From prestonh@comcast.net Mon Oct 13 14:32:50 2003 Received: from mxu5.u.washington.edu (mxu5.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.164]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.10+UW03.09/8.12.10+UW03.09) with ESMTP id h9DLWofc010520 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:32:50 -0700 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mxu5.u.washington.edu (8.12.10+UW03.09/8.12.10+UW03.09) with ESMTP id h9DLWmQP032086 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:32:48 -0700 Received: from nomad.comcast.net (12-208-138-147.client.attbi.com[12.208.138.147]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <2003101321324701300qumkte> (Authid: prestonh); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:32:47 +0000 Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20031013141639.040d0510@mail.comcast.net> X-Sender: prestonh@mail.comcast.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:30:34 -0700 To: indknow@u.washington.edu From: "Preston D. Hardison" Subject: IPR Conference without Indigenous Representation Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIIII, Probability=8%, Report='LINES_OF_YELLING, __ANY_QUALCOMM_MUA, __CT, __CTYPE_CHARSET_QUOTED, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __EUDORA_MSGID, __EUDORA_MUA, __EVITE_CTYPE, __HAS_MSGID, __HAS_X_MAILER, __MIME_VERSION, __SANE_MSGID' [This is getting to be a pattern. Here is another academic conference discussing TK issues without indigenous speakers. As you can see, many (if not most) of the speakers are public domain legal activists. While I have no quarrel with the open discussion of issues, I fail to understand how anyone could interpret Article 8(j) as a license to discuss TK issues without indigenous panelists. What is particularly troublesome is that some of the TK panelists have openly advocated a public domain approach to the TK/IK issue. Again, I urge list members to take the public domain issue very seriously, as it is being driven very strongly by Internet-law activists, access to medicine activists, and the "cultural commons" activists that tend to mix all "cultural" knowledge into a single pot, and tend to view indigenous claims of being outside the Western property law system as yet another illegal attempt at enclosure (e.g. see Michael Brown's new book, "Who Owns Native Culture?"). Regards, Preston Hardison ----------------------------------------------------- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, AND ENDANGERED SPECIES: UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF THE INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program Michigan State University-DCL College of Law Friday-Saturday, March 26-27, 2004 CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION: This interdisciplinary conference will explore the balance between intellectual property and the public domain, the tension between intellectual property rights and biological and cultural diversity, and technology transfer issues concerning less developed countries. Among the participants include intellectual property and communications law and policy scholars, economists, political scientists, public activists, and policymakers from the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Trade Organization, and other national governments. PROGRAM: OPENING REMARKS Prof. Peter K. Yu, Director, Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law COPYRIGHT, DIVERSITY, AND DEMOCRACY - Prof. Jane Briggs-Bunting, School of Journalism, Michigan State University (moderator) - Prof. Doris E. Long, John Marshall Law School - Prof. Ruth Gana Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School - Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University - Prof. Marshall W. Van Alstyne, School of Information, University of Michigan - Prof. Silke von Lewinski, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law - Prof. Christopher S. Yoo, Vanderbilt University Law School BROADBAND AND CONTENT ISSUES - Prof. Johannes M. Bauer, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, Michigan State University - Prof. James B. Speta, Northwestern University School of Law - Prof. Philip J. Weiser, University of Colorado School of Law - Prof. Steve S. Wildman, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, Michigan State University KEYNOTE LUNCHEON Geoffrey Sau Kuk Yu, Assistant Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (invited) FAIR USE AND ACCESS RIGHTS - Prof. Howard B. Abrams, University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law (moderator) - Prof. Ann Bartow, University of South Carolina School of Law - Prof. Justin Hughes, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University - Prof. Jessica Litman, Wayne State University School of Law (invited) - Prof. Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Tulane Law School - Prof. Alfred C. Yen, Boston College Law School BLACK ACRE AND BLACK BEAUTY: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS OR A HAPPY MARRIAGE? - Prof. David S. Favre, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law (moderator) - Prof. Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Law School - Prof. Wendy J. Gordon, Boston University School of Law - Prof. Adam Mossoff, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law - Prof. Stewart E. Sterk, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University - Prof. Molly S. Van Houweling, University of Michigan Law School OPEN SOURCE, OPEN CONTENTS: SOLUTIONS OR PROBLEMS? - Prof. Llewellyn J. Gibbons, The University of Toledo College of Law (moderator) - Prof. Dan L. Burk, University of Minnesota School of Law - Prof. Brian Kahin, School of Information Studies, University of Michigan - Prof. Peter S. Menell, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley - Prof. Srividhya Ragavan, University of Oklahoma School of Law - Prof. Greg Vetter, University of Houston Law Center TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND GLOBAL HARMONY - Dr. Frederic Erbisch, Former Director, Office of Intellectual Property, Michigan State University (moderator) - Prof. Keith Aoki, University of Oregon School of Law - Prof. William O. Hennessey, Franklin Pierce Law Center - Prof. F. Scott Kieff, Washington University School of Law - Prof. Karim Maredia, Institute of International Agriculture, Michigan State University - Prof. Keith E. Maskus, Department of Economics, University of ColoradoBoulder - Jayashree Watal, Intellectual Property Division, World Trade Organization BIODIVERSITY, TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Prof. Rebecca Bratspies, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law (moderator) - Prof. Jim Chen, University of Minnesota School of Law - Prof. Rosemary Coombe, York University - Prof. Daniel B. Gervais, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) - Prof. Laurence R. Helfer, Loyola Law SchoolLos Angeles - Prof. Charles R. McManis, Washington University School of Law - Prof. Nicholas Mercuro, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law COMPETITION LAW AND INNOVATION BARRIERS - Richard Owens, Executive Director, Centre for Innovation Law & Policy, University of Toronto Faculty of Law (moderator) - Prof. Frank Emmert, Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis - Prof. Shubha Ghosh, University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY - Prof. Paul J. Heald, University of Georgia School of Law - Prof. Jacqueline D. Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law - Prof. Jonathan Putnam, University of Toronto Faculty of Law - Prof. Jerome H. Reichman, Duke University School of Law FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: CONTACT: Peter K. Yu Assistant Professor of Law & Director, Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program Adjunct Professor of Telecommunication Information Studies and Media Michigan State University-DCL College of Law 461 Law College Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1300 Tel: (517) 432-6908 Fax: (517) 432-6879 Email: MAILTO:peter_yu@msn.com Website: http://www.peteryu.com .