Chauncey, Sounds like a great idea. I hope you would be able to get international representation, because even with the world treaties around there are many nuances to IP in different countries and regions of the world.
A stray collection of thoughts it would be interesting to hear more about: - the role of provenance and prior art (particularly in our transient Web world) - panelists' experience: whether precedent law tends to hold sway when fights break out - whether "complying with rights is your problem" and "we own everything you post" clauses really stand up (frequently part of social/Web 2.0 terms of use) - is 'fair use' at risk, expanding, or just alive and well? - data rights, with the growing use of mashups, scraping, and 'free' data sources - rights toward components of a page/design, as different from fully composed work - current interpretations of "work for hire" If you do get something organized for IxDA conf, I would love to see a straw poll for how many people think actively about IP as part of their working practices - is it arcane, or a conscious reality? Duane Degler > -----Original Message----- > Message: 34 > Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 06:55:25 -0400 > From: "Chauncey Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Legal Questions for a possible conference > panel on Intellectual property > To: "Andrei Herasimchuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: IxDA Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi, > > This is a lively discussion. I'm on the CHI2009 conference committee > for usability and user experience and I'm proposing a panel with IP > lawyers to discuss patents and other issues that are relevant to > designers and usability practitioners. Aside from the issue of > patents, I would be curious what other legal questions this group has > beyond the debate about patents. For example, there are many > copyright issues like the use of thumbnail images in products and for > usability practitioners there are issues around the use of sweepstakes > as incentives for questionnaires. There are issues around the rights > of artists and visual designers (strong in Europe anda few few states > in the USA) and issues with those complex NDAs we ask people to sign. > What about fair use? > > So, I can't promise that the legal panel will get accepted (safe > harbor statement ), but I think that there are many issues and > controversies that would be of interest so if you want to post legal > questions here or send them to me offline, that would be great. I'll > use those to help generate the proposal with some savvy IP lawyers who > work in software. > > Is there a date for an IxDA conference? I would be happy to organize > something for that as well. Patent law is changing and copyright is > still catching up with electronic media and every now and then > questions pop up about the legality of non-competes (not allowed in > CA, but in most other states they are legal for up to 2 years). > > Thanks, > Chauncey ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
