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 [...]

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 [...]

February 5 Frank Pasquale Lecture on Search as Speech

You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project and Knight Law and Media Program lunch speaker series featuring Frank Pasquale discussing “Search as Speech: Does the First Amendment Limit Regulation of Google?” on Friday, February 5 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School.

Julie Cohen Lecture January 29

You are cordially invited to the first Information Society Project speaker series event of the new semester, scheduled for Friday, January 29 at noon in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (location to be confirmed the week of the lecture).  This event is co-sponsored by the Yale University Library and is part of the library’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mark Pittman to Speak about Freedom of Information

You are cordially invited to join us Tuesday, October 13, to hear Mark Pittman of Bloomberg News speaking about “Busting the American Casino: How Freedom of Information Can Tame the Federal Reserve.”  The event will take place in Room 121 of Yale Law School at 4:10 p.m. Refreshments will be served.  Pittman will speak [...]

Molly Beutz Land lecture on Health Information and Human Rights

Molly Beutz Land, Associate Professor at New York Law School, spoke about access to health information as a human right.
A Yale Law School graduate, former Bernstein Fellow and Lowenstein Clinical Fellow, Molly Beutz Land has experience as an IP litigator and writes extensively on access to knowledge themes from a human rights perspective.
She shared with [...]

Educating the Many and Not the Few: A Digital Model for Change

The Yale Information Society Project will be joined on September 22 by Shai Reshef, the Founder and President of the University of the People. He will deliver a lecture on “Educating the Many and Not the Few: A Digital Model for Change” at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School.

Fast Company named [...]

Siva Vaidhynathan Lecture on “The Googlization of Everything”

You are cordially invited to the inaugural Information Society Project speaker series of the new year, scheduled for Tuesday, September 8 at 1:15 p.m. in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall and co-sponsored by the Yale University Library. The lecture hall is immediately across Wall Street from the law school. Siva Vaidhynathan, media scholar [...]

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