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- A Conference in Honor of "No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment" - part 1
March 21, 2009 - Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain presents a conference to honor the recent publication by David Lange and H. Jefferson Powell of No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment.
Session 1: Keynote address by Neil Netanel, professor of law at UCLA School of Law; commentary by Neil S. Siegel, associate professor of law and political science at Duke Law School. Conference web site - A Conference in Honor of "No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment" - part 2
March 21, 2009 - Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain presents a conference to honor the recent publication by David Lange and H. Jefferson Powell of No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment.
Session 2: Keynote address by James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School; commentary by Jerome H. Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law at Duke Law School. Conference web site - A Conference in Honor of "No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment" - part 3
March 21, 2009 - Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain presents a conference to honor the recent publication by David Lange and H. Jefferson Powell of No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment.
Session 3: Keynote address by Garrett Epps, professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law; commentary by Keith Aoki, professor of law at the UC Davis School of Law. Conference web site - A Conference in Honor of "No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment" - part 4
March 21, 2009 - Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain presents a conference to honor the recent publication by David Lange and H. Jefferson Powell of No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment.
Session 4: Authors' responses by H. Jefferson Powell, the Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Divinity at Duke Law School and David Lange, the Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law at Duke Law School. Commentary by Jennifer Jenkins, directory of the Center for the Student of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. Conference web site - January, 2009
- The Opposite(s) of Property: A Workshop
January 17, 2009 - Interdisciplinary workshop investigating the concept of property and its borders, through a variety of lenses. The workshop was prompted by the publication of James Boyle's book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press 2008), but its focus was much wider. Conference web site - March, 2007
- Copyright Liberties
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March 30, 2007 - Information Ecology Lecture Series with Professor Jessica Litman
In this talk, Professor Litman challenges the conventional paradigm of copyright statutory interpretation, under which unlicensed uses of copyrighted works are deemed infringing unless excused.That rubric was never accurate, she argues, and relying on it has distorted our thinking.In particular, it has encouraged us to give short shrift to the core importance in the copyright scheme of reading, listening, viewing, watching, playing and using copyrighted works. For most of its history, copyright law was designed to maximize the opportunities for non-exploitative enjoyment of copyrighted works in order to encourage reading, listening, watching and their cousins.Litman terms the freedom to engage in those activities "copyright liberties", and argues that they are both deeply embedded in copyright's design and crucial to its promotion of the Progress of Science.
Litman is a Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where she teaches copyright law, Internet law, and trademarks and unfair competition. She is the author of the influential book Digital Copyright, and the coauthor with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin of a casebook on Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law. - The Geography of Innovation in the U.S. - A Tale of 280 Cities
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March 7, 2007 - Information Ecology Lecture with Dr. Robert Hunt
Robert Hunt is a Senior Economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia whose research fields include innovation and intellectual property, and economic geography.
In the U.S. inventions are an urban phenomenon. Why is invention concentrated in cities? Why are some cities more innovative than others? This talk will describe some of Dr. Hunt's findings. It is hosted by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain as part of the Information Ecology lecture series. - October, 2006
- Information Ecology Lecture with Professor Justin Hughes
October 23, 2006 - Professor Justin Hughes teaches intellectual property, Internet law, and international trade courses at Cardozo Law School. From 1997 to 2001, Hughes worked as an attorney-advisor in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, focusing on the Administration's initiatives in Internet-related intellectual property issues, Eleventh Amendment immunity issues, intellectual property law in developing economies, and copyright appellate filings for the United States (including the Napster litigation). - February, 2006
- The Empirical Evidence on Patents: Do They Work Like Property?
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February 27, 2006 - Do patents promote innovation and economic growth like property rights do? James Bessen answers this question by reviewing empirical research on patents, including historical research, cross-country studies, estimates of patent value and estimates of litigation costs. This event is hosted by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain as part of the Information Ecology lecture series. - January, 2006
- The Effect of File Sharing on the Sale of Entertainment Products: The Case of Recorded Music and Movies
January 23, 2006 - UNC Professor Koleman Strumpf will discuss his influential analysis of the effects of file sharing on the sale of entertainment products. This event is hosted by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain as part of the Information Ecology lecture series. - November, 2005
- Natural Selection or Intelligent Design? Personal Reflections on the Development of IP Law
November 7, 2005 - Jonathan Band will discuss his perceptions on how intellectual property law has evolved in the courts, Congress, and the international arena. - October, 2005
- The Future of Peer-to-Peer Networks and Digital Music
October 27, 2005 - This lunch panel discussion will examine what the future holds for the digital music market in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision this summer in MGM Studios v. Grokster. - Creative Commons and Authors' Rights
October 24, 2005 - Center for the Study of the Public Domain presents Professor P. Bernt Hugenholtz from the University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law. Boxed lunches will be available for the first eighty people who come to the lecture. - September, 2005
- Democratizing Innovation and Norms-based Intellectual Property Rights
September 22, 2005 - Professor Eric von Hippel of the MIT Sloan School of Management will discuss, "Democratizing Innovation and Norms-based Intellectual Property Rights." Boxed Lunches will be available. - April, 2005
- Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation & The Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
April 14, 2005 - Professor Fisk will present her work examining the rise of corporate ownership of intellectual property in the nineteenth century. This work is based on extensive research into nineteenth century law as well as the practices of several large and small firms, including Dupont, Rand-McNally, and law book publishers, that employed people who created patented and copyrighted works. It argues that the rise of corporate intellectual property necessitates development of an alternative non-property regime to acknowledge and reward innovation by employees. This lecture is open to all, and is sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain as part of the Information Ecology Lecture Series. Boxed lunches will be available for the first sixty people who come to the lecture. - Patenting Life and Its Parts: Ethics and Rights in the Political Economy of Intellectual Property
April 7, 2005 - Since the late 1970s, patents have been issued on living organisms and their parts, including microrganisms, plants, animals, and genes. These developments enjoy strong support in a number of quarters, including the biotechnology industry, university technology transfer offices, and the patent bar, who hold that such patents guarantee to inventors the natural right to the fruits of their labors. However, they have also stimulated widespread dissent in the academy and among patients' rights groups, religious groups, and social activists. Part of the dissent is ethical, a consideration that has no place in U.S. patent law but does explicitly appear in European patent law. Professor Kevles will discuss these and other issues during his lecture. This lecture is open to all, and is sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain as part of the Information Ecology Lecture Series. Boxed lunches will be available for the first eighty people who come to the lecture. - March, 2005
- Enriching Discourse on the Public Domain
March 24, 2005 - Prof. Pamela Samuelson of the University of California at Berkeley presents the Annual Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean and the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. - Collective Action and Proprietary Rights: Promoting Innovation and Access in Health (part 1)
March 4, 2005 - The symposium focuses on cases where proprietary rights on research inputs are posing, or may imminently pose, obstacles to biopharmaceutical R&D. Many of these cases involve diseases that have limited market potential, either because the affected population is poor or because it is small. Hence the need to reduce costs related to licensing, as well as other R&D costs, is particularly acute. These concerns may especially affect genomic innovation, where the ability to "invent around" building blocks of knowledge may be limited. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and the Center for Genome, Ethics, Law and Policy. - Collective Action and Proprietary Rights: Promoting Innovation and Access in Health (part 2)
March 4, 2005 - The symposium focuses on cases where proprietary rights on research inputs are posing, or may imminently pose, obstacles to biopharmaceutical R&D. Many of these cases involve diseases that have limited market potential, either because the affected population is poor or because it is small. Hence the need to reduce costs related to licensing, as well as other R&D costs, is particularly acute. These concerns may especially affect genomic innovation, where the ability to "invent around" building blocks of knowledge may be limited. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and the Center for Genome, Ethics, Law and Policy. - February, 2005
- "Open Source" Biology: The Role of Law
February 17, 2005 - Research in the biological sciences is increasingly borrowing from open and collaborative models prevalent in software and high-energy physics. Intellectual property law will play an important role in facilitating - or perhaps undermining - the emergence of these new models. Professor Arti Rai explores the role of law as well as the larger question of whether "open source" models are likely to advance social welfare. - January, 2005
- Who Won? Announcement and Screening of Moving Image Contest Winners
January 14, 2005 - In 2004, Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain ran an international contest for the best 2 minute movie about the ways that intellectual property affects art-- specifically documentary film or music. We announce and screen the contest winners-- both Judges' Selections and "the People's Choice" from our website poll -- at this special event hosted by Professor James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins. - April, 2004
- FRAMED!! How Law Constructs and Constrains Culture
April 2, 2004 - Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain - February, 2004
- All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News
February 27, 2004 - Information Ecology Lecture series presents Professor James T. Hamilton. - Ending Abuse of Patent Continuations
February 12, 2004 - The Information Ecology Lecture series presents Professor Mark Lemley - November, 2003
- Alternative Compensation Systems for Digital Entertainment
November 21, 2003 - The Information Ecology Lecture series presents Professor William W. Fisher III - Patents: Their Effectiveness and Role
November 14, 2003 - The Information Ecology Lecture series presents Professor Wesley Cohen - Restoring a Public Interest Vision of Law in the Age of the Internet
November 10, 2003 - The Information Ecology Lecture series presents Marc Rotenberg - September, 2003
- We Don't Provide That Service: The Economic Irrationality of Copyright Rules on the Internet
September 19, 2003 - The Information Ecology Lecture series presents Professor James Boyle - March, 2002
- Music and Theft
March 30, 2002 - Technology, Sampling, and the Law Panel 1 - Music and Theft
March 30, 2002 - Technology, Sampling, and the Law Panel 2 - November, 2001
- Conference on the Public Domain
November 10, 2001 - "Commodification of the Public Domain: The Challenge for Science and Innovation" featuring: Arti Rai Paul Uhlir Harlan J. Onsrud Stephen Berry Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss - Conference on the Public Domain
November 10, 2001 - "From Anarchist Software to Peer2Peer Culture: The Public Domain in Bandwith, Software, Content" featuring: Eben Moglen Brian Cantwell Smith Larry Lessig Yochai Benkler - Conference on the Public Domain
November 10, 2001 - "Public Domain Activism" featuring: Caspar Bowden Jonathan Tasini Gigi Sohn Robin Gross Manon Ress Jeff Chester Jennifer Toomey Marc Rotenberg David Bollier - Conference on the Public Domain
November 10, 2001 - "Constitutionalizing the Public Domain" featuring: Yochai Benkler William Van Alstyne H. Jefferson Powell Jed Rubenfeld Larry Lessig - Conference on the Public Domain
November 10, 2001 - "Reimagining the Public Domain" featuring: Julie Cohen James Boyle John Perry Barlow David Bollier - Conference on the Public Domain
November 9, 2001 - "The Second Enclosure Movement?" presented by James Boyle - Conference on the Public Domain
November 9, 2001 - "The History and Theory of the Public Domain: From Cheap Books to the Comedy of the Commons" featuring: Mark Rose David Lange Jessica Litman Carol Rose Elinor Ostrom - Conference on the Public Domain
November 9, 2001 - "The State of the Public Domain: A Report" featuring: Pamela Samuelson Jerome Reichman Paul Uhlir - Conference on the Public Domain
November 9, 2001 - "Creativity, Appropriation, Culture, and the Public Domain" featuring: Mark Hosler Rosemary Coombe David Nimmer Cary Sherman David Lange
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