The La Trobe University School of Law will host the third annual Conference on Innovation and Communications Law May 29-31, 2011. The Conference is a cooperative effort of La Trobe University School of Law, Drake University Law School, the University of Hawai’i, William S. Richardson School of Law, the University of Louisville School of Law, Michigan State University College of Law, the University of Turku Faculty of Law, and the IPR University Center, Finland. The theme for this year’s conference is Re-envisioning Progress: Pluralistic Visions of Intellectual Property in a Globalized, Digitized Era.
Focusing on the globalization of intellectual property rights (IPR), this conference aims to look beyond utilitarian rationales for intellectual property (IP) protection and take account of diverse constituencies and new technological realities. The committee is keen to receive proposals for papers that consider pluralistic notions of IPR and/or IP rationales that go beyond narrow utilitarian incentives. Topics may push the bounds of traditional expectations of the role of intellectual property and communications law (IPCL) in promoting or regulating the following: open access; free culture; the software movement; efforts to protect and enforce indigenous peoples traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, genetic resources, and/or United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN DRIP) assets and resources; or the navigation of diverse national traditions with respect to ownership/custodianship/stewardship/management of IP.
Proposals/abstracts are due by March 15, 2011. mw
