstore because i've spent many years as a graduate student here at harvard square and harvard and diversity roaming the shelves and loving it. it continues to impact my research writing and thinking about ethics and market competition and

his act was deliberate but motive unclear they play down terrorism links on the basis of all of the lobel information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident. the attack happens just after lunchtime interim say with many people enjoying some afternoon sun police said the van was used to plow along a two kilometer stretch of sidewalk with no. he just went on the sidewalk he just started eating everybody he had every single person on the sidewalk anybody would it stop everything there's a lady in there i just stopped and they looked the night's went after it again. one by one one by one. within hours of the attack a vigil was held in the sane people here are struggling to make sense of this seemingly sense unless. there isn't any have happened it's happening it's very safe and peaceful place and. i was struck. jessica in a vehicle has been weaponized in the crudest and most indiscriminate sway seven panic on a city streets to ramsay the latest to be added to a tragic list. canadian prime minister justin trudeau has just spoken

deliberate but his motive unclear they sought to play down terrorism links on the basis of all of the lobel information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident but the attack happened just after lunchtime in toronto with many people out enjoying some afternoon sun police said the van was used to plow along a two kilometer stretch of sidewalk with no calf or who or watch was targeted it. just went on the sidewalk you just started dating everybody man here every single person on the sidewalk anybody in israel you would hit the bus stop everything i shouted there's a lady in there that i saw i just stopped and i looked annoyed when after to general this is crumbling up one by one one by one within hours of the attack a vigil was held near the scene people here are struggling to make sense of the seemingly sense unless. they have happened it's happening in tron a very safe and peaceful place and that's why i was struck but yet again a vehicle has been weaponized in the crudest and most indiscriminate way selling panic on a city st

lobel membership but it was the people that wanted to make sure that russia wasn't part of the process either are in nato or in the european union lot an american asian they were they did know along with it all it's intensely politicized and so what is the case because i haven't been given any evidence yet ok but it seems like it's already gone to trial and the same people that brought to trial the jury go ahead patrick yeah it's a curious case imagine the prosecutor makes the accusations against the defendant but won't allow the defendant to see the evidence and is presumed guilty straight out of the gate it's absolutely incredible but you know let's look at this where did this term nova chuck come from and this is really interesting and this is something that's kind of casually glossed over by the media there is no there's very little evidence of any program or anything called nova trucks even in back to the soviet union chemical weapons research and development days so what it is is a g.v. class which is a two three two three zero two two six zero of agents and the reason this term

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lobell after sixty eight years the two koreas are on the verge of signing a peace treaty a donald trump summit is in the works is peace coming to the korean peninsula well it's possible the foreign policy blog and the corporate it's media are less enthusiastic after all conflict is their business model. in the korean peninsula i'm joined by my guest. washing he is a senior fellow at the institute for china america studies also in washington we have john merrow he is former chief of the north east asia division of the bureau of intelligence and research at the u.s. state department as well as author of korea the peninsular origins of the war and in new york we cross to daniel liz our he is an author and freelance journalist who writes frequently about the middle east eastern europe and the us constitution right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate so let me go to you first in washington if you look at the mainstream media and particularly the cable stat

our political correspondent mark lobel is here.n hearing this morning from the foreign secretary. yes, more uk political reaction. the foreign secretary was talking to andrew mark and he says that it is a message to say enough is enough. he was asked if the uk was locked and loaded as they are in america for another attack. he said he hoped it would be enough of a deterrent not happen again, but leaving the door open if there was another chemical attack. but he made one point about the wider war in syria. it is important to understand the limits of what we are trying to do. try to end the war? that's right. this is not going to, and we must be honest, it won't turn the tide of the conflict in syria. one can hope it encourages the russians to get assad to be negotiating table in geneva to get a political process properly going, but that is, as it were, an extra. the primary purpose is to say no to the use of barbaric chemical weapons. he is to say no to the use of barbaric chemicalweapons. he was is to say no to the use of barbaric

comment on breaking news we can now cross live to benoit camp mark senior lecturer in the school of lobelurban and social studies now the o.p.c. w r do and do on a fact finding mission today why do you think the u.s. and its allies didn't wait for at least some initial results from that investigation. investigations and this is not about confirmations it's about strategic and tactical value the timing of it is of course in a sense very un surprising because of course assad's forces have been doing quite well in duma and it's very very clear that in the context of this some kind of redress of some kind of curbing back of assad successes systems of course by russia needed to be done and that's one of the reasons why there was not a sense of waiting for confirmation as to whether there was in fact a chemical attack to begin with now and can't be strikes also make the investigation itself more difficult and possibly hamper it altogether. yes one of the things about these sorts of investigations of course is that they have to take place expeditiously and they of course chemical samples themsel

our political correspondent mark lobel is here. at least eight debate now that the military strikes have taken place. are we likely to see that? we will find out tomorrow. if you look at theresa may's is that the gay and for what she has done, which she outlined yesterday, she did not say that the reason that she sent raf planes in because she had public support, its because she thought it was right thing to do and it was to send a message to the wider world not to use chemical weapons, but she did not consult parliament which is controversial for a couple of reasons. in 2013 david cameron held a similar vote reasons. in 2013 david cameron held a similarvote and reasons. in 2013 david cameron held a similar vote and state and there has been a convention since the iraq war that mps are consulted before military action. i spoke to a couple of this morning, and they were both for the bombings, but maybe there wasn't practically available time to recall parliaments. or the bus had left the station and america and france would have stru

well, a little earlier, i spoke to our political correspondent, mark lobel, and asked him what the chancese of a parliamentary vote taking place. there is a lot of opposition parties calling for a vote. the snp calling foran calling for a vote. the snp calling for an emergency debate which would force a vote. a protest vote at the very least, it would not bind the government but it would expose divisions between some of the mps and their leader. labour has also cold for a vote and they are particularly unhappy, jeremy corbyn is unhappy about what he calls the dubious legal nature of the justification for the strikes that theresa may launched in western syria. particularly by choosing humanitarian grounds, he says that is still legally dubious area. he says he had only countenanced involvement in syria if there was a un authority behind it and some conservatives have said, jeremy corbyn knows that russia would veto that so he has ignored what is going on on the ground in syria, they say. lib dems leader vince cable seems less fussed about the legality, he wa nts less fussed about the legali

our political correspondent, mark lobel, is here.orts of people have said there needs to be a parliamentary vote although it would be retrospective in this case, what are the chances of this happening? not impossible. a lot of opposition parties are calling for a vote, the snp in particular calling for an emergency debate. that would be a protest vote, it would not bind the government but it would expose divisions in several parties between the mps and their leader. labour has also called for a vote and they are especially unhappy, jeremy corbyn, about what he calls the dubious legal nature of the justification for the strikes theresa may launched in western syria. especially by choosing humanitarian grounds, he stays that is still legally dubious. he said he would only cantons involvement in syria if there was a un involvement behind it, but some conservatives have said, jeremy corbyn knows russia would veto that some picnic use of a roaring what is going on on the ground in syria. —— so going on on the ground in syria. —— so they a

there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i've lobel conversation at this time on al-jazeera. no agreement at the un over investigating an alleged chemical attack in syria or whether it even happened. a lot has or seek of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a patch of land for a may shift home we follow some of the thousands of families who fled the democratic republic of congo. a court in myanmar moves forward with charges against two reuters journalists. and i'm alan fischer on capitol hill in washington d.c. where facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg has apologized to senators for a massive data breach which impacted eighty seven million users around the world. and a rival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria have failed to pass at the u.n. security council the u.s. is looking at a military strike to punish syria's president bashar said the rescue workers say dozens of people died in a chemical attack on the town of duma on saturday mike hanna reports from the united na

strikes, saying it was necessary to deter the use of chemical weapons. 0ur political correspondent mark lobels more. he said about the air strike that it's sending a message to the world that enough is enough. he says there is an overwhelming reason why it was the right thing to do in syria. he was asked if the uk was locked and loaded, as they are in america, for another attack. he said he hoped it would be enough of a deterrent not to happen again. again, leaving the door open to a future strike if there was perhaps another suspected chemical weapons attack in syria. but he made one point about the wider war in syria. let's have a listen to this clip. i think it's important to understand the limits of what we are trying to do. this is not... trying to end the war? that's right, andrew. and i think that this is not going to... we must be honest, this is not going to turn the tide of the conflict in syria. one can hope that it encourages the russians to get assad to the negotiating table in geneva, to get a political process properly going. but that is, as it were, an extra. the primary purpo

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then university of san diego law professor orly lobel on creativity and intellectual property in "you don't own me." "new york times" finance editor david enrich writes about a financial scam that impacted millions of people with "the spider network." after that, queens college history professor joshua freeman examines how factory production has impacted the world's social, economic, and political norms in his book behemoth. and finally william rempel talks about business tycoon and movie industry mow gel kirk kerkorian in his book "the gambler." >>> the c-span bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. we recently stopped in sacramento, california, asking folks what's the most important issue in their state. >> right now affordable housing and homelessness are two issues that are critically important to this state for its future. we're losing jobs because we can't afford to have people live here. economic development is suffering so affordable housing is critical to california and the homeless population has just exploded in california and cities are trying to do th

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our political correspondent mark lobel is in westminster for us this morning.l the pm be concerned about public and political support for her decision to take military action? and justifying her decision to send those raf jets to and justifying her decision to send those rafjets to strike targets of suspected chemical weapons factories. theresa may said it was the right thing to do. she said it would deter the future use of these chemical weapons, but as you say, she did not consult mps, which is controversial for two reasons. david cameron did a similar thing, or asked for support for a similar thing and did not get the support. it's not the law, it is a convention that mps are consulted, and jeremy corbyn has questioned the vulgarity of the strikes and said they should have waited until they have the blessing from the united nations. —— the legality. it suggested that because it was targeted, it was justifiable on humanitarian grounds. we don't know what support theresa may will have tomorrow, but we know borisjohnson the may will have tomorrow, but we know b

our political correspondent mark lobel is in westminster for us this morning.e are building up to theresa may presenting arguments in parliament tomorrow. that's right. justifying her case to send those jets into syria to strike at a suspected chemical weapons factory. theresa may didn't say she had the consent of the public but said it was the right thing to do and said she wa nted right thing to do and said she wanted to stop people using chemical weapons and this was a reason to deter them. in not consulting mps before the strikes took place, it's controversial. in 2013 david cameron asa zimmer controversial. in 2013 david cameron as a zimmer question and got a note from parliament. there has been the convention since the iraq war that mps were consulted' take place. although that is not a rule just a convention. billy geller to your what she has done was questioned by labour leaderjeremy corbyn. he didn't think there was an immediate threat. he didn't think it had necessarily saved lives. theresa may should have brought the un in, he said. the government's

lobel of was set to fight at saturday's u.f.c. event in the top tweet on this topic actually came from a toronto councilor called norm kelly he said i'm not condoning khana mcgregor's actions but find yourself a friend that will literally fly in from another continent to defend you he said hundreds of comments and thirty five thousand likes but what are the u.f.c. president think of all this but what happened today. is criminal. disgusting despicable makes me sick and. we as an organization need to make sure that this never happens again ok let's go to something a little less combative now you might think so it's the place time of year if you're of a golf fan the year's first major the masters got underway on thursday and if you play golf you would have a ton of sympathy for sergio garcia equalled the worst ever hold score at all guss the we've condensed fifteen minutes of pain into sixty seconds for you. but you heard of. the east. wing. the group. was. it. was . was was. was you. amateur golfers might have taken some courage fro

our political correspondent mark lobel is in westminster for us this morning.e pm be concerned about public and political support for her decision to take military action? it is worth remembering that theresa may made this decision to send raf jets into western syria to strike at this suspected weapons, chemical weapons ingredients facility not because she had public consent or she knew she had public support but just because she thought was the right thing to do to send a message to the international community that chemical weapons are not prohibited, not allowed i should say, and to stop other people from using them so she didn't consult parliament behind the wood was controversial because her predecessor david cameron in 2013 did so and didn't get approval for a 2013 did so and didn't get approval fora similar 2013 did so and didn't get approval for a similar question that he asked them, and also because there has been a convention since the iraq war in 2003 that mps should be consulted before military action. they don't have to be that it was the convention