Upcoming Conference: Cultural Environmentalism at 10 (Stanford Law School CIS)

Save the date: On March 11 and 12, Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is organizing a conference to reflect on ten years of debate on the intellectual property under the banner of “cultural environmentalism”. Registration is free and OpenBusiness.cc will be reporting from the event on its blog. More information can be found at the conference’s website. Excerpt:

Ten years ago, Duke Law Professor Jamie Boyle suggested that the history of the environmental movement offered powerful theoretical and practical lessons to those who sought to recognize the importance of the public domain, and to expose the harms caused by a relentlessly maximalist program of intellectual property expansion.
On March 11-12, 2006, Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society will host a symposium to explore the development and expansion of the metaphor of “cultural environmentalism” over the course of ten busy years for intellectual property law. We’ve invited four scholars to present original papers on the topic, and a dozen intellectual property experts to comment and expand on their works.