[A2k] Communia First International Conference on the Public Domain in the Digital Age

[melanie dulong de rosnay]

Sorry for crossposting

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The COMMUNIA Project is planning its First International Conference
on the Public Domain in the Digital Age in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium,
on Monday 30 June and Tuesday 1 July 2008.

The event is co-organised by the COMMUNIA Thematic Network and the
Global Information Commons for Science - EU activities (GICSI-EU).

The main theme is the Assessment of economic and social impact of
digital public domain open access initiatives throughout Europe, in
particular by using the wealth of information on contract practices,
successful and failed institutional experiments, and other activities
developed within COMMUNIA network itself.

Some of the confirmed speakers are: Paul David (Senior Fellow, Oxford
Internet Institute), Rishab Ghosh (Senior Researcher, UNU-Merit),
Eric Brousseau (Universit=E9 de Paris X), Karel De Vriend (European
Commission, Directorate General for Informatics), Marco Ricolfi
(Turin University), Philippe Aigrain (Sopinspace, Society for Public
Information Spaces).

The event is free and open to the public.
The registration deadline is 15 June 2008.

For more information, full program and registration, please visit:
http://communia-project.eu/conf2008/

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Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Ph.D.
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu