Law School to launch intellectual property fellowship program

Duke Law School will use major grants from the Center for the Public Domain and the Ford Foundation to establish a fellowship program in Intellectual Property, the Public Interest and the Public Domain. The program will bring outstanding scholars and lawyers to the Law School for one year to work on a series of projects related to the public interest, the public domain and intellectual property policy.

Each semester, the fellows, in cooperation with Professor James Boyle, will teach a seminar on "Intellectual Property, the Public Domain & Free Speech". The Law School has formed relationships with a number of public interest groups that work on Internet policy, free speech and intellectual property issues. Students, under the supervision of the fellows, will work with the groups doing research and writing on such topics as Internet, copyright and trademark issues, telecommunications, international intellectual property agreements and pharmaceutical patents.

Two fellows will come to Duke in Fall 2001. They are:

William J. Friedman, a senior legal adviser to Federal Communications Commissioner Gloria Tristani. His interests include privacy and free speech issues, digital intellectual property issues and bit stream copyright protection, among other topics.

Daphne Keller, a scholar and lecturer who has taught at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Wolfson College Oxford and at Cardozo Law School, where she taught an intensive mini class on digital intellectual property. She is the author of "Metainformation, Technical Devices, and Self-Regulation: Parental Control in a Converged World," (with Stefaan Verhulst) and is currently clerking on the Alaska Supreme Court.

• Duke Law School's Intellectual Property Team
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