Illuminating the impact of intellectual property law on innovation
Christina’s terrific piece on Copyright and Glee looks at IP law’s impact on cultural participation. But what about the impact of IP on access to new technologies?
I’d like to take that up as the topic of my post, through a look at the little-known legal life of the light bulb.
More than a century after its [...]
ISP Fellows featured in “Why Open Video?”
On the same weekend as the ISP’s conference, A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights, the Free Culture X conference was taking place in Washington DC. As part of that event, they released Tim Kothran’s great ten-minute educational movie entitled “Why Open Video?”
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Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference
February 11-13, 2010 at Yale Law School
This conference seeks to lay the groundwork – conceptual and strategic – to build bridges between the A2K and human rights communities pursuing common goals of promoting greater access to knowledge, culture, technology and tools for innovation worldwide.
A2K4: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Yale Law School’s fourth major conference on access to knowledge, A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights, was kicked off by professor Jack Balkin, founder of the Yale Information Society Project.
Blogging, video, and discussion of the conference may be followed at http://yaleisp.org. The best link for accessing these materials is: http://yaleisp.org/2010/02/a2k4main.
Register now for A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference
The right to take part in cultural life, to share in scientific progress, the rights to education, health care, and food: all are impacted by and impact upon policies and movements around intellectual property and Internet freedom.
This two-day conference seeks to lay the groundwork – conceptual and strategic – to build bridges between the A2K [...]
Save the Date: February 12-13, 2010
A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference
Please save the date for the Fourth Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K4) scheduled to take place at Yale Law School on February 12-13, 2010.
Access to knowledge (A2K) is about designing intellectual property laws, telecommunication policies, and technical architectures that encourage broader participation in cultural, civic, and educational affairs; [...]
Open Video: The Rough Cut
Professionally produced video of all the speeches from the Open Video conference will go live at http://openvideoconference.org within a few days. In the meantime, amateur footage is already floating around the internet.
Yochai Benkler: Friday Keynote Address
Lea Shaver: Open Video and Human Rights
ISP Resident Fellow Lea Shaver spoke at the Open Video Conference today on a panel addressing “Human Rights and Indigenous Media: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities.”
In her presentation, Shaver suggested that open video promotes human rights in two ways, strengthening freedom of expression and cultural participation.
Using examples from the recent mass demonstrations in Iran, Shaver highlighted [...]
Open Video Conference coming June 19-20
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 Mozilla, Creative Commons, and the Berkman Center for Internet [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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