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> 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.
> 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(r): 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..
>