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 [...]
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 Panel V: Freedom to Innovate: Knowledge, Technology, Culture
We live in an age of decentralized innovation in which civil liberties and cultural freedom depend on the freedom to innovate and share innovations with others. Increasingly, cultural freedom, access to knowledge, and freedom of expression depend on the ability of entrepreneurs to create new tools for sharing, producing, and distributing content. Increasingly, new ideas [...]
Opening Innovation through Opening Standards
Yale ISP Executive Director, Laura DeNardis, in a keynote address “Opening Innovation through Opening Standards” at the Paris Interoperability Workshop on June 24, 2009, discussed the linkage between open standards and innovation policy. DeNardis presented two examples – in the areas of synthetic biology and Internet video – in which greater openness in interoperability standards [...]
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