March 5 James Grimmelmann on Google Books Settlement

You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring James Grimmelmann discussing the Google Books settlement on Friday, March 5 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School.  James, an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School and an ISP Affiliated Fellow, will be discussing “The Google [...]

Christina Mulligan on “Principles for Radical Copyright Reform”

You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring Christina Mulligan discussing “Principles for Radical Copyright Reform” on Friday, February 26 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School.
Principles for Radical Copyright Reform
What’s wrong with copyright law? Currently, it is illegal to watch most DVDs on a linux operating [...]

Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig

Yale Students for Free Culture and the Yale Information Society Project are hosting a live screening of a global webcast of a talk by Lawrence Lessig convened by the Open Video Alliance and Harvard’s Berkman Center. The talk is being broadcast Thursday, February 25th from 6:00 to 7:30 EST, live from Cambridge, MA.
The 45 minute [...]

Arianna Huffington in First Amendment Online Colloquium February 22

The Yale ISP is pleased to announce that Arianna Huffington will be speaking on February 22 at 4:00 p.m. in the Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium at Yale Law School. Because of the high demand for this event, it will be open to the Yale University community and will be held in the Yale [...]

Screening & Discussion: “In the Family”

Thursday, Feb. 11 @ 6:30 p.m. — Room 129 at Yale Law School

Sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union Women’s Rights Project, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and the YLS Law and Health Initiative.

Cyberscholar Working Group Scheduled for February 3 at MIT

The next Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group will take place Wednesday, February 3, 2010 from 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm in Room E14-633 (6th floor), MIT Campus, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA.  Yale ISP Fellow Chris Wong will be a featured scholar presenting his work “Lost in Translation: The Open Patent Project.”
The Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group [...]

Copyright Registries: Rising into the Public Domain

The next copyright lecture series event, entitled “Copyright Registries: Rising into the Public Domain,” will take place on December 9 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. in the Sterling Library Lecture Hall across Wall Street from Yale Law School.  This event is part of the Yale University Library sponsored “Copyright Lecture Series.”
Mimi Calter (Stanford University Libraries) and Anne [...]

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group December 2

Please join us for the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group scheduled for December 2, 2009 from 6:00-8:30 pm at Harvard.  The event will take place in Conference Room 202 of the Berkman Center at 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Please RSVP to Herkko Hietanen at herkko.hietanen@hiit.fi if you plan to attend.  Refreshments provided.   The following [...]

December 1 Lecture on Gene Patents by ACLU Attorney Chris Hansen

The December 1 Yale ISP Speaker Series, co-sponsored with the Yale Law School Chapter of the American Constitution Society, will feature ACLU lawyer Chris Hansen discussing “Gene Patents: Patently Unconstitutional?”  Chris Hansen is the lead attorney in Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office.  The case addresses the patenting of the [...]

Talk by EFF’s Fred Von Lohmann November 17

The November 17  ISP Speaker Series will feature Fred Von Lohmann, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s senior staff attorney specializing in intellectual property matters.  The name of his talk is “Owners of Copies v. Copyright Owners: Understanding Copyright’s Exhaustion Doctrine.”
The Ninth Circuit is poised to rule on three appeals that bring up the same issue: can [...]

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; [...]

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Gigi Sohn Talk on October 27

The October 27 ISP Speaker Series will feature Gigi Sohn discussing “Content and its Discontents: What Net Neutrality Does and Doesn’t Mean for Copyright.”  The event will take place at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School. Refreshments will be provided.
Gigi Sohn is an internationally known communications attorney and the founder of Public [...]

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