IP and IT Conferences

Virtual Worlds, Social Networking and User-Generated Content
Vanderbilt University Law School
Nashville, TN
November 14-15, 2008

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High Technology Protection Summit
July 25 and 26, 2008
University of Washington School of Law
Seattle, WA

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The Boundaries of Intellectual Property Law
February 6-7, 2009
College of William & Mary - Marshall-Wythe School of Law
Williamsburg, Virginia

As the scope of intellectual property law continues to expand, courts and scholars are increasingly confronting the question of the law’s proper boundaries. Is it appropriate, for example, for content
owners to use copyright law to silence unflattering speech? Are countries’ trademark laws, which historically have been geographically limited, now essentially global trademark laws given Internet commerce? Is it consistent with the goals of patent law for the U.S. government, through the Patent and Trademark Office, to define the boundaries of what is patentable based on moral or other
non-innovation-related criteria? Is it important to cabin various IP doctrines to prevent overlap? Although such issues have been the topic of debate in the past, this symposium will provide the
opportunity for participants to take a systemic approach to the boundary question, yielding new scholarship that directly addresses the question of the proper goals of IP law and whether the scope of
our current system aligns with those goals.

Please contact Laura A. Heymann, laheym@wm.edu, for more information

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SubTech 2008 Conference
Substantive Technology in the Law School

William & Mary Law School
Williamsburg, Virginia

July 24 - July 26, 2008

http://www.legaltechcenter.net/subtech/index.html

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Register at http://lst.stanford.edu/transatlantic

Transatlantic Information Law Symposium
June 14, 2008
Stanford Law School
8:45am-5:30pm
(MCLE credits available)

In the twelve years since the publication of the paper Law and Borders – The Rise of Law in Cyberspaceby David G. Post and David Johnson, lawmakers and courts in the United States and European Union have had to address numerous new questions arising from new information technologies and online activities. What have we learned applying existing legal principles to new Internet phenomena? What new principles have been established and what new concepts underlie these principles? What role will new regulatory models and regimes play in the future?
The Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) will host the first Transatlantic Information Law Symposium on June 14, 2008 at Stanford Law School. The goal of the symposium is to bring together the leading experts from the United States and European Union to discuss current issues in information law and to promote mutual understanding of the different approaches.

The symposium will address the following topics:
-Constitutional Rights and IT in the EU
-The Right to Privacy in IT Systems in EU Law
-The Right to Privacy in IT Systems in US Law
-Freedom of Speech and the Internet in US Law
-Property vs. Contract to Govern Online Behavior under US Law
-Property vs. Contract to Govern Online Behavior under EU Law
-The Future of Regulating Cyberspace - Open Discussion

Speakers include:
-Prof. Stefan Bechtold, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
-Prof. Paul de Hert, Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) - Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
-Lothar Determann, Baker & McKenzie LLP; UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
-Prof. Susan Freiwald, University of San Francisco, School of Law
-Prof. Paul Goldstein, Stanford Law School
-Michael Godwin, Wikimedia Foundation
-Prof. Dirk Heckmann, University of Passau, Germany
-Prof. Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
-Dr. Radim Polcak, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
-Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, University of Goettingen, Germany
-Prof. Andreas Wiebe, Austrian Visiting Professor, Stanford University; Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required at http://lst.stanford.edu/transatlantic

The Transatlantic Information Law Symposium dovetails with the 5th Annual Stanford E-commerce Best Practices conference. For more information about the E-commerce Best Practices conference and registration, please visit: http://lst.stanford.edu/best_practices.

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Creative Industries in Transition: New Directions for the Digital Era

A Symposium Series

June 18th, 2008 9:30am - 2:00pm
Moot Court Room
GW Law School, 2000 H St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
(entrance on corner of 20th and H St.)

Professor Robert Merges
Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, & Rosati Professor of Law & Tech, UC Berkeley

will deliver his paper “The Continuing Vitality of Music Performance Rights Organizations”

followed by commentary on the paper by

The Honorable Mary Beth Peters, Register of Copyrights, U.S. Library of Congress, 1994-present

Professor Robert Brauneis, Co-Director of the IP Law Program

Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights, U.S. Library of Congress, 1985-1993, Pravel Professorial Lecturer and GW Fellow

Gigi Sohn, President, Public Knowledge

Dennis Morgan, Grammy Award Winning BMI Songwriter & CEO, Morgan Music Group Inc.

The symposium will conclude with a lunch featuring a keynote address by

Honored Guest, Congressman Howard Coble (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and IP,

This is a free event; please RSVP in advance as lunch will be provided

Organized by GW Law’s IP Law Program, the Creative & Innovative Economy Center (CIEC) and Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI)

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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is proud to celebrate its tenth year as a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center is now home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology, and society.

Through research, events, and discussion, Berkman@10 considers “The Future of the Internet” - to celebrate the work we have done together over the past decade, and to look ahead to what we hope to accomplish collectively in the next.

May 14-16, 2008: Berkman@10 Gala and Conference
http://www.berkmanat10.org

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THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION: PATENTS AND THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATION

Thursday, May 15, 2008
8 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

The Hilton Arlington,
Arlington, Virginia

http://innovationforum.gmu.edu

George Mason University School of Law and Microsoft Corporation announce the second in an annual series of conferences on the law and economics of innovation. The series will bring together leading academics to present and discuss new scholarship touching on diverse aspects of a key question affecting the technology industry and the process of innovation. Each conference will conclude with
a roundtable discussion among top technology industry representatives and regulators to begin to assess the concrete implications of the scholarship for the development of innovative industries.

This second conference in the series will address the role of patents in the commercialization of innovation­an area of significant and enduring controversy. In particular, the conference will focus on three interrelated aspects of the debate over the law and economics of patents: The intersection of patents and antitrust, particularly in technology standards; the economics of the patent system and patent reform; and the proper understanding (and implications) of patents as property.
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3rd Biennial Symposium on The Internet: Governance and the Law

MONTRÉAL, Québec - Sunday, 26 October 2008 – Wednesday, 29 October 2008

McGill University will host the 3rd biennial symposium on The Internet:
Governance and the Law in cooperation with the Center for International Legal Studies and Suffolk University School of Law. This symposium will examine issues of Internet governance which have arisen following the conclusion of the World Summit on the Information Society.

Background

At the conclusion of the Geneva phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), civil society was called upon to play an active role in the development and implementation of national strategies affecting multimodal communication. This role was intended to be primarily consultative in that civil society was deemed to have the potential power to assist in devising and implementing ICT policies and promoting the “good governance” of the Internet. Clearly, civil society showed its commitment to creating “an equitable Information Society” and has become a valuable stakeholder in the definition of action plans and the implementation of policy initiatives. Moreover, the inclusive “we”
of the Tunis Commitment was intended to enlist the support of civil society in the building of “a people-centered, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society”.

Several issues in the post-Tunis phase of WSIS have been topics of research and further discussion among civil society groups as interested stakeholders and between civil society and those charged with “good governance”.

This multilateral stakeholder approach has cast civil society in a consultative and representative role as a change agent in ICT decision-making structures affecting policies, standards, laws and
regulations as well as the control and ownership of the Internet. In one sense, civil society has been empowered in fora where its voice may be heard while, in other instances, civil society has experienced a form of disempowerment which has limited its ability to act as a change agent.

Speakers at the 2008 symposium will address these and related issues under the guidance of the members of the Advisory Program Committee:
James Archibald, Department of Translation Studies, McGill University,
Dennis Campbell, Center for International Legal Studies, Richard Gold,
Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, McGill University and Michael
L. Rustad, Intellectual Property Law Program, Suffolk University School
of Law.

For further information consult the symposium WEB site:

http://www.cils.net/conferences/conference.php?ConferenceID=210&&PHPSESSID=dfe6cde409661ca78eadbcc16b4d9bef

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Fordham Law School’s Center on Law and Information Policy presents:

SECOND LAW AND INFORMATION SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM: ENFORCEMENT, COMPLIANCE AND REMEDIES IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

May 29 & 30, 2008

Fordham Law School
140 W. 62nd Street, NY
McNally Amphitheatre

This symposium will explore the enforcement of, compliance with and remedies flowing from the law in the information society. In 2005, Fordham hosted the first Law and Information Society Symposium to explore what law is or should be applicable in the information society. In this second symposium, we continue our exploration of the law by examining enforcement, compliance and remedies. We will review these aspects in four different substantive areas: international privacy; intellectual property; consumer protection; and data warehousing. These areas have been selected because of their significance in the information society and because they are areas where regulation is currently evolving.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

For more information, please visit: http://law.fordham.edu/clipsymposium
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