Center News

Professor James Boyle appointed chairman of the board of Creative Commons
Boyle is a founding board member of the nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to creative works. More.

Cultural Environmentalism @ 10
Collected articles explore the development and expansion of Professor James Boyle's "cultural environmentalism" metaphor over the past ten years. Read the symposium

7 Ways To Ruin A Technological Revolution
If you wanted to undermine the technological revolution of the last 30 years, using the law, how would you do it? Faculty Co-Director James Boyle provides answers at a Google Tech Talk. View the webcast

Synthetic Biology: Caught between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons
Faculty Co-Directors James Boyle and Arti Rai publish article about intellectual property and "synthetic biology" - the attempt to construct new biological functions and systems, starting at the genetic level. Read the article

Comic Books
Center releases comic book exploring the impacts of intellectual property on creativity - specifically, documentary film. Read the book!

International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology
"Systematic and comprehensive analysis from a legal and economic perspective" published by Cambridge University Press

Financial Times New Economy Policy Forum
Faculty Co-Director James Boyle is one of four regular columnists for the Financial Times online-edition's New Economy Policy Forum. On a bi-weekly basis, columnists debate regulatory and legal issues generated by-and also shaping-high-tech industries. (read Boyle's column)

Moving Image Contest
See the winners of the Center's Arts Project Moving Image Contest, which asked for short films exploring the impacts of intellectual property law on creativity (view winning films) (view finalists)

Adelphi Charter
The Economist describes the role of Faculty Co-Director James Boyle in the release by Britain's Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce of theAdelphi Charter, an international blueprint for how intellectual property policy should be made ( read Boyle's Guardian piece about the Charter)

WIPO and the Future of Intellectual Property
Center co-sponsors Geneva meeting on the future of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (read James Boyle's A Manifesto on WIPO and the Future of Intellectual Property)

Open Source Drugs?
The Economist discusses a proposal by Faculty Co-Director Arti Rai and others for an open-source approach to inventing drugs that fight tropical diseases (more)

From Smoke-Free Temples to Technology Trusts Dr. Anthony So joins the Center as Senior Fellow in Science and Health Policy, launches project promoting global access to essential medicines

The IP Boom at Duke Law School
The Duke Law School Magazine has published a profile of the Center's activities, with articles about the work of its Director, Jennifer Jenkins, on the Arts Project, and about co-founder James Boyle's work on the information ecology. Read the whole feature here