Dance and Intellectual Property: tracking ownership in live and virtual bodies
Presented by Julia Rhoads, Chicago-based choreographer and Artistic Director of Lucky Plush Productions
Constitutional Boundaries of Intellectual Property Law
Presented by David Beeman, lawyer at Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP
Fair Use, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and Documentary Filmmakers
Gordon Quinn, founder and artistic director of Kartemquin Films, will share DVD clips and personal stories to explain how documentary filmmakers regained the rights described by the fair use doctrine. He will also clarify the current restrictions imposed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The History and Politics of Policing Intellectual Property
Presented by Adrian Johns, Professor in the Department of History, Chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and author of Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
The Nature of Intellectual Property in the Mid-twentieth Century
Presenter: Adrian Johns, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
View Adrian Johns' paper: "The Nature of Intellectual Property in the Mid-Twentieth Century"