Website of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain (CSPD) at Duke Law School in the United States. The Center was founded in 2002 and aims to "promote research and scholarship on the contributions of the public domain to speech, culture, science and innovation." The site gives details of lectures and conferences providing papers, Powerpoint presentations and webcasts (requires RealPlayer download) covering topics such as 'Music and Theft: Technology, Sampling and the Law' and 'How Law Constructs and Constrains Culture'. There is also information on the CSPD's research projects include public interest legal work, history and theory of the public domain and the Arts Project which looks at the effects of intellectual property on cultural production.
Center for the Study of the Public Domain
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