IP Events at Duke Law School
Week of March 25th, 2002

Duke Law School will host three events addressing distinct areas of intellectual property law. Each of these events will be webcast live - please visit http://www.law.duke.edu/webcast.

On Monday, March 25, William J. Friedman hosts a panel discussion at 2:00 p.m. in Room 3043 of the Law School entitled "The Role of the Federal Communications Commission in the Digital Era." James Boyle, professor of law at Duke Law School, will offer welcoming remarks and will introduce the panelists and their work. Wade Hargrove, a nationally recognized communications lawyer from Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP, will moderate the discussion, which features Friedman, senior lecturing fellow at Duke Law School; Michael Katz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; University of Texas Law Professor Stuart Benjamin; and New York University School of Law Professor Yochai Benkler. For more information, please visit http://www.law.duke.edu/fccfuture/.

On Tuesday, March 26, Professor Benkler will deliver the Second Annual Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property at 12:15 p.m. in Room 3043 of the Law School. This year's lecture, entitled "Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information," will explore the implications of the emerging technological-economic condition on the core values of a liberal democracy. This event is made possible by the generosity of Meredith and Kip Frey, a 1985 graduate of Duke Law School who co-teaches, along with David Lange, the Law School's course on entrepreneurship and the law.

On Saturday, March 30, in Room 3043 of the Law School, Daphne Keller, senior lecturing fellow at Duke Law School, will host a discussion of the ways that law impacts sample-based music. "Music and Theft: Sampling, Technology and the Law" will feature experts on the technological foundations, artistic and cultural implications of sampling, along with experts on copyright law and licensing arrangements, including Duke University Music Professors Anthony Kelley and Scott Lindroth and sampling artist D.J. Spooky. For more information, please visit http://www.law.duke.edu/musicandtheft/.