January 30, 2020 | 5:30-9:00pm
American University Washington College of Law, Grossman Hall
4300 Nebraska Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20016
A live webcast will be available on this page at 6:30PM ET, January 30.
Co Sponsored by the Internet Archive, SPARC, the Institute for Intellectual Property & Social Justice, Creative Commons, Creative Commons USA, and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
The following organizations will be participating at the Public Domain Day Showcase opening. Refreshments will be provided, and the Bob Schwartz Quartet will play.
A discussion on how the freedom to build upon creative works can inspire and move culture
Copyright, Open Policies, and Access to KnowledgePresentation by Julia Reda, Berkman Klein Fellow, Member of the European Parliament 2014-2019.Introduction by Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law Emeritus, American University Washington College of Law
Access to the Law - Georgia vs. Public Resource Org
Leslie Street, Director of the Wolf Law Library and Clinical Professor of Legal Research, William and Mary School of Law Brief amici curiae of 116 Law Librarians and 5 Law Library Organizations filed.
Algorithms, Bias and Justice
Amanda Levendowski, Associate Professor of Law, Director Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center - How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence's Implicit Bias Problem
Interoperability, Technological Innovation, Consumer Choice, and Corporate Consolidation, Google v. Oracle
Jon Band, ARL, CCIA, Author - Interfaces on Trial
Creative Styles and Vocabularies as Shared Cultural Resources
Michael Carroll, Professor of Law, Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law
For categories of information that are central to a thriving public life, copyright protection is inherently inappropriate as a default legal status. Access to such information undergirds both discourse and practice in areas such as:
Provision of justice and legal representation;
Due process and equal protection of law;
Technological interoperability, consumer choice, and risks of corporate concentration;
Innovation, scientific research, and informed consent;
Cultural education and creativity.
We will explore categories of ideas and information serves such a vital social purpose that legal restraints on public access are counterproductive. Instead, these are the essential building blocks that should form part of a broadly conceived public domain, connected, but not limited to, works whose term has expired and those placed in the public domain by statute.
“[C]opyright assures authors the right to their original [*350] expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work… This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art. ”
Feist Publ'ns, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340, 349-350 (1991)