Information about events coming up at the Law School that it would be terribly useful to attend if you're interested in Intellectual Property and copyright rules on the internet today.
Tell your friends, plan to be there. When the Law School has done these things in the past they have always been well worth attending. Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain is starting a lecture series on "The Information Ecology." This series will feature presentations by scholars from Duke and around the country: the subject matter is broad, going well beyond intellectual property into a number of related areas - such as innovation economics, internet and communications policy, cyberlaw, genomics, and a variety of other subjects. We will invite colleagues from around Duke and from our neighboring universities to attend - the events will also be open to students, of course. Lectures will typically be at Duke Law School on Friday afternoons, around 4pm, to be followed by discussion and a nice reception. The first lecture will be on the economic irrationality of internet copyright rules - September 19th, at 4pm. (Details below.) Subsequent lectures being planned deal with proposals to transform the economics of the digital music distribution system, empirical research on the effects of patents on innovation, the possibility of using "distributed networks" for genomic research and other forms of creative activity, and the paradoxes of privacy policy. We are particularly interested in using these events to build connections between scholars across disciplines and between universities. Duke has an extraordinary collection of people working on information economics, intellectual property, internet policy and so on - but all too often they don't know of each other's existence. Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested. To be put on a LOW TRAFFIC e-mail list which will announce the lectures, send an e-mail to Eileen Wojciechowski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We apologize if you have received this announcement from multiple sources. For details of the first lecture, see below: ________________________ Information Ecology Lecture Series: Professor James Boyle discusses Creative Commons "'We Don't Provide That Service': the Economic Irrationality of Copyright Rules on the Internet" Date: 09/19/2003 Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: Room 3043, Duke Law School (Corner of Science Dr. & Towerview) Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Duke Law Professor James Boyle will present the inaugural talk in an interdisciplinary lecture series on "The Information Ecology." Professor Boyle's lecture is entitled "'We Don't Provide That Service: the Economic Irrationality of Copyright Rules on the Internet." Boyle will be discussing Creative Commons, www.creativecommons.org, a digital non-profit organization he helped to found, which is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to share and build upon, through the use of innovative licenses that can be read by machines, people and lawyers. Professor Boyle recently won the 2003 World Technology Award for Law for his work on protecting the intellectual ecology of the public domain, and has played an instrumental role in creating a public interest movement around intellectual property and public domain issues. This lecture is open to all. It will be followed by a reception on the 3rd floor loggia of the law school, and is sponsored by Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Please feel free to forward this announcement to colleagues and students who are working on, or are interested in, these issues, and to anyone else who may be interested in attending. To help us get a sense of the numbers for the event, it would be much appreciated if you could RSVP to Eileen Wojciechowski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. Thanks -sv -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
