Next DC CopyNight Is Tuesday, October 28th at Teaism

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Hi CopyNighters,
I'll be taking a class this month and next so I can't be there next week, but the October CopyNight is in good hands. Shannon Simmons, a doctoral student at UMD's College of Information Studies, will lead a conversation on negative spaces in copyright. From Shannon:
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Over the past couple of years scholarly interest in negative spaces in intellectual property such as fashion, cuisine, comedy and magic has been growing. Each of these groups do fairly well despite the fact that they receive little to no copyright protection, having established their own community enforced protection mechanisms. While copyright is intended to help promote the progress of creative works, it has been argued that in some low ip-regimes such as the fashion industry copying actually helps to promote the swift cycle of innovation. What lessons, if any, can be taken from these negative spaces and applied to areas currently receiving copyright protection?
Links:
From the Boston Globe: Creative Vigilantes, Daniel Smith
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/12/23/creative_vigilantes/?page=full
University of Chicago Moblog on Negative Spaces:
http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2006/11/the_negative_sp.html
From Boing Boing: Magicians Innovate Without IP Law, David Pescovitz
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/12/magicians-innovate-w.html
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CopyNight DC
6:20 PM, Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Teaism - 400 8th St. NW (Chinatown or Archives Metro)
Till the next time,
Joseph Price
dc@copynight.org