Who Owns Ideas? Intellectual Property and the Future of Ideas

The College Commons Signature Event

Thursday, February 18, 2010 : 4:00pm to 6:00pm

University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library
240

Free


Three scholars consider the relationship of ideas to property, and the enormous changes that are shaking the fields of media, entertainment and science.

One of the most significant ways we have of mapping the world is according to the boundaries of individual property. But what happens when that boundary meets the “free exchange of ideas”?

Join Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and author of The Wealth of Networks; Michael B. Eisen, professor of computational and evolutionary biology at the University of California at Berkeley and the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and co-founder of the Public Library of Science; and Jennifer Urban, professor and co-director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law, for a wide-ranging conversation.

To RSVP, click here and enter the event code “CC218”.

Jennifer Cabibbo

http://college.usc.edu/the-college-commons/