NOCA: This American Copyright Life: Reflections on Re-equilibrating Copyright for the Internet Age

FULL BROCHURE & REGISTRATION – Registration Deadline: May 14

Drawing on the format and style of Ira Glass’s “This American Life” radio broadcast, this presentation unfolds in three parts:

Act I – How did we get here?;

Act II – Why should society care about

copyright’s public approval rating?

Act III – How do we improve copyright’s

public approval rating and efficacy?

Peter S. Menell is the Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and serves on a part-time basis as one of the inaugural Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Professionals at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Professor Menell’s research and teaching at University of California at Berkeley have focused on the fields of intellectual property and the digital technology and entertainment industries, as well as environmental law and policy, property law, and law and economics. He founded the Berkeley Center for Law and Technologyin 1995 and served as Executive Director from 1999 to 2005. He is Vice-Chair of the National Academies of Sciences project on copyright and innovation. He writes regular commentaries on copyright law and policy that appear on the Media Institute website

FULL BROCHURE & REGISTRATION

Registration Deadline: May 14