Conference on the Public Domain

About the conference

The last fifteen years has seen a rise in both the importance and the strength of intellectual property rights in the world economy; rights have expanded in areas ranging from the human genome to the Internet and have been strengthened with legally backed digital fences, lengthened copyright terms and increased penalties. Is this expansion of intellectual property necessary to respond to new copying technologies, and desirable because it will produce investment and innovation? Must we privatize the public domain to avoid a “tragedy of the commons,” or can the technologies of cheap copying and global networks actually make common pool management more efficient than legal monopolies? Questions such as these have thrown attention on the “other side” of intellectual property: the public domain. What does the public domain do? What is its importance, its history, its role in science, art, and in the building of the Internet? How is the public domain similar to and different from the idea of a commons? This conference, the first major meeting to focus squarely on the topic of the public domain, will try to answer some of these questions in areas ranging from the human genome to appropriationist art, from the production of scientific data to the architecture of our communications networks. For each panel, “focus papers” will be produced by authorities in the field and made available on the Internet before the event in order to generate discussion.

Conference Schedule

Friday, November 9th

9:00am-9:30am
Registration

9:30-10:15am 
The Second Enclosure Movement? [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/boyle.pdf ]

The first enclosure movement, a state-backed conversion of common lands into privately held property, had a complex history. Though it disrupted the life of the village in a way that many observers found inhumane, it also allowed new and more efficient methods of production, greater investment in farming and larger agricultural yields. Some observers believe that we are now in the middle of a second enclosure movement, an enclosure of the commons of the mind by ever-expanding intellectual property rights. Will this enclosure give us the same productive gains as the first — an explosion of scientific and technical innovation? Or will it lead to legal deadlock, actually hurting creative development?

• James Boyle Duke Law School

Phase I: Framing The Issues

10:20am–12:00pm
The History and Theory of the Public Domain: From Cheap Books to the Comedy of the Commons

This panel reviews the history and theory of the public domain and of the commons, from early discussions of the importance of limiting intellectual property rights, to contemporary interdisciplinary literature on the operation of common property regimes — ranging from environmental policy over the management of atmosphere or fisheries, to analysis of the free software and open source software movements.

• Mark Rose University of California, Santa Barbara
• David Lange Duke Law School
• Jessica Litman Wayne State Law School
• Carol Rose Yale Law School, Romans, Roads, And Romantic Creators: Traditions of Public Property in The Information Age [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/rose.pdf ]
• Elinor Ostrom Indiana University
  Focus Paper: Governing the Intellectual Commons [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/ostromhes.pdf ] (with Charlotte Hess)

12:00-1:15pm
Lunch
3rd & 4th floor Loggia

1:20pm-3:00pm
The State of the Public Domain: A Report

This panel sets up the subsequent discussion by describing the current state and role of the public domain in three areas — the digital realm, science and innovation, and art and cultural policy.

• Pamela Samuelson University of California.
  Focus Paper: Assaults on the Digital Public Domain [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/samuelson.pdf ]
• Jerome Reichman Duke Law School, and Paul Uhlir, National Research Council.
  Focus Paper: The Public Domain in Science and Innovation Policy [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/ReichmanandUhlir.pdf ]
• Mark Hosler Negativland.
  Focus Paper: The Public Domain in Art and Cultural Policy [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/hoslerjoy.pdf ] (paper with Don Joyce)

3:15-5:15
Subject Area Study 1: Creativity, Appropriation, Culture and The Public Domain

This panel, which includes artists, industry representatives, and scholars of culture and intellectual property, will consider ways in which the distance between copyright and the culture of appropriation may be bridged.

• Rosemary Coombe York University, Toronto
• David Nimmer UCLA Law School
• Cary Sherman Recording Industry Association of America
• David Lange Duke Law School (moderator)
  Focus Paper: David Lange & Jennifer Lange Anderson, Copyright, Fair Use, and Transformative Critical Appropriation [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/langeand.pdf ]

Reception 6:30pm
Washington Duke Inn

Dinner 7:30 pm
Washington Duke Inn

Saturday, November 10th

9am-10:30
Subject Area Study 2: Commodification of the Public Domain: The Challenge for Science and Innovation

This panel will continue to examine the challenge to science and innovation posed by a shrinking public domain. Papers will focus on developments in biotechnology and on legal, economic, and technical impediments to researchers’ access to scientific and technical databases.

• Arti Rai University of Pennsylvania Law School.
  Focus Paper: The Public Domain in Biotechnology Research [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/raieisen.pdf ] (paper with Rebecca Eisenberg)
• Paul Uhlir National Research Council Harlan J. Onsrud University of Maine Engineering
• Stephen Berry University of Chicago, Chemistry
• Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss New York University School of Law

Coffee

10:45-12:15
Subject Area Study 3: From Anarchist Software to Peer2Peer Culture: the Public Domain in Bandwidth, Software and Content

This panel deals with the different roles that the public domain has to play on a global network. How are we to manage the hardware and bandwidth on which the content flows, the software and protocols that create the network, and the content — the texts, songs, pictures and movies — that reside on the network?

• Eben Moglen Columbia Law School
• Brian Cantwell Smith Duke University
• La Larry Lessig Stanford Law School.
  Focus Paper: The Architecture of Innovation [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/lessig.pdf ]
• Yochai Benkler New York University School of Law (moderator)
  "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm" [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/Coase's_Penguin.pdf ]

Phase II: Developing Solutions

12:20-1:50
Lunch: Two Concurrent Roundtables

1. Public Domain Activism
This roundtable, which brings together some of the most prominent digital activists and public interest lawyers, will explore the various attempts to build an activist movement around intellectual property and public domain issues.

• Caspar Bowden Foundation for Information Policy Research
• Jonathan Tasini National Writers Union
• Gigi Sohn Public Knowledge
• Robin Gross Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Manon Ress
• Jeff Chester Center for Digital Democracy
• Jennifer Toomey Future of Music Coalition
• Marc Rotenberg Electronic Privacy Information Center
• David Bollier Public Knowledge, New America Foundation

12:20-1:50

2. Constructing an E-Commons for Science: Concepts and Strategies
This roundtable will focus on possible solutions to the problems affecting researchers’ access to scientific and technical data, with a view to preserving the tradition of full and open exchange among scientists by various forms of collective action.

• Laura N. Gasaway University of North Carolina
• David Post Temple University
• Steven Maurer Attorney
• Anita R. Eisenstadt The National Science Foundation
• Jane B. Griffith National Library of Medicine
• Barbara Simons Association for Computing Machinery

2:00-3:30pm
Constitutionalizing the Public Domain

Congress may not authorize the issuance of patents whose effects are to remove existent knowledge from the public domain, or to restrict free access to materials already available. — Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas City, 383 U.S. 1, 5-6 (Sup. Ct., 1966) One response to the contraction of the public domain has been to argue that there are constitutional limits on intellectual property. The panel will explore the likely future of constitutional law and theory as it applies to the public domain.

• Yochai Benkler New York University Law School.
  Focus Paper: The Constitutionalization of the Public Domain [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/benkler.pdf ]
• William Van Alystne Duke Law School
• H. Jefferson Powell Duke Law School
• Jed Rubenfeld Yale Law School
• Larry Lessig Stanford Law School (moderator)

3:30-:345 pm
Break

3:45-5:00pm
Reimagining the Public Domain

The last panel aims to provoke discussion by proposing some concrete (and not-so-concrete) next steps in the study, analysis and protection of the public domain.

• Julie Cohen Georgetown University Law School
• James Boyle Duke Law School
• John Perry Barlow Electronic Frontier Foundation
• David Bollier Public Knowledge, New America Foundation (moderator)

5:00-5:30pm
Open Discussion

6:30-7:30pm
Reception
Washington Duke Inn

Sunday 11th November

Informal Roundtables
9:30-11:30
Lunch will be served and the conference will conclude at 1pm.

The conference’s formal sessions and discussion papers aim to generate discussion and scholarship about the role of the public domain. On Sunday, we will continue the discussion informally in a set of roundtables around issues of particular interest.

Topics Will Include

• Setting up a Creative Commons: Eric Saltzman, Berkman Center, Harvard Law School
• Availability of Scientific Data: Future Planning: Paul Uhlir, National Academies

Open Event
Roundtable on Appropriationist Film
Art Crime/Crime Art: Nuestra Hernandez & Negativland
Sunday Nov 11, 9:30-11:30 am
Duke Law School
Open to the whole Duke Community
With a showing of Nuestra Hernandez (a new movie by David Lange & others) and some new work by Negativland, followed by a panel discussion featuring David Lange, Jane Gaines, Mark Hosler and Laurie Racine.

• David Lange is Professor of Law at Duke University, where he has been a member of the faculty of the School of Law for 28 years. Prior to joining the Duke faculty he worked as a writer, producer, director and production coordinator in radio, television and motion picture production; as a practicing lawyer, with an emphasis in media law. He is the author of many articles including Recognizing the Public Domain and Cyberspace and Its Discontents: The Future of an Illusion.

• Jane Gaines is Professor of Literature and English, and directs the Film and Video Program at Duke, which she founded in 1985. Her interests are film, television theory, feminist theory, critical legal studies, and cultural studies. She is the author of many articles and books including Contested Culture: The Image the Voice and the Law, (1991) for which she received the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award for best new book in film studies. She just completed a book on silent film history titled Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era (Chicago, 2000).

• Mark Hosler is a founding member of the appropriationist group Negativland and an audio/visual/collage artist/musician/activist. Negativland have been sued twice for copyright infringement and have, since 1991, been actively involved in advocating significant reforms in our nations copyright laws. He is one of the co-authors of "Fair Use:The Story Of The Letter U And The Numeral 2" by Negativland.

• Laurie Racine is the President of the Center for the Public Domain. Apart from her prior careers in science, education, and healthcare policy Ms. Racine was also the former educational consultant to DoubleTake Magazine. . During her tenure there, she co-founded the DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival and served as its Managing Director. The DDFF is now the largest documentary film festival in the country. She continues as a Director and Secretary for the corporation, Documentary Arts.

Paticipants Include

• John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May of 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. (Web Site http://www.eff.org/~barlow/)
• Yochai Benkler is Professor at the New York University School of Law. He is the Director of the Information Law Institute and writes widely about communications policy, constitutional law and peer-to-peer production. (Web Site http://www.law.nyu.edu/benklery/)
• Stephen Berry is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago, and is Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences. (Web Site http://chemistry.uchicago.edu/fac/berry.shtml)
• David Bollier is Co-Founder of Public Knowledge, the new advocacy organization for the information commons, and author of the forthcoming Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (Routledge). Bollier is also Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication’s Norman Lear Center and Director of the Information Commons Project at the New America Foundation. (Web Site http://entertainment.usc.edu/projects/ato/bollier.html)
• Caspar Bowden is Director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, a non-profit think-tank for UK and European Internet policy. (Web Site http://www.fipr.org/)
• James Boyle is a Professor at Duke Law School and the author of Shamans, Software and Spleens; Law and the Construction of the Information Society (Harvard University Press). (Web Site http://james-boyle.com/)
• Jeff Chester is Executive Director of the nonprofit Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), based in Washington, DC. Through research, advocacy, and public education, CDD works to ensure that the digital media serve the public interest. It is currently focusing on preserving the Internet’s open architecture in the new broadband environment, and on the establishment of a noncommercial, interactive “online commons” for the free exchange of ideas and information among citizens. (Web Site http://www.cme.org/access/index_acc.html)
• Julie Cohen is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She teaches and writes about intellectual property law and data privacy law, with particular focus on computer software and digital works and on the intersection of copyright, privacy, and the First Amendment in cyberspace. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, she was an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. (Web Site http://data.law.georgetown.edu/curriculum/tab_faculty.cfm?Status=Faculty&Detail=232)
• Rosemary Coombe is Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies at York University in Toronto. Her work on law, culture and appropriation is central to a contemporary understanding of the commons in intellectual property. Her most recent book is The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law (Duke Press, 1998). (Web Site http://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty/coombe.htm)
• Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at N.Y.U. School of Law. A former chemist, her research interests include intellectual property, civil procedure, privacy, and the relationship between science and law. She is currently a member of a panel of the National Academy of Sciences exploring the appropriate limits of intellectual property rights. (Web Site http://www.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/fulltime/dreyfussr.html)
• Rebecca Eisenberg is the Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She is co-authoring the focus paper on biotechnology (with Rai). (Web Site http://www.nsf.gov/)
• Anita R. Eisenstadt has served as Assistant General Counsel at the National Science Foundation since 1990. She has represented the Foundation on a wide range of issues related to intellectual property rights and database protection. Ms. Eisenstadt coordinates NSF responses to draft legislation and works closely with the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology Policy on intellectual property issues. (Web Site http://www.cme.org/access/index_acc.html)
• Laura N. Gasaway (Lolly) has been Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina since 1985. She teaches courses in Intellectual Property and Cyberspace Law in the law school and Law Librarianship and Legal Resources in the School of Information and Library Science. (Web Site http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/gasaway.htm)
• Jane B. Griffith is the Assistant Director for Policy Development at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Prior to joining NLM, she worked at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress for over 25 years, where she was a Specialist in Information Technology Policy and held several senior management positions. Ms. Griffith also served on special assignments as the Interim Director of the National Research Council’s (NRC) Computer Science and Telecommun-ications Board and as the Director of the Task Force on NRC Goals and Operations. (Web Site http://www.nlm.nih.gov/)
• Robin Gross is an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading cyber-liberties organization. She specializes in intellectual property policy and digital music legal issues. She serves as Director of EFF’s Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFÉ), which she launched in June of 1999 to explore the intersection of intellectual property law and freedom of expression related to the use of digital technology. (Web Site http://www.eff.org/)
• Charlotte Hess is Director of Library Services and Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington and the author of Common Pool Resources & Collective Action. She is co-authoring a paper on the intellectual property commons. (Web Site http://silver.ucs.indiana.edu/~hess/)
• Mark Hosler is a member of the appropriationist group Negativland and one of the authors of Fair Use by Negativland. (Web Site http://www.negativland.com/)
• David Lange is Professor of Law at Duke Law School and a writer, producer, director and production coordinator in radio, television and motion pictures. Twenty years ago, his article Recognizing the Public Domain initiated contemporary legal study of the subject. (Web Site http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/lange/index.html)
• Larry Lessig is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is the author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace and, most recently, of The Future of Ideas. (Web Site http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessigbio.html)
• Jessica Litman is Professor of Law at Wayne State Law School and author of Digital Copyright (Prometheus Books 2001). Among her most recent articles are Information Privacy/Information Property and Breakfast with Batman®: The Public Interest in the Advertising Age. (Web Site http://www.law.wayne.edu/litman/)
• Steven Maurer is a California attorney specializing in intellectual property litigation who prepared a law and economics study of proposed database legislation for the National Research Council in 1998. Since then, he has specialized in studying scientific databases and how they interact with commercial incentives, and he recently completed a study of the EU’s database law for Industry Canada. He has also worked with scientists on practical efforts to build and commercialize advanced databases in physics and biology.
• Eben Moglen is a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. He is the author, among many other articles, of Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright. (Web Site http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/)
• David Nimmer is Of Counsel to Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, and Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA. Currently the author of Nimmer on Copyright (10 vols., Matthew Bender), he also comments frequently on contemporary issues in copyright and intellectual property. (Web Site http://www.irell.com/attorneys/ShowLawyer.asp?AID=118)
• Harlan J. Onsrud is Professor of Spatial Information Science and Engineering at the University of Maine and a research scientist with the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). A scientist, engineer, and attorney, his research focuses on the analysis of legal, ethical, and institutional issues affecting the creation and use of digital spatial databases and the assessment of the social impacts of spatial technologies. He chairs the U.S. National Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA). (Web Site http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~onsrud/)
• Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington. Her book Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990), and her subsequent work on the subject, has had a dramatic effect on environmental policy. She will be commenting on the use of the commons literature to analyze intellectual property and public domain issues (with Hess). (Web Site http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/ostrom.html)
• David Post is Professor of Law at Temple University where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace, and a Senior Fellow at the Tech Center at George Mason University Law School. He is also Co-Founder and Co-Editor of ICANN Watch, the Cyberspace Law Institute, and Disputes Organization. (Web Site http://techcenter.gmu.edu/about/contacts/post_david.html)
• H. Jefferson Powell has been a member of the Duke faculty since 1987. He has served in both the federal and state governments, as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Special Counsel to the Attorney General of North Carolina; he has briefed and argued cases in both federal and state courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. (Web Site http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/powell/index.html)
• Laurie Racine is the President of the Center for the Public Domain. Before joining the Center, she was the Director of the Health Sector Management Program at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University. She has spent many years as a consultant concentrating in the arts, education and health care. (Web Site http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org/home.html)
• Arti Rai is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. She writes on patent law, biotechnology, health care regulation, and intellectual property in cyberspace. She will be writing with Rebecca Eisenberg, on the public domain in biotechnology research. (Web Site http://www.acusd.edu/~arai/)
• Jerome Reichman is Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law at Duke Law School. His latest writings stress the need for new liability rules to stimulate investment in small-scale innovation not susceptible to trade secret protection in order to cure market failure. He has been special advisor to the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the International Council for Science (ICSU) on the subject of legal protection for databases. (Web Site http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/reichman/)
• Manon Ress works for Essential Information, a Washington, DC- based non-profit created about 20 years ago by Ralph Nader and John Richard. Essential Information provides information to journalists, activists and consumers all over the world (http://www.essential.org).She works on various e-commerce and consumer protection issues such as the definition of consumers, unfair contracts and tort liabilities and on issues related to internet governance such as free speech, privacy protections and fair use rights. Since October 2000, she has been a consumer representative on the US Delegation to the Proposed Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters.
• Carol Rose is Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Among her many articles is The Comedy of the Commons, a reexamination of Hardin’s famous Tragedy of the Commons to identify those cases in which common property regimes actually work better than exclusionary private property regimes. (Web Site http://crossroader.law.yale.edu/yls/fac-member.jsp?f_id=57)
• Mark Rose is Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright, one of the most distinguished histories of the development of ideas about copyright. (Web Site http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/rose/bio.htm)
• Marc Rotenberg is Director (and Founder) of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and one of the world’s leading authorities on privacy issues. (Web Site http://www.epic.org/)
• Jed Rubenfeld is Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His work on privacy, affirmative action and constitutional interpretation has reshaped the debate in each of these fields. His book Freedom and Time: A Theory of Constitutional Self-Government was published by Yale University Press in March, 2001. (Web Site http://www.law.yale.edu/yls/fac-member.jsp?f_id=60)
• Eric Saltzman is the Executive Director of Harvard's Center on Internet and Society. A former criminal defense attorney, and documentary film-maker, Mr. Saltzman produced and directed "The Shooting of Big Man: Anatomy of a Criminal Case." (Web Site http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/saltzman.html)
• Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management and Systems and the School of Law. She is also Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Her principal area of expertise is intellectual property law. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes and is an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. (Web Site http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/pam)
• Cary Sherman is Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel to the Recording Industry Association of America. Formerly a senior partner and head of the Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group of Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., he has devoted his professional career to copyright and related issues. (Web Site http://www.riaa.org/index.cfm)
• Brian Cantwell Smith is the Kimberly Jenkins Professor of New Technologies and Society at Duke University. Before coming to Duke he was principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, and the first President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. (Web Site http://www.ageofsig.org/people/bcsmith/)
• Gigi Sohn is the President of Public Knowledge, a new nonprofit organization that will represent the public’s perspective on intellectual property and related matters. A former Executive Director of the Media Access Project and Ford Foundation Project Specialist, Ms. Sohn is also an Adjunct Professor at Cardozo Law School, where she teaches a course on federal regulation of the electronic media, and a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law, Graduate Studies Program.
• Jonathan Tasini has been President of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981) since 1990. He is a labor and economics writer whose work has appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines. He was the lead plaintiff in a recent Supreme Court case about freelance authors’ rights in online databases. (Web Site http://www.nwu.org/)
• Jennifer Toomey is an activist, musician and the Executive Director of the Future of Music Coalition. From 1990 to 1998, she co-ran Simple Machines, an independent record label. She is a member of the board of The Low Power Radio Coalition, performed in several bands including Tsunami, and has written extensively about music and Internet technology. (Web Site http://www.jennytoomey.com/)
• Paul Uhlir is Director of International Scientific and Technical Information Programs at The National Research Council in Washington, D.C., where he directs policy studies and related activities for the federal government. (Web Site http://www.nas.edu/nrc/)
• William Van Alystne is the William R. & Thomas S. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School and one of the pre-eminent First Amendment and constitutional law scholars in the United States. His professional writings have appeared during four decades in the principal law journals in the United States with frequent republication in foreign journals.. (Web Site http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/vanalstyne/)

Further Information

Please use the conference name when making your reservations to receive the special rates. Space is limited, so please register early.

The Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club
3001 Cameron Boulevard
Durham, NC 27706
Telephone: (919) 490-0999
Toll-free: (800) 443-3853

The Millennium Hotel (formally the Regal University)
2800 Campus Walk Avenue
Durham, NC 27705
Telephone: (919) 383-8575

Parking and Directions

Parking is very limited on the Duke campus. We suggest parking at the Washington Duke Inn and walking down to the Law School. The walk will take approximately 5 minutes.

There is a visitor parking lot across from the Fuqua School of Business (right side of Science Dr., between 751 and Whitford Drive), but it fills up quickly.

Law School Directions:
http://www.law.duke.edu/guide/visitor.html

Washington Duke Location and Directions:
http://www.washingtondukeinn.com/contact.html

For more information

For more information on the conference, accommodations, or the Durham area, please contact the Conference on the Public Domain office at:

The Conference on the Public Domain
Duke University Law School
Box 90360
Durham, NC 27708-0360
Telephone: (919) 613-7206
Fax: (919) 613-7271/7231
E-mail: WOJCIECH@law.duke.edu

Registration

The Conference on the Public Domain will be held November 9-11, 2001 at Duke Law School in Durham, North Carolina. To register for the conference click here [ http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/register.html ]

Due to space constraints, the conference can accommodate only 120 registrants. Confirmation will be emailed to all registrants. Hotel reservations should be made directly with the area hotels.

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