Jean Burgess: YouTube and Participatory Culture
Jean Burgess of Australia’s Queensland University of Technology visited Yale Law School to present at the ISP’s weekly speaker series.
Madhavi Sunder: iP
By Matthew Maddox, 1L
On Thursday, Madhavi Sunder presented her upcoming book, iP: YouTube, MySpace, Our Culture at the weekly ISP Ideas Lunch. Sunder’s work pushes for reform in intellectual property law to better reflect the participatory character of culture that is becoming increasingly apparent in our current technological era.
Professor Sunder spoke for the need to [...]
The Yale ISP: A student fellow's perspective
By Anjali Dalal, 2L
April and May are the season when admitted students weigh their options, and many of you are probably wondering what it’s like to be a student with interests in law and technology at YLS. In the hopes of helping others to make an informed decision, here is my perspective.
I came to the [...]
Saving Facebook: Yale ISP Lunch Speaker Series with James Grimmelmann
Today’s ISP Lunch Speaker is James Grimmelmann of New York Law School, who is presenting a talk entitled “Saving Facebook”, based on his forthcoming article in the Iowa Law Review (Vol. 94). Slides from this presentation are available at his website.
What is it about technology that causes people to do really dangerous things? [...]
Misguided Legal Theories? Come on, AP.
We ought to pay close attention to the unfolding imbroglio over proprietary news content, spearheaded by the AP’s recent initiative to rein in the reproduction of AP-produced content in search engines and the blogosphere.
Though this unfolds chiefly against the backdrop of an industry in crisis, the longstanding implications may be most interesting from an institutional [...]
Welcome to LAMPpost!
Welcome to the online portal for the Law and Media Program at Yale Law School!
Here you will find news and commentary on contemporary problems in law and media, musings and scholarship from LAMP fellows and affiliates, and updates on the activities of the Program.
Enjoy!
Nic and Patrick
Health Impact Fund Panel
A presentation on the proposed Health Impact Fund (HIF), a pay-for-performance mechanism designed to reduce the cost of advanced medicines without stifling innovation, will be held at Yale Law School Thursday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in Room 127. The event is sponsored by Yale’s MacMillan Center and the Information Society Project at Yale Law [...]
Announcing the Open Video Conference
Open Video Conference June 19-20 in New York City
The future of online video will be explored at a two-day event taking place June 19-20 at the NYU School of Law in Manhattan. The “Open Video Conference” is sponsored by Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Kaltura, in partnership with [...]
What makes a university open?
This week’s Yale ISP Speaker Series features ISP Fellow Elizabeth Stark…
Abstract:
In this interactive talk I will examine the role that universities can and should play in making knowledge available to the world. I will present the Wheeler Declaration, an effort to create a vision as to how universities can best promote knowledge creation and dissemination, [...]
Panel 4: Digitizing Collections
The Digitizing Collections panel, moderated by Associate Yale University Librarian for Collections and International Programs Ann Okerson, is the final panel of the Library 2.0 conference. Panelists include:
Jeff Cunard, Partner, Debovoise & Plimpton
Guy Pessach, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Frank Pasquale, Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Brewster Kahle, Digital librarian and [...]
Panel 3: The Challenge of Copyright
Back from lunch, Lea Shaver introduced the third panel, which included Laura Gasaway, Jonathan Band, Denise Troll Covey and Kenneth Crews. The topic: copyright challenges in the era of the Library 2.0…
Lea Shaver
This panel is entitled “The Challenge of Copyright,” but as the five of us put heads together, we realized that this title was all [...]
Birds of a Feather
Several conference participants took the opportunity to organize BOF meetings during the lunch break. Convening groups addressed the following themes:
Privacy issues in the Library 2.0 world
PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)
The Google Book Search settlement
We invite participants in these groups to report back on their meetings by commenting on this thread.
Panel 2: Ethics and Politics of Library 2.0
Library 2.0 is well underway and after a short break, everyone seems excited to get back.
The second panel, looking at the Ethics and Politics of the Library 2.0, is moderated by Ted Byfield, Visiting Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and Assistant Professor at New School University.
First up we had Mary Alice Baish of [...]
