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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing the implications of the Internet and new information technologies for law and society, guided by the values of democracy, human development, and social justice.
Talk Tomorrow: Open Data and Code in Bioinformatics I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow afternoon in Mark Gerstein’s group in the Bioinformatics department here at Yale. I’ll be telling the story of this summer’s Toronto round of talks on data release in the genome sequencing community and leading a deeper discussion on what open data and code means for bioinformatics. My working title [...] |
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 [...] |
Final Panel: the View from the Newsroom It’s an honor to be liveblogging the final panel, featuring Linda Greenhouse, David Carr, Marcia Chambers, Bill Mitchell, and Ari Paul, and moderated by Emily Bazelon. Linda Greenhouse observes that the Harvard Crimson created an endowment to subsidize students who otherwise would have had to do work-study at other parts of the university. Describes the benefits [...] |
Direct and Indirect Government Subsidies, 1:45-3:15pm Howdy everyone. This is Betsy Cooper, your humble rapporteur for the government subsidies panel. Our illustrious speakers for this panel, moderated by the ISP’s Nic Marais, include: - Edwin Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School - Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School. His paper is available here - Stephen Nevas, Yale Information Society Project & Knight Law and Media [...] |
Who Will Pay the Messengers? Non-profit and Foundation-funded Models, 11:15 – 12:45 PM Greetings and salutations. This panel, moderated by Douglas Rand, will discuss the role of not-for-profit models and funding in the emerging ecology of news. The panelists are: David Westphal, USC Annenberg Bill Buzenberg, Center for Public Integrity Robert Lang, Mannweiler Foundation Patrick Kabat, Yale ISP Nabiha Syed, Yale ISP James Cutie, Connecticut News Project Doug Rand: A conversation about the past, present [...] |
The Changing Ecology of News Media: Saturday, 9 am – 11 am. The Changing Ecology of News Media Saturday, 9 am – 11 am. Good morning! This panel, moderated by Yale ISP’s Chris Anderson, will explore the changing ecology of news media. How do peer production models work and how well do they perform traditional journalistic functions? How does a networked public sphere operate and how does it provide salient [...] |
Live Blogging — The Quest for Pay Models Hi, this is David Robinson, live blogging the panel on The Quest for Pay Models. Our participants: Penelope Abernathy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Steven Brill, Journalism Online Inc. James Kennedy, Associated Press, VP for Strategy Tom Glocer, CEO of Thomson-Reuters Robert Pickard, Jonkoping University, Sweden Here’s some background on Penelope Abernathy (bio). She asks, why have investors abandoned news [...] |
