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- Musicians in Copyright's Federated Domain
October 30, 2007 - Michael Carroll is Professor of Law at Villanova University, where he focuses on intellectual property and the law of the Internet. Carroll also serves on the Board of Directors of Creative Commons, www.creativecommons.org
This event is hosted by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain as part of the Information Ecology Series.
- March, 2007
- Copyright Liberties
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
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.
- February, 2006
- James Bessen. The Empirical Evidence on Patents: Do they work like property?
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.
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