Innovate / Activate 2.0

April 20-21, 2012 at University of California, Berkeley 

Save the date! After the successes of Innovate / Activate, an Unconference on Intellectual Property and Activism held at New York Law School in September 2010, New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law & Policy and Berkeley Law’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic are pleased to present Innovate / Activate 2.0. This year's event is generously supported by Google, the Yale Law School Information Society Project and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. 

 About the event: Intellectual property regimes seek to benefit society through a variety of incentives, from improving access to encouraging innovation to preserving public knowledge. However, evidence has been building to suggest that there are substantial flaws in the design and implementation of various IP regimes, leading to failures in policy and harms to the public. As a result, active communities have formed to address these shortcomings and the important issues they raise, such as the tension between free speech and efforts to expand copyright’s scope and enforcement tools; the importance of fair use and follow-on creativity; the role of alternative licensing systems such as Creative Commons or the GNU Public License; the appropriateness of patent protection for software and business methods; and the conflict between overpatenting of pharmaceuticals and broad access to medicines and diagnostic technologies. But there’s much more that can be done.

Innovate / Activate is about sharing, discussing, and reexamining our approaches to improving global welfare through identifying new and existing IP-related activism efforts, developing strategies for overcoming IP obstacles, and delivering practical solutions to spur change.
 

For all of the details about this spring’s conference, including a list of all of our great intellectual sponsors and information on registration and logistics, please check out innovateactivate.org.

Don’t forget to follow I/A on twitter @innact to get exciting I/A-related news and updates about this year’s conference.

Innovate / Activate 1.0

The inaugural Innovate / Activate took place September 24-25, 2010 at New York Law School. For those of you who missed out on the fun, we captured all of the panels and presentations and they're neatly organized and available for you under the "Videos" section, or by clicking HERE.

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