Protecting the Information Commons:

Sweeping changes triggered by digital technologies have raised questions about how to understand the public interest in copyright law and digital infrastructure. Join us for a one-day conference, Protecting the Information Commons, which will include the release of several major reports and explore some key questions: How is the public domain being threatened by new technologies and copyright law? What are the implications of current patent policies and digital innovations for science and the public domain? How might the public’s airwaves be used in more equitable and efficient ways? And what creative initiatives and public interest agenda can strengthen the information commons?

Participants

• Yochai Benkler
  Professor, New York University School of Law
• Rick Boucher
  U.S. Representative (D-VA)
• Michael Calabrese
  Vice President and Co-Director, Retirement Security Program, New America Foundation
• Lawrence K. Grossman
  Co-Chair, Digital Promise and Former President, NBC News and Public Broadcasting Service
• Reed Hundt
  Senior Advisor, McKinsey and Co. and former Chair, Federal Communications Commission
• Karen Kornbluh
  Director, Work and Family Program, New America Foundation
• Bruce Perens
  Senior Strategist, Hewlett Packard
• Arti Rai
  Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Clay Shirky
  Consultant, O'Reilly Network
• Seth Shulman
  Author & Journalist Technology Review
• Gigi B Sohn
  President, Public Knowledge
• Peter Suber
  Professor, Earlham College
• Siva Vaidhyanathan
  Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Molly Van Houweling
  Executive Director, Creative Commons
• Jennifer Washburn
  Fellow, New America Foundation
• Tim Watts
  Director, OzProspect