Decriminalizing Education, Again
PROFESSOR peter decherney
11th Annual Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property听
November 10, 2022听| 6:00pm | In-Person and online
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Professor Peter Decherney听
Peter Decherney is a Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and Faculty Director of the听听at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a secondary appointment at the Annenberg School for Communication and an affiliation with the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at Penn Law School.
He is the author or editor of six books including听听and听. Prof. Decherney听has听also written for听The New York Times, Forbes, Inside Higher Ed, and other publications.听
He is an award-winning documentary and virtual reality filmmaker, who has shot films in Africa, Asia, and the U.S. His virtual reality docuseries. 鈥淭he Heart of Puerto Rico,鈥 about artists in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (co-directed with Jean Lee), won the Best VR Film at the AT&T Film Awards. And his documentary,听听(co-directed with Sosena Solomon), about the Jewish Community in Gondar, Ethiopia was a Discovery+ original.
About the Lecture:
Decriminalizing Education, Again - Decriminalizing Education, Again听- Professor Decherney will discuss his 17 year collaboration with the Washington College of Law鈥檚 Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Among other joint endeavors, he听and the clinic have successfully petitioned for a series of expanding educational exemptions to the anticircumvention provisions of 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act. In his talk, Professor Decherney will discuss the clash of world views revealed in the exemption process, and why he and the clinic may have been fighting the wrong battle all along.听
About the Series:
PIJIP鈥檚听Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property Law听is named in recognition of the continuing contributions of Professor Peter A. Jaszi to the study of intellectual property at WCL,听in the world at large, and in particular for his lasting contributions to the elevation of the public interest in intellectual property discourse.
The Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property is supported by tax-deductible contributions to the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property.
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