Center News

Professor James Boyle at
Google's Zeitgeist Europe 2008
Boyle discusses copyright and moderates a panel on "Copyfight" with Erick Hachenburg, Eric Baptiste, and Gilberto Gil (panel | Q&A). You can also watch Gil's performance. See more videos from Zeitgeist Europe 2008.

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

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)

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)

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

Faculty Scholarship

• James Boyle, The Second Enclosure Movement
• David Lange,  Reimagining The Public Domain
• Arti Rai, Harnessing and Sharing the Benefits of State Sponsored Research (with Rebecca S. Eisenberg)
• Jerome H. Reichman (with Keith E. Maskus), The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods

Student Papers

Student Projects on Database and Digital Copyright Legislation

The CSPD attempts to connect scholarship to policy debates in a number of different ways. Working with Center faculty, three students produced the following comparative analyses on database and digital copyright legislation in the US and EU. (Papers posted in Spring 2005)

• The Empirical Basis for Statutory Database Protection After the European Database Directive
• The European Database Directive In Perspective
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the European Union Copyright Directive: Next Steps

Working with Center Director Jennifer Jenkins, five students produced the following research papers for the Association of Research Libraries. These papers address some of the key legal and policy issues in the contentious area of domestic database protection legislation. (Papers posted in Fall 2004)

• Introduction
• Pre-Feist Protection of Compilations under U.S. Copyright Law
• Protecting Proprietary Information: The Power of Agreement
• The Constitutionality of Database Protection Legislation
• Analysis of the Notion of Time Sensitivity for Database Legislation
• Legal Publishing and Database Protection