Please join us for the 2006 Princeton University – Microsoft Intellectual Property Conference, Creativity & I.P. Law: How Intellectual Property Fosters or Hinders Creative Work, May 18-19 at Princeton University. This public conference will explore a number of strategies for dealing with IP issues facing creative workers in the fields of information technology, biotechnology, the arts, and archiving/humanities.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, the Program in Law and Public Affairs, and the Center for Information Technology Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and funded by the Microsoft Corporation, with additional support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
The conference features keynote addresses from Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and Raymond Gilmartin, former CEO of Merck, Inc. A plenary address will be delivered by Sérgio Sá Leitão, Secretary for Cultural Policies at the Ministry of Culture, Brazil.
Six panels, bringing together experts from various disciplines and sectors, will examine the following topics:
- Organizing the public interest
- The construction of authorship
- Patents and creativity
- Tacit knowledge and the pragmatics of creative work: can IP law keep up?
- Compulsory licensing: a solution to multiple-rights-induced gridlock?
- New models of innovation: blurring boundaries and balancing conflicting norms
We expect the conference to generate a number of significant research initiatives designed to collect and analyze empirical data on the relationship between intellectual property regimes and the practices of creative workers.
Registration for the conference is strongly encouraged as space is limited for some events. For additional information and to register, please visit the conference web site. Online registration will be available beginning Friday, April 14.
We hope to see you in May.
Stanley N. Katz, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Paul J. DiMaggio, Research Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Edward W. Felten, Director, Center for Information Technology Policy
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[...] The title of this post refers to an intriguing conference announcement posted by Ed Felten: The Princeton University - Microsoft Intellectual Property Conference, May 18-29, 2006 at Princeton. Conference website is here. From the homepage: Typically, conferences addressing intellectual property issues have, first, been sponsored by law schools and been driven by considerations of legal issues confronting the field; and, second, have focused on the application of intellectual property law to a particular set of industries or field of endeavor (for example, music, biotechnology, software, or humanities archives). The Princeton University-Microsoft Intellectual Property Conference will diverge from this model in two ways. First, it will focus less on legal doctrine per se, and more on the consequences of intellectual property law for the actual practices of creative workers. Second, the conference will bring to the table scholars and practitioners in several fields – science, the arts, software design, archiving – in an explicit effort to induce intellectual cross-pollination and drive the conversation beyond the usual boundaries of disciplinary discourse. We anticipate that organizing the meetings in this way will push legal scholars and others to explore new ways of framing and conceptualizing old and sometimes intractable legal issues. [...]
This sounds like a very good conference. But it looks as though it's going to be a very crowded one. When I went to book us a room at the Nassau Inn, all that was left was a suite at $440/night, which is a little rich for academics. Fortunately the Nassau Club had a room available, so we'll still be able to come. Perhaps the conference site should provide some alternative hotels.
This time we have yet another ankara nakliyat newcomer .. Ogg Vorbis, the audio codec that
will conquer the world estetik ("What are we going to do tonight Brain? The same thing we do every night Pinky .. Conquer The World!")...
Ahwell, maybe, maybe not, ankara nakliyat time will tell .. in the meantime you can atleast play around abit with it yourself .. Enjoy...
Ogg Vorbis is quite a saç ekimi resource hog though,
so only 060 (barely usable on my 060/50) burun estetiği and MorphOS binaries included (ixemul required)...
Finally, the encoder works! Updated all the lazer epilasyon binaries with some minor fixes from CVS, and changed some options for slight speedup.