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Public Domain Day: A Celebration of Our Shared Culture and Heritage

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January 30, 2020 | 5:30-9:00pm
小蓝视频 Washington College of Law, Grossman Hall
4300 Nebraska Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20016

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A live webcast will be available on this page at 6:30PM ET, January 30.

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Agenda

  • 5:15 -听Registration Open
  • 5:30 -听Facets of the Public Domain - Public Interest Organization Showcase and Reception (featuring the Bob Schwartz Quartet)
  • 6:30 -听Realizing Access to the Public Domain听
  • 6:55 -听Remixing the Public Domain
  • 7:20 -听Too Important to be Protected: Limits on Copyright for a Healthy Society - Presentation by former MEP Julia Reda, followed by Lighting Talks
  • 8:30-听Reception: featuring the Bob Schwartz Quartet

Program

Facets of the Public Domain - Public Interest Organization Showcase

The following organizations will be participating at the Public Domain Day Showcase opening.听 Refreshments will be provided, and the Bob Schwartz Quartet will play.

Welcome to Public Domain Day and the Role of the Internet Archive in Realizing Public Access to the Public Domain听

  • , Public Lead Creative Commons USA, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law
  • Composer, Conductor, Author
  • , Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive

The Remix - Inspired Creativity

A discussion on how the freedom to build upon creative works can inspire and move culture

  • , Fellow, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice, Howard University School of Law听听
  • Naturel (Twitter: Instagram: )听
    Remixed: Wassily Kandinsky - Contrasting Sounds
  • Tenbeete Solomon (Twitter: Instagram: )
    Remixed: Diego Rivera - Dia de los Muertos
  • Rikasso (Twitter: Instagram: )
    Remixed: Man Ray - Le Violon d'Ingres

Too Important to Be Protected: Limits on Copyright Necessary for a Healthy Society

Julia Reda
Julia Reda

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, 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law

Access to the Law - Georgia vs. Public Resource Org

  • , Director of the Wolf Law Library and Clinical Professor of Legal Research, William and Mary School of Law听 .

Algorithms, Bias and Justice

  • , Associate Professor of Law, Director Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center - 听

Interoperability, Technological Innovation, Consumer Choice, and Corporate Consolidation, 听Google v. Oracle听

  • , ARL, CCIA, Author -

Creative Styles and Vocabularies as Shared Cultural Resources

  • Michael Carroll, Professor of Law, Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law

Copyright and the Public Domain

For categories of information that are central to a thriving public life, copyright protection is听 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;听

  • 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. 听 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.

鈥淸C]opyright assures authors the right to their original听 [*350] expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work鈥μ This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art. 鈥

Feist Publ'ns, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340, 349-350 (1991)