Upcoming Public Domain Conferences and Workshops

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

*September 10, 2002!* is the Early Registration Deadline for the first
Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop: 
The Shrinking Public Domain
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002

The first online workshop in this series, The Shrinking Public Domain,
will be moderated by Laura N. Gasaway, Esq., Law Professor and Director
of the Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and
will run from September 16, 2002 to October 4, 2002. Participants will
receive daily response and feedback from workshop moderators. In
addition, each workshop will include live chats with the workshop
moderators and invited guests. This is an online, asynchronous seminar
in which participants are active at times convenient to them. 

The syllabus for this workshop is available at:
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/syllabus_pd.pdf

For additional information call 301-985-7777 or 1-800-283-6832,
extension 7777 or visit our web site at
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/

Sponsored by the Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC
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Thursday, September 5
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM. Day one of a two day conference titled "Symposium on
the Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public
Domain" hosted by the National Academy of Sciences. See, agenda.
Location: National Academy of Sciences Auditorium, 2100 C Street NW.

For more information consult:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/biso/Public%20Domain%20Symposium.html