The Public Domain: A Conference at Duke Law School - Nov 9-11

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                               The Public Domain
                        A Conference at Duke Law School
                        November 9-11, 2001: Durham, NC
                           http://www.law.duke.edu/pd

>Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:32:40 -0400
>From: "Laura N. Gasaway" <laura_gasaway@unc.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <cni-copyright@cni.org>
>Subject: Duke IP conference

   I am posting this for Jamie Boyle at Duke.

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
>From Nov 9-11, Duke Law School is having a conference on the Public
Domain. A number of well-known IP scholars are speaking, as are
prominent theorists of the commons, historians, appropriationist
artists, scientists, activists, constitutional law scholars.. the list
goes on and on. The conference is nearly full up but there are still
a few spaces and all are welcome. Details and a registration form can
be found at http://www.law.duke.edu/pd
Please feel free to repost to other lists.

The Public Domain
A Conference at Duke Law School
November 9-11, 2001

The last fifteen years has seen a rise in both the importance and the
strength of intellectual property rights in the world economy; rights
have expanded in areas ranging from the human genome to the internet
and have been strengthened with legally backed digital fences, lengthened
copyright terms and increased penalties. Is this expansion of
intellectual property necessary to respond to new copying
technologies, and desirable because it will produce investment and
innovation?

Must we privatize the public domain to avoid a "tragedy of the commons," or
can the technologies of cheap copying and global networks actually make
common pool management more efficient than legal monopolies?

Questions such as these have thrown attention on the "other side" of
intellectual property: the public domain. What does the public domain
do? What is its importance, its history, its role in science, art,
and in the building of the Internet? How is the public domain similar
to and different from the idea of a commons? This conference, the
first major meeting to focus squarely on the topic of the public
domain, will try to answer some of these questions in areas ranging
from the human genome to appropriationist art, from the production of
scientific data to the architecture of our communications networks.
For each panel, "focus papers" will be produced by authorities in the
field and made available on the Internet before the event in order to
generate discussion.

_____________________________
James Boyle
Professor of Law
Duke University Law School
Science Drive & Towerview
Box 90360
Durham, NC 27708-0360
919 613-7287 ph.
(Assistant: Eileen Wojciechowski
919 613-7206)
boyle@law.duke.edu
Home Page & Essays http://james-boyle.com

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Laura N. Gasaway, Director of the Law Library & Professor of Law
University of North Carolina, CB # 3385
Chapel Hill, NC   27599
Phone:  919-9621321
Fax:  919-962-1193
Email:  laura_gasaway@unc.edu
   http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/gasaway.htm
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PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE
*	Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering
*	John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a 
former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the 
Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May of 1998, he has been a 
Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and 
Society.
*	Yochai Benkler is Professor at the New York University School 
of Law. He is the Director of the Information Law Institute and 
writes widely about communications policy, constitutional law and 
peer-to-peer production.
*	Stephen Berry is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, 
University of Chicago, and is Home Secretary of the National Academy 
of Sciences.
*	David Bollier is Co-Founder of Public Knowledge, the new 
advocacy organization for the information commons, and author of the 
forthcoming Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth 
(Routledge). Bollier is also Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg 
School for Communication's Norman Lear Center and Director of the 
Information Commons Project at the New America Foundation.
*	Caspar Bowden is Director of the Foundation for Information 
Policy Research, a non-profit think-tank for UK and European Internet 
policy.
*	James Boyle is a Professor at Duke Law School and the author 
of Shamans, Software and Spleens; Law and the Construction of the 
Information Society (Harvard University Press).
*	Jeff Chester is Executive Director of the nonprofit Center 
for Digital Democracy (CDD), based in Washington, DC. Through 
research, advocacy, and public education, CDD works to ensure that 
the digital media serve the public interest. It is currently focusing 
on preserving the Internet's open architecture in the new broadband 
environment, and on the establishment of a noncommercial, interactive 
"online commons" for the free exchange of ideas and information among 
citizens.
*	Julie Cohen is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown 
University Law Center. She teaches and writes about intellectual 
property law and data privacy law, with particular focus on computer 
software and digital works and on the intersection of copyright, 
privacy, and the First Amendment in cyberspace. She is a member of 
the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. 
Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, she was an Assistant 
Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
*	Rosemary Coombe is Canada Research Chair in Law, 
Communication and Cultural Studies at York University in Toronto. Her 
work on law, culture and appropriation is central to a contemporary 
understanding of the commons in intellectual property. Her most 
recent book is The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: 
Authorship, Appropriation and the Law (Duke Press, 1998).
*	Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of 
Law at N.Y.U. School of Law. A former chemist, her research interests 
include intellectual property, civil procedure, privacy, and the 
relationship between science and law. She is currently a member of a 
panel of the National Academy of Sciences exploring the appropriate 
limits of intellectual property rights.
*	Rebecca Eisenberg is the Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor 
of Law at the University of Michigan. She is co-authoring the focus 
paper on biotechnology (with Rai).
*	Anita R. Eisenstadt has served as Assistant General Counsel 
at the National Science Foundation since 1990. She has represented 
the Foundation on a wide range of issues related to intellectual 
property rights and database protection. Ms. Eisenstadt coordinates 
NSF responses to draft legislation and works closely with the Office 
of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology 
Policy on intellectual property issues.
*	Laura N. Gasaway (Lolly) has been Director of the Law Library 
and Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina since 1985. 
She teaches courses in Intellectual Property and Cyberspace Law in 
the law school and Law Librarianship and Legal Resources in the 
School of Information and Library Science.
*	Jane B. Griffith is the Assistant Director for Policy 
Development at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Prior to 
joining NLM, she worked at the Congressional Research Service of the 
Library of Congress for over 25 years, where she was a Specialist in 
Information Technology Policy and held several senior management 
positions. Ms. Griffith also served on special assignments as the 
Interim Director of the National Research Council's (NRC) Computer 
Science and Telecommun-ications Board and as the Director of the Task 
Force on NRC Goals and Operations.
*	Robin Gross is an intellectual property attorney with the 
Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading cyber-liberties 
organization. She specializes in intellectual property policy and 
digital music legal issues. She serves as Director of EFF's Campaign 
for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFÉ), which she launched in June of 
1999 to explore the intersection of intellectual property law and 
freedom of expression related to the use of digital technology.
*	Charlotte Hess is Director of Library Services and Professor 
at Indiana University, Bloomington and the author of Common Pool 
Resources & Collective Action. She is co-authoring a paper on the 
intellectual property commons.
*	Mark Hosler is a member of the appropriationist group 
Negativland and one of the authors of Fair Use by Negativland.
*	David Lange is Professor of Law at Duke Law School and a 
writer, producer, director and production coordinator in radio, 
television and motion pictures. Twenty years ago, his article 
Recognizing the Public Domain initiated contemporary legal study of 
the subject.
*	Larry Lessig is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He 
is the author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace and, most 
recently, of The Future of Ideas.
*	Jessica Litman is Professor of Law at Wayne State Law School 
and author of Digital Copyright (Prometheus Books 2001). Among her 
most recent articles are Information Privacy/Information Property and 
Breakfast with Batman®: The Public Interest in the Advertising Age.
*	Damian Loeb is an internationally recognized artist who uses 
a technique of appropriation prominently in his work. His most recent 
exhibition, at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City (March, 2001), 
was entitled "The Public Domain.
*	Jamie Love has worked full time for the Center for Study of 
Responsive Law (CSRL), started by Ralph Nader in 1968, since 1990. He 
directs the Consumer Project on Technology (CPT) which is active in a 
number of issue areas, including intellectual property, 
telecommunications, privacy and electronic commerce, plus a variety 
of projects relating to antitrust enforcement and policy.
*	Steven Maurer is a California attorney specializing in 
intellectual property litigation who prepared a law and economics 
study of proposed database legislation for the National Research 
Council in 1998. Since then, he has specialized in studying 
scientific databases and how they interact with commercial 
incentives, and he recently completed a study of the EU's database 
law for Industry Canada. He has also worked with scientists on 
practical efforts to build and commercialize advanced databases in 
physics and biology.
*	Eben Moglen is a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and 
the General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. He is the 
author, among many other articles, of Anarchism Triumphant: Free 
Software and the Death of Copyright.
*	David Nimmer is Of Counsel to Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, 
and Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA. Currently the author of Nimmer 
on Copyright (10 vols., Matthew Bender), he also comments frequently 
on contemporary issues in copyright and intellectual property.
*	Harlan J. Onsrud is Professor of Spatial Information Science 
and Engineering at the University of Maine and a research scientist 
with the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis 
(NCGIA). A scientist, engineer, and attorney, his research focuses on 
the analysis of legal, ethical, and institutional issues affecting 
the creation and use of digital spatial databases and the assessment 
of the social impacts of spatial technologies. He chairs the U.S. 
National Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA).
*	Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political 
Science, Indiana University, Bloomington. Her book Governing the 
Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action 
(Cambridge University Press, 1990), and her subsequent work on the 
subject, has had a dramatic effect on environmental policy. She will 
be commenting on the use of the commons literature to analyze 
intellectual property and public domain issues (with Hess).
*	David Post is Professor of Law at Temple University where he 
teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace, and a 
Senior Fellow at the Tech Center at George Mason University Law 
School. He is also Co-Founder and Co-Editor of ICANN Watch, the 
Cyberspace Law Institute, and Disputes Organization.
*	H. Jefferson Powell has been a member of the Duke faculty 
since 1987. He has served in both the federal and state governments, 
as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and as Principal Deputy 
Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Special 
Counsel to the Attorney General of North Carolina; he has briefed and 
argued cases in both federal and state courts, including the Supreme 
Court of the United States.
*	Laurie Racine is the President of the Center for the Public 
Domain. Before joining the Center, she was the Director of the Health 
Sector Management Program at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke 
University. She has spent many years as a consultant concentrating in 
the arts, education and health care.
*	Arti Rai is an Assistant Professor at the University of 
Pennsylvania School of Law. She writes on patent law, biotechnology, 
health care regulation, and intellectual property in cyberspace. She 
will be writing with Rebecca Eisenberg, on the public domain in 
biotechnology research.
*	Jerome Reichman is Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law at Duke 
Law School. His latest writings stress the need for new liability 
rules to simulate investment in small-scale innovation not 
susceptible to trade secret protection in order to cure market 
failure. He has been special advisor to the United States National 
Academy of Sciences, and the International Council for Science (ICSU) 
on the subject of legal protection for databases.
*	Carol Rose is Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law at Yale 
Law School. Among her many articles is The Comedy of the Commons, a 
reexamination of Hardin's famous Tragedy of the Commons to identify 
those cases in which common property regimes actually work better 
than exclusionary private property regimes.
*	Mark Rose is Professor and Chair of the English Department at 
the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of 
Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright, one of the most 
distinguished histories of the development of ideas about copyright.
*	Marc Rotenberg is Director (and Founder) of the Electronic 
Privacy Information Center and one of the world's leading authorities 
on privacy issues.
*	Jed Rubenfeld is Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale 
Law School. His work on privacy, affirmative action and 
constitutional interpretation has reshaped the debate in each of 
these fields. His book Freedom and Time: A Theory of Constitutional 
Self-Government was published by Yale University Press in March, 2001.
*	Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of 
California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of 
Information Management and Systems and the School of Law. She is also 
Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Her 
principal area of expertise is intellectual property law. She has 
written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new 
information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional 
legal regimes and is an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and 
Public Policy Clinic.
*	Cary Sherman is Senior Executive Vice President and General 
Counsel to the Recording Industry Association of America. Formerly a 
senior partner and head of the Intellectual Property & Technology 
Practice Group of Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., he has devoted 
his professional career to copyright and related issues.
*	Brian Cantwell Smith is the Kimberly Jenkins Professor of New 
Technologies and Society at Duke University. Before coming to Duke he 
was principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 
(PARC), Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Founder of the Center for 
the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, and the 
first President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
*	Gigi Sohn is the President of Public Knowledge, a new 
nonprofit organization that will represent the public's perspective 
on intellectual property and related matters. A former Executive 
Director of the Media Access Project and Ford Foundation Project 
Specialist, Ms. Sohn is also an Adjunct Professor at Cardozo Law 
School, where she teaches a course on federal regulation of the 
electronic media, and a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne 
Faculty of Law, Graduate Studies Program.
*	Jonathan Tasini has been President of the National Writers 
Union (UAW Local 1981) since 1990. He is a labor and economics writer 
whose work has appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines. He 
was the lead plaintiff in a recent Supreme Court case about freelance 
authors' rights in online databases.
*	Jennifer Toomey is an activist, musician and the Executive 
Director of the Future of Music Coalition. From 1990 to 1998, she 
co-ran Simple Machines, an independent record label. She is a member 
of the board of The Low Power Radio Coalition, performed in several 
bands including Tsunami, and has written extensively about music and 
Internet technology.
*	Paul Uhlir is Director of International Scientific and 
Technical Information Programs at The National Research Council in 
Washington, D.C., where he directs policy studies and related 
activities for the federal government.
*	William Van Alystne is the William R. & Thomas S. Perkins 
Professor of Law at Duke Law School and one of the pre-eminent First 
Amendment and constitutional law scholars in the United States. His 
professional writings have appeared during four decades in the 
principal law journals in the United States with frequent 
republication in foreign journals..
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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:32:40 -0400

From: "Laura N. Gasaway" <laura_gasaway@unc.edu>

To: Multiple recipients of list <cni-copyright@cni.org>

Subject: Duke IP conference

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