Conference On Public Domain and Intellectual Property

jonnystiles2 writes: "Duke University and the Center for the Public Domain are holding a conference from November 9 to 11 on intellectual property and the the public domain. The conference has a web-site with the papers to be delivered. There is also a discussion board about the conference. You will need to create an account to access the boards. Or, you can view them read-only. Of particular interest to readers of this site will be a paper by Yochai Benkler titled "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm." The people at the conference are some of the leading legal minds in the field of intellectual property. If you are interested in the different debates concerning the ecology of networks, meanings of the First Amendment as related to the Copyright Clause of the Constitution and more, definitely check this out. While this is an legal and academic conference, most of papers require only a rudimentary familiarity with the issues and arguments regarding intellectual property."