On March 5, 2010, the Wake Forest School of Law Intellectual Property Law Journal will hold its annual symposium. This year’s topic will focus on how current copyright laws are applied to tomorrow’s technologies. The keynote speaker will be Ms. Laura N. Gasaway, a professor of law at the University of North Carolina’s School of Law. Ms. Gasaway is a scholar in the field of copyrights, focusing primarily on the intersection of authorship rights and cyberspace law. The symposium will feature a unique composition with two individual panels focusing on copyright issues in the areas of music and software development and use.

Copyright law has fallen under increased scrutiny as new technological developments have made it harder for traditional copyright laws to remain applicable. New development techniques, such as the use of open source software, have obscured the need for traditional copyright protections, and instead require a “new look” approach. Our symposium will seek to address these problems and attempt to propose innovative solutions.

We are bringing together a wide variety of legal experts from the music and software fields to discuss these issues

http://ipjournal.law.wfu.edu/symposia/

For more information, check back at http://www.ipscholars.org/.

Friday, April 9, 2010
10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Harvard Law School
1563 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

This one-day symposium and CLE program will celebrate the launch of the Online Media Legal Network and bring together panels of academics, legal practitioners, and journalists to tackle a range of challenging topics.

Registration Details

To register or for more information, please visit http://www.omln.org/conference.

Cost is $275 ($225 if registration is received before March 22), which includes all CLE/course materials and lunch. A limited number of discounted tickets are available for $50 (not including lunch) to public interest lawyers and those working for nonprofits.

Panels:
Saving Journalism from Itself? Hot News, Copyright Fair Use and News Aggregation
Michael Grygiel – Hiscock & Barclay, LLP (outside counsel for GateHouse Media)
R. David Hosp – Goodwin Procter LLP (outside counsel for the New York Times)
Srinandan Kasi – Vice President and General Counsel, Associated Press
Joseph Liu – Professor, Boston College Law School
Moderated by: Christopher Bavitz – Assistant Director, Cyberlaw Clinic, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

Building and Managing Online Communities – Anonymity, Defamation and Privacy, Oh My!
Patrick Carome – Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Bill Densmore – Consultant to Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at University of Missouri and co-founder of CircLabs Inc.
Eric Goldman – Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law
Jeff Howe – Contributing editor at Wired.com and author of Crowdsourcing
Barbara Wall – Vice President/Senior Associate General Counsel, Gannett Co., Inc.
Moderated by: David Ardia – Director, Citizen Media Law Project, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

The Future of Journalism: Law and Ethics in a Changing Media Ecosystem
Robert Bertsche – Prince Lobel Glovsky & Tye LLP
Lucy Dalglish – Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Jon Hart – General Counsel, Online News Association; Dow Lohnes PLLC
Dan Kennedy – Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, Northeastern University
Josh Stearns – Program Manager, Freepress.net and SavetheNews.org
Cameron Stracher – Co-Director, Program in Law & Journalism, New York Law School
Moderated by: Phil Malone – Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Cyberlaw Clinic, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010

Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA

Time: 04:00 PM – 06:30 PM

GUEST PANELIST
Professor Pamela Samuelson
Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley School of Law
Pamela Samuelson’s 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. Since 1996, she has served as a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information, School of Law, and Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. She also serves as an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic, which she co-founded in 2002.

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PANEL

PROFESSOR JESSICA SILBEY, MODERATOR
Suffolk University Law School

PROFESSOR PAMELA SAMUELSON, COMMENTARY
Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley School of Law

PROFESSOR JULIE E. COHEN
Harvard University Law School

PROFESSOR STEPHEN M. MCJOHN
Suffolk University Law School

ALFRED C. YEN
Boston College Law School

PROFESSOR JONATHAN ZITTRAIN, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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To register for this program please go to:

http://www.law.suffolk.edu/academic/als/coursedetail.cfm?cid=681##a

Prof. Graeme Dinwoodie, University of Oxford
International Copyright, the Modern Library, and Other Digital Dreams
Jacob Burns Moot Court Room
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
55 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street
New York, NY 10003

April 13, 2010 at 6 pm

RSVP ipprogram@yu.edu or 212.790.0207

present

The U.S. Innovation Economy – Getting Back on Track . . .

Thursday, March 18, 2010
3:30 pm -5:30 pm

American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Room 608 – International Lounge

Panelists

Scott Blake Harris
General Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Marc Berejka
Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Commerce

The Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Moderator
Taraneh Maghame

The panel will explore one of the key challenges facing our government – building a foundation to get the U.S. innovation economy back on track. The key to reinvigorating our competitiveness is smart technology and innovation. Billions of dollars have been set aside by the government to promote and fund such innovation, particularly in the alternative energy and clean tech. sectors. Our panel of distinguished speakers will discuss not only how these funds can be used to achieve the best results, but also the importance of other steps, including education to jumpstart American innovation and the economy.

Registration and Telecast Details

1) Those wishing to participate On-Site, with or without CLE credit, please visit www.fedcirbar.org/events.

2) For special “group” pricing and university law schools interested in FREE internet participation, contact Leah Jones, jones@fedcirbar.org.

3) Those wishing to participate via the Internet, please visit our website: https://fedcirbar.webex.com and use registration password “Innovation2010”. Please enter coupon code that applies (listed next to each category above) upon checkout to receive discounted price.

Private Practitioner
Government/Academic/Retired

$120 non member
$35 non member (vukfffffcq)

$75 member (fokokeftgc)
$15 member (gogddtmfrh)

FCBA will seek CLE credit from applicable states for those registrants from within the United States (except OH, PA, IN, & PR).

Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Women and the Law Program, and Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

present

IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections

Gender and Invention

Friday, April 16, 2010
9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Washington College of Law, Room 100
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20016

Registration: www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration
Webcast: http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm

Christine Haight Farley
Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Washington College of Law
Welcome

Ann Shalleck
Professor of Law and Director
Women and the Law Program
Washington College of Law
&
Michael Carroll

Professor of Law and Director
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
Washington College of Law

Opening Remarks

Gendered History– 9:30 am -11:30 am

Dr. Rayvon Fouché
Associate Professor of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
&
Sharra Vostral
Associate Professor, Gender Studies and History,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Selling Women: Lillian Gilbreth and Gendered IP
Annette I. Kahler
Director, Center for Law & Innovation, Albany Law School
Examining the Right to Exclude: Historical, Social, and Economic Perspectives on Women and Invention

Dan Burk
Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine
Comments

Gendered Doctrine – 11:30 am -12:30 pm
Kara W. Swanson
Associate Professor, Earle Mack School of Law, Drexel University
Merry Widows: Egbert v. Lippman and the Corset as Patented Technology

Ann Bartow
Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law
Gender, Innovation and Inventorship: Every Patent Tells a Story

Shubha Ghosh
Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
Comments

Gendered Goals: Luncheon & Keynote – 12:30 pm -2:30 pm

Joshua Sarnoff
Professor of the Practice of Law, Washington College of Law
Introduction

Zorina Khan
Associate Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College
What Do Intellectual Property Rights Promote? Innovation Among Women Inventors in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Gendered Production– 2:30 pm -4:30 pm

Bernardita Escobar
Instituto de Políticas Públicas‐ Expansiva UDP, Santiago, Chile
Women and Science Production in Developing Countries: Chile in the 1990‐2008 Period

Dr. Shlomit Yanisky Ravid
Head of the Comparative Legal Research Center, Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College, Israel
Patents and Gender: The Exclusion of Women Inventors from IP Rights

Laurel Smith-Doerr
Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University
Gendering Science, Gendering Ethics: The Intersecting Production of Knowledge, Gender and Ethics

Mario Biagioli
Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
Comments

Closing & Adjournment
Victoria Phillips
Professor of the Practice of Law, Washington College of Law
Closing Remarks

Fordham Law School to Host Fourth Law and Information Society Symposium

NEW YORK, NY – Fordham Law School will host an all-day symposium titled Hate Versus Democracy on the Internet on March 26, 2010. From political blogs to the exposure of rights abuses, the Internet advances communication and the free flow of information that is at the heart of democracy. Yet, from Holocaust deniers to terrorist organizers, the Internet also serves as an enabler for extremists promoting hate, violence and the corrosion of democratic values. This conference will explore the legal and policy dimensions of the Internet’s dual impact.

The event features keynote speaker Jing Xhao (aka Michael Anti), Political Columnist and Blogger and Harvard Nieman Fellow; Nicole Wong, deputy general counsel of Google, Inc; Joel Reidenberg, professor of law and academic director of the Center on Law & Information Policy at Fordham Law School; and many other leaders in the field. The panel topics are: The Internet as a Dual Use Technology: Democracy and Extremism; Distinguishing Hate Speech from Legitimate Political Expression; Online Hate Speech and Diverse International Concerns; How to Combat Hate Speech While Promoting Democracy. The event is free and open to the public. CLE credit will be available for a fee. The full schedule is available at: www.law.fordham.edu/CLIPconference

Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 9am to 5pm
Location: Pope Auditorium (60th Street and Columbus Avenue)
Sponsor: Center on Law & Information Policy

Contact: Jamela Debelak
Telephone: (212) 930-8878
Email: debelak@law.fordham.edu

The George Washington University Law School, along with Howrey LLP and Cornerstone Research, is proud to present its second annual Law Symposium on Intellectual Property.

Join colleagues from private practice, the judiciary, economic consulting groups and academia to discuss hot topics and recent developments in IP law.

DATE
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

TOPICS INCLUDE:

Tips and trends for litigating in the busiest patent courts in the US
Interplay between “written description” and “enablement”
Strategic management of an IP portfolio
Industry perspectives on Bilski v. Kappos

VENUE

The symposium will be held at The George Washington University Law School, located at 2000 H Street NW, Washington, DC. The Law School is about 4 blocks from the Foggy Bottom/GWU and Farragut West Metro stations, both of which are on the Metro’s Blue and Orange lines. Parking is very limited around the law school.

Visitor parking is located at the Marvin Center Garage, 800 21st Street, between 21st and 22nd Streets. The cost is $7.00 for up to one hour, $13.00 for up to two hours and $16.00 daily.

CLE CREDITS
The George Washington University is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.

The George Washington University will submit applications to the state bar associations for continuing legal education credits for the states of Pennsylvania and New York. Since crediting is decided by the local bar associations, no advance assurance can be given that credit will be granted in all cases. Please contact your state’s CLE administrative office to determine whether your state will accept the requirements established by Pennsylvania and New York.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Contact Stacey Gardiner at ipsymposium@law.gwu.edu

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