[TriLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: Information Ecology Lecture Series 9/19/2003

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Sep 8 23:42:31 EDT 2003


Information about events coming up at the Law School that it would be
terribly useful to attend if you're interested in Intellectual Property
and copyright rules on the internet today.

Tell your friends, plan to be there. When the Law School has done these
things in the past they have always been well worth attending.

Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain is starting
a lecture series on "The Information Ecology." This series will feature
presentations by scholars from Duke and around the country: the subject
matter is broad, going well beyond intellectual property into a number
of related areas - such as innovation economics, internet and
communications policy, cyberlaw, genomics, and a variety of other
subjects.  We will invite colleagues from around Duke and from our
neighboring universities to attend - the events will also be open to
students, of course.  Lectures will typically be at Duke Law School on
Friday afternoons, around 4pm, to be followed by discussion and a nice
reception.  

The first lecture will be on the economic irrationality of internet
copyright rules - September 19th, at 4pm.  (Details below.)  Subsequent
lectures being planned deal with proposals to transform the economics of
the digital music distribution system, empirical research on the effects
of patents on innovation, the possibility of using "distributed
networks" for genomic research and other forms of creative activity, and
the paradoxes of privacy policy.  

We are particularly interested in using these events to build
connections between scholars across disciplines and between
universities.  Duke has an extraordinary collection of people working on
information economics, intellectual property, internet policy and so on
- but all too often they don't know of each other's existence.

Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might
be interested.  
To be put on a LOW TRAFFIC e-mail list which will announce the lectures,
send an e-mail to Eileen Wojciechowski at WOJCIECH at law.duke.edu. 

We apologize if you have received this announcement from multiple
sources.


For details of the first lecture, see below:
________________________
Information Ecology Lecture Series: Professor James Boyle discusses
Creative Commons 

"'We Don't Provide That Service': the Economic Irrationality of
Copyright Rules on the Internet"
 
Date: 09/19/2003 
Time: 4:00 p.m. 
Location: Room 3043, Duke Law School (Corner of Science Dr. & Towerview)
Contact: jenkins at law.duke.edu 

Duke Law Professor James Boyle will present the inaugural talk in an
interdisciplinary lecture series on "The Information Ecology." Professor
Boyle's lecture is entitled "'We Don't Provide That Service: the
Economic Irrationality of Copyright Rules on the Internet." Boyle will
be discussing Creative Commons, www.creativecommons.org, a digital
non-profit organization he helped to found, which is devoted to
expanding the range of creative work available for others to share and
build upon, through the use of innovative licenses that can be read by
machines, people and lawyers. Professor Boyle recently won the 2003
World Technology Award for Law for his work on protecting the
intellectual ecology of the public domain, and has played an
instrumental role in creating a public interest movement around
intellectual property and public domain issues. 

This lecture is open to all. It will be followed by a reception on the
3rd floor loggia of the law school, and is sponsored by Duke's Center
for the Study of the Public Domain. Please feel free to forward this
announcement to colleagues and students who are working on, or are
interested in, these issues, and to anyone else who may be interested in
attending. To help us get a sense of the numbers for the event, it would
be much appreciated if you could RSVP to Eileen Wojciechowski at
WOJCIECH at law.duke.edu. Thank you.


Thanks
-sv





More information about the TriLUG mailing list