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Posts on ‘January 12th, 2009’

Liveblog: TACD IP: Copyright Policy

The next panel is on copyright policy. Michael Geist is sitting in for Jamie Boyle. Gigi Sohn, unlike the other moderators, is playing a very active role — there aren’t presentations, just questions from Sohn.
First: You’ve been named special advisor on copyright to the U.S., E.U., or Canada. What are your top three recommendations?
Fred von [...]

Liveblog: TACD IP: Patents and Innovation

The next panel is on patents and innovation. First is Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University.

Maintaining an innovation economy is central to America’s long run success. The financial sector relied on overly simplistic economic models, didn’t understand the role of government, used economic ideology to prop up its interests. The high tech and research sectors face similar [...]

Liveblog: TACD IP conference

As part of my New Years’ resolutions, I want to blog more about events that I attend. Today’s (I think — my brain isn’t working 100% yet this morning) the first event I’ve been to this year, I’ll start here. Today, I’m at the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue workshop, Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The [...]

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