Conference Announcement: Some Modest Proposals 2.0

Some Modest Proposals 2.0
A Conference About Pouring Academic Ideas Into Legislative Bottles
Thursday-Friday, February 24-25, 2005
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 55 Fifth Avenue, NYC, NY 10003

In "Modest Proposals," we invite academics known for advocating thoughtful ways to improve intellectual property, technology, and information law to present ideas from their writing in the form of actual statutory, regulatory, or treaty language. The proposal then receives both scholarly and political commentary in a free-wheeling discussion among professors, current and former Capitol Hill staff, Administration officials, and Washington activists. This year, Modest Proposals 2.0 will have a set of copyright, patent, and privacy law proposals -- and a stellar cast of participants, including many of the founding participants from our first Modest Proposals.

Agenda

Thursday, February 24, 2005
12:30pm, Registration
1:00pm – 2:30pm, Repairing Copyright’s Fair Use, Michael Madison
2:45pm – 4:15pm, Gag Rules and Information Flows: Or, How to Do Secret Surveillance in an Open Society, Peter Swire
4:45pm – 6:15pm, Patent Law, Drugs, and the Health Crisis in the Developing World, William Fisher III & Talha Syed

Friday, February 25, 2005
8:30am – 9:30am, Continental Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am, A Notice Requirement for DMCA Anti-Circumvention Rules, Pam Samuelson
10:45am – 12:15pm, Patent Fair Use, Dan Burk
2:00pm – 3:30pm, Treating Online Surveillance Like a Wiretap, Susan Freiwald