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[Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>]

The Center for the Study of the Public Domain invites you to the following 
Information Ecology lecture. Apologies for cross-postings.

Professor Eric von Hippel of the MIT Sloan School of Management:
"Democratizing Innovation and Norms-based Intellectual Property Rights"

Date: 09/22/05
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Location: Duke Law School, Room 3043
Lunch will be served

Innovation is increasingly becoming "democratized" as users develop products 
for themselves.  Many freely reveal what they have developed to a commons. 
Others, however, appear to assert some rights to their innovations on the basis 
of community social norms.  Professor von Hippel will provide an overview of 
democratized innovation, and then describe a case study of informal recipe 
rights expectations among French chefs.

Von Hippel is Head of the Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group 
at the MIT Sloan School of Management.  His research is focused on the nature 
and economics of "distributed" innovation.

This lecture is open to all.  Boxed lunches will be available for the first 
eighty people who come to the lecture.  Please feel free to forward this 
announcement to anyone who may be interested in attending.

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