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>From our friends at Duke Law, a series of talks on Information Ecology.
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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 19:49:57 -0400
From: Jennifer Jenkins <Jenkins AT law.duke.edu>
To: Jennifer Jenkins <Jenkins AT law.duke.edu>
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Information Ecology Lecture Series 9/19/2003

The Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School is
starting an interdisciplinary lecture series on "The Information Ecology."
This series will feature presentations on subject matter going 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. 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.  The
Triangle area 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 

Professor James Boyle will present the inaugural talk in an
interdisciplinary lecture series on "The Information Ecology." The 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.