Intellectual Property Society

State of Play Academy - Spring 2007 Semester

I am delighted to announce the State of Play Academy (SOPA) Spring Semester will start Monday April 23 2007 and run thru June 8, 2007. SOPA is a virtual space for conversations about law and technology located in There.com.

We are offering conversations in three tracks:
* Paper Workshops- presentations by scholars of papers related to law and technology.
* Issue Conversations- group discussions of current events and emerging issues in law and technology.
* How-to's- practical advise on all sorts issues that confront ordinary Internet users.

More information, including how to log on and participate in SOPA classes at: http://stateofplayacademy.com/

We will be adding more classes as the semester progresses. I will add them to the website and post them on our blog. You can also join our mailing list to get regular updates to our schedule.
http://stateofplayacademy.com/mod/resource/view.php?id=20

Please let me know if you are interested in leading one of our conversations this semester as I have some slots available.

Hope to see you in There!

-Lauren Gelman
Dean, State of Play Academy
Gelman at Stanford dot edu
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SCHEDULED CONVERSATIONS

(listed by track, a calender view is available at http://stateofplayacademy.com/)

(1) Paper Workshops- presentation by scholars of papers related to law and technology.

Law and Search Engines
Wednesday, 2 May (04:00 PM » 05:00 PM)
James Grimmelmann
NYLS

Public disclosure and the Fourth Amendment
Monday, 7 May (03:00 PM » 04:00 PM)
Jennifer Granick
Stanford Law School

Revolving Door No More: Inevitable Disclosure and Its Potential Impact on Technological Public Infrastructure
Tuesday, 8 May (11:30 AM » 12:30 PM)
David Levine
Stanford law School

Indirect Enforcement of the Intellectual Property Clause
Tuesday, 8 May (01:00 PM » 02:00 PM)
Chris Sprigman
University of Virginia Law School

Why Privacy Injuries are the Environmental Damage of the Information Age, and What This Can Tell Us About How to Protect Privacy
Tuesday, 15 May (01:10 PM » 02:10 PM)
Dennis D. Hirsch, Associate Dean and Professor, Capital University Law School

Keywording Advertising in Search Engines and Trademark infringement: Challenges to the 'Trademark Use' Doctrine
Thursday, 17 May (10:00 AM » 11:00 AM)
Zohar Efroni, Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law

Claims of Copyright Misuse based on First Amendment Interests
Wednesday, 30 May (12:00 PM » 01:00 PM)
David Olson
Stanford Law School

(2) Issue Conversations- group discussions of current events and emerging issues in law and technology.

The Viacom-Youtube Lawsuit
Monday, 23 April (02:00 PM » 03:00 PM)
David Post, I. Herman Stern Professor of Law, Temple University Law School

Using Second Life and the Concept of Virtual Property in a First Year Property Law Course
Monday, 30 April (12:00 PM » 01:00 PM)
Elizabeth Townsend Gard, visiting assistant professor at Seattle University School of Law

A SOPA Panel on Local cultures in the global media space
Thursday, 3 May (10:00 AM » 11:00 AM)
In cooperation with the Budapest University of Technology - Center for Media Research and Education.

Current Trends in Interoperability
Monday, 21 May (01:00 PM » 02:00 PM)
Stefan Bechtold, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Every Move You Make: Location Tracking and the Law
Wednesday, 23 May (04:00 PM » 05:00 PM)
Kevin Bankston, staff attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation

IP policies of the US in free trade agreeements with developing countries
Friday, 1 June (04:30 PM » 05:30 PM)
Andres F Umana, Brigard & Urrutia (a Colombian law firm).

(3) How-to's- practical advise on all sorts issues that confront ordinary Internet users.

Privacy Policies: Why Cookie Cutter Won't Cut It
Wednesday, 25 April (11:00 AM » 12:00 PM)
Jonathan I. Ezor, Touro Law

Election 2008 and the Remix Culture
Friday, 11 May (12:00 PM » 01:00 PM)
Lauren Gelman, Dean of State of Play Academy
Associate Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.

The P2P Patent Project
Beth Noveck, NYLS

The FCC CPNI Order
Chris Hoofnagle, Boalt, Samuelson Clinic

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines - National Day of Action

The NYLS chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines will be holding a signature drive WEDNESDAY April 18 in the STUDENT CENTER from 3:30-8pm. The drive is to promote access-minded licensing in order to make drugs and treatments created in American universities available to those who need them in developing countries. The event is just part of a massively coordinated effort by the students of over 40 top medical and law schools. We are asking the NYLS community to stop by and donate their signatures to our cause and join the thousands of students and faculty members from universities across America who are also taking action.

More information can be found here: http://www.essentialmedicine.org/action/

The Philadelphia Consensus Statement is attached below.

Download PhiladelphiaConsensusStatement.pdf

Intellectual Property Course Selection Workshop

Tuesday, March 27 Room B 500 1-2PM

The Intellectual Property Law Society will hold a Course Selection Workshop on Tuesday, March 27th from 1-2 PM in room B500. The workshop will provide students interested in registering in Intellectual Property courses with information about the various IP courses offered at New York Law School and provide a forum to ask questions. Professors Beth Noveck and David Johnson as well as Kenneth Norz and Kirk Burkhalter from Academic Affairs office will be attending to provide course information and answer questions.

Pizza and refreshments will be provided.

If you have any questions please contact IPSociety@gmail.com.

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The IP Society has created a website\wiki to allow students to post questions related to IP courses prior to the workshop at:

http://nyls-ipcourses.pbwiki.com/

We encourage you to add your own questions. To edit the wiki, click the "edit" tab. When prompted, enter the password: ipsociety. Faculty members will post answers and questions & answers from the workshop to this site will also be added.

Fair Use for Documentary Filmmakers - Mar. 22, 2007

sponsored by Women in Film & TV
3/22 --- 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
free for students but you must register here:
http://www.nywift.org/article.aspx?id=545#EventInformation

What exactly is Fair Use and when is it fair to use it?

The Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use was published in 2005 by a consortium of independent media organizations, including Women in Film and Video/DC, the International Documentary Association, the IFP and the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture. The Statement makes recommendations for the fair use of copyrighted material when making documentary films. This panel will review these recommendations and their practical applicability, and will explore the issues and risks facing documentary filmmakers in the area of fair use.

Symposium on Intellectual Property Licensing

The Institute for Information Law and Policy invites you to attend the annual Symposium on Intellectual Property Licensing. The IP Licensing and Drafting professors and guest speakers will present specialized topics about drafting and negotiation.

Friday, March 16, 2007
Room A700

9:15-10:00 - Jay Kogan, Character Licensing
Jay Kogan is the Deputy General Counsel for DC Comics and MAD Magazine. His primary areas of practice include print, film, television, multimedia and online publishing and licensing, and he is the company’s chief intellectual property counsel.

10:15-11:00 - James Rosini and Greg Boyd, Licensing in the Videogame Industry
James Rosini is a partner at Kenyon & Kenyon in New York and has over 25 years’ experience in litigation and counseling matters concerning all aspects of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights and unfair competition as well as related entertainment, publishing, music, computer, Internet, domain name and right of publicity issues.
Dr. S. Gregory Boyd is an associate at Kenyon & Kenyon in New York. He has worked in intellectual property litigation, licensing, and counseling and has a special interest in interactive entertainment, financial services, and medicine.

11:15-12:00 - Terry Ilardi, Open Source Licenses
Terry Ilardi is a Copyright Counsel for IBM Corporation where he is responsible for handling copyright and open source matters at the corporate level.

12:15-1:00 Judith Prowda, Alternative Dispute Resolution and IP Licensing
Judith Prowda is an attorney, mediator and arbitrator in New York and specializes in copyright, art and entertainment law.

1:15-2:00 - John Kenny, Patent Licensing and Its Relevance to Non-Patent Attorneys
John Kenny is a partner at Kenyon & Kenyon in New York and has worked primarily on infringement litigation and patent interferences.

Attendance required for members of the Intellectual Property Licensing and Drafting Course.

The Symposium is open to NYLS community on a first-come-first-served basis.

Seating is limited. Please RSVP by 3/15 to Yeen Tham at ytham@nyls.edu.

Download iilp_symposium_poster.pdf

The Symposium on Intellectual Property Licensing Podcasts are available at:
https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/nyls.edu.1290734817

Westlaw Training

WestLaw will be conducting Intellectual Property research training to members of the IP Society. Members who attend will receive training and earn 200 West Law Rewards Points per session.

Patent Law

Thursday, March 1st, 5-6 PM, Westlaw Training Room (40 Worth 715)

Learn how to use Westlaw to research aspects of patent law to: Search Printed Publications Databases, Search for published patent applications, Search for issued Patents, Find other Patent related documents, KeyCite for Patents, Patent Databases on Westlaw, Patent Field Searches

Intellectual Property Law

Friday, March 2nd, 2-3 PM, Westlaw Training Room (40 Worth 715)

Learn how to find resources and research issues related to Intellectual Property law: Find Patent, Copyright, and Trademark documents, KeyCite patent cases, learn the Databases on Westlaw, do IP Field Searches

Members are welcomed to bring laptops to class.

To sign up for Westlaw's Intellectual Property and Patent law training classes

- visit http://lawschool.westlaw.com
- click on " Westlaw Training Calendar" (right above TWEN courses in the middle column)

You will see a calendar in which you can simply click on the date to register.

Berkeley Technology Law Journal - Annual Student Writing Competition

The Berkeley Technology Law Journal is soliciting entries for their annual student writing competition. They will accept submissions from JD candidates on a wide variety of topics at the intersection of law and
technology, including but not limited to: intellectual property, antitrust, First Amendment, entertainment and new media, telecommunications, biotechnology, Internet, and cybercrime. First prize includes $2,000 and publication in the Fall 2007 issue, if the winning article meets the Journal's publication standards. The submission deadline is February 28, 2007.

BTLJ is one of the oldest, most respected and most cited technology law journals in the country. The Journal strives to keep judges, policy-makers, practitioners, and the academic community abreast of the
dynamic field of technology law.

If you need further information, please send an e-mail to dobry@berkeley.edu or visit their website at
http://www.btlj.boalt.org/submissions/competition.php.

UCLA: Journal of Law and Technology

Writing Contest

Topic: Any subject matter related to Law and Technology. Must be Unpublished Work
Suggested Length: 15-20 pages (not including footnotes)
Deadline: January 31, 2007
Prize: $1000
Eligibility: Currently a Law Student at Accredited Law School
Submissions: Please send to submissions@lawtechjournal.com (please indicate that the submission is for the UCLA JOLT writing contest)

www.lawtechjournal.com
(Questions? Contact Sharon Lee at EditorInChief@lawtechjournal.com)

Online Social Network Panel Information

Information on Great Hall Program
Sponsored by the Copyright & Literary Affairs Committee of the ABCNY

Date/Time:
5 February 2007 - 6 PM thru 9 PM

Title:
Getting Ready for Prime Time: Managing the Risks of Online Social Networks

Description:
A panel discussion of online social networks, such as those formed through Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.  The panel will explore the personal and organizational challenges of these networks and measures to manage the copyright, security and privacy risks.

Moderator:
Roland L. Trope, Partner, Trope and Schramm LLP, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Law, U.S. Military Academy

Speakers:
Colonel Curtis A. Carver, Jr., Vice-Dean for Resources, United States Military Academy

Cadet Emma Free, United States Military Academy

Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook

Louise Nemschoff, Entertainment and Copyright Lawyer, Nemschoff Law Offices, Los Angeles, California

John Palfrey, Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School

David Rosenblum, Harvard University

Timothy Wu, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Sponsoring Committee:
Copyright & Literary Affairs Committee, Robert Clarida, Chair, Partner, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman

Registration Fee:
None

Contact at Copyright Committee:
Roland L. Trope, 212.308.7558 / 917.453.2939, roland.trope@verizon.net

Download online_social_network_panel_information.doc

New Section of IP Licensing & Drafting

A new section of IP Licensing & Drafting that focuses on technology has been added for the Spring 2007 semester.  The course will meet on five Fridays (1/26, 2/2, 2/23, 3/16 and 3/23) from 9-2.  We are fortunate to have been able to hire Terry Illardi who is Copyright Counsel for IBM.   Mr. Illardi is also chairman of the Intellectual Property Owners Assocation Open Source Committee since its inception in 2001 and is an advisor to the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Software Contracts project.

If you are interested in registering for this course, please go into EZ Info and register for crn 11847.