8:30

Breakfast

9:00

Welcoming Remarks

• Prof. Peter K. Yu, Michigan State University College of Law & Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University

9:15

Session I

• Prof. Mark F. Schultz, Southern Illinois University School of Law

"Liberty, Property, and Intellectual Property"

• Prof. Ned Snow, University of Arkansas School of Law

"Internet Copytraps"

• Prof. Peter K. Yu, Michigan State University College of Law & Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University

"New Media at the Turn of the Century"

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

Session II

• Prof. Derek E. Bambauer, Wayne State University Law School

"Faulty Math: Analyzing Copyright's Economic Calculus for Derivative Works"

• Prof. Adam Candeub, Michigan State University College of Law

"Media Ownership Regulation, the First Amendment, and Democracy's Future"

• Prof. Spencer Weber Waller, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

"Essential Facilities, Infrastructure, and Open Access" (with Brett Frischmann)

Published as: Revitalizing Essential Facilities, 75 Antitrust Law Journal 1 (forthcoming 2008)

1:15

Lunch

2:15

Session III

• Prof. John T. Cross, University of Louisville School of Law

"Finding a Place for 'Exclusive Stories' in a Modern Intellectual
Property Regime"

• Prof. Doris E. Long, John Marshall Law School & Michigan State
  University College of Law (visiting)

"Dissonant Harmonization: Limitations on Cash 'n Carry Creativity"

• Katja Weckstrom, Visiting Fellow, Chicago-Kent College of Law

"The Lawfulness of Criticizing Big Business: Exploring the Societal Interests Behind Trademark Protection with an Eye on Fundamental Rights"

 

Published as: The Lawfulness of Criticizing Big Business: Comparing Approaches to the Balancing of Societal Interests Behind Trademark Protection, 11 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 671 (2007)

4:00

Coffee Break

4:30

Session IV

• Prof. Kevin E. Collins, Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington

"Patenting Reflexive Acts of Thinking: Did You Mean to Think That?"

• Prof. Eileen M. Kane, Penn State Dickinson School of Law

"Patentable Subject Matter: Border Conflicts Revisited"

• Prof. Andrew W. Torrance, University of Kansas School of Law

"Sovereign Immunity from Patent Infringement on Indigenous Tribal Lands"

7:00

Dinner Reception

Restaurant Villegas

1735 Grand River Avenue, Okemos, MI

8:30

Breakfast

9:15

Session V

• Prof. Cameron Hutchison, University of Alberta Faculty of Law

"Lessons from the Blackberry Litigation" (with Moin Yahya)

• Prof. Adam Mossoff, Michigan State University College of Law

“Patents, Property and Property Theory”

• Prof. Kristen Osenga, University of Richmond School of Law

"The Componentization of Information"

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

Session VI

• Prof. Deven Desai, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

"It's MySpace or Is It?: An Investigation of Digital Personas and the Descendability of Digital Rights"

• Prof. Ira Nathenson, St. Thomas Univ. School of Law

"Remix Culture and the Opt-Out Option: Is Fair Use Becoming Fairer?"

• Martine Courant Rife, Ph.D. Candidate, Michigan State University

"Is There a Chilling of Digital Communication? Exploring How Knowledge and Understanding of Fair Use May Influence Technical Communication"

1:15

Lunch

2:15

Roundtable Adjourned

5:00

Dinner Reception

Dusty's Cellar

1839 W Grand River, Okemos, MI