[wos] The Public Domain -- Conference at Duke Law School

[Volker Grassmuck]

James Boyle asked me to pass this around, which I do with pleasure /volker

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The Public Domain
A Conference at Duke Law School 
(With the support of the Center for the Public Domain)
November 9-11, 2001
Details, Participants, Schedule and Registration at
http://www.law.duke.edu/pd 

>From Nov 9-11, Duke Law School is having a conference on the Public Domain; we 
have scholars of intellectual property and cyberspace, as well as prominent theorists 
of the commons, historians, appropriationist artists, scientists, activists, filmmakers, 
entrepreneus, 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.  

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Excerpt from the conference description

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.

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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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