Beth Noveck on Open Government April 23
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring Beth Noveck discussing “Open Government and the First Amendment: Strengthening our Democracy through Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration” on Friday, April 23 at 12:15 p.m. in Room 128 of Yale Law School. This event is part of the Liberty Tree First Amendment Online [...]
Panel on States, Markets, and Inequality in Reprogenetics
Please join us on April 23 at 3:00 p.m. for a special Information Society Project panel exploring some of the challenges to traditional reproductive rights arguments that are posed by the availability of new reproductive technologies. Entitled, Power Plays: States, Markets, and Inequality in Reprogenetics, the panel will be moderated by ISP Senior Fellow Priscilla [...]
Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman Discusses Independent and Citizen Journalism April 15
Amy Goodman, the founder of Democracy Now! will discuss her latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier on Thursday, April 15, at 4:00 p.m. in room 127 at Yale Law School. The theme of her talk will be the power of independent journalism in the struggle for a better world. The talk is [...]
David Post April 9 in Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium
David Post will discuss “Can We Defend Free Speech on the Net?” on Friday, April 9 at 12:10 p.m. in Room 128 of Yale Law School. This event is part of the Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium, sponsored by the Liberty Tree Initiative, the McCormick Foundation, and the First Amendment Center.
Can We Defend Free [...]
Nicholas Bramble on “Should the FCC Let AT&T Be? Standing on the Shoulders of Weary Giants of Flesh and Steel”
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring Nicholas Bramble discussing “Should the FCC Let AT&T Be? Standing on the Shoulders of Weary Giants of Flesh and Steel” on Friday, April 2 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School.
Should the FCC Let AT&T Be? Standing on [...]
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, March 26 (rescheduled from a snowy 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 [...]
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 [...]
