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EDUCAUSE Live! February 15, 2007 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

The Information Commons and the Future of Innovation, Scholarship, and Creativity

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Gigi SohnGigi Sohn
President and Founder
Public Knowledge

Gigi B. Sohn is the cofounder and president of Public Knowledge, a nonprofit organization that addresses the public’s stake in the convergence of communications policy and intellectual property law. She is a nonresident fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center and a senior fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law, Graduate Studies Program in Melbourne, Australia. She has also been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, in New York City.

Sohn previously served as a project specialist in the Ford Foundation’s Media, Arts, and Culture unit and as executive director of the Media Access Project, a Washington, D.C.–based public interest telecommunications law firm that represents citizens’ rights. She currently serves on the boards of directors of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference and the Broadcasters’ Child Development Center and on the advisory boards of the Future of Music Coalition and the Center for Public Integrity’s Well Connected telecommunications project. Sohn served on the District of Columbia Bar Board of Governors from 1997 to 2000. She holds a BS in broadcasting and film, summa cum laude, from the Boston University College of Communication and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Gigi Sohn, and the topic will be "The Information Commons and the Future of Innovation, Scholarship, and Creativity."

This seminar will discuss how intellectual property law and communications policy affect competition, innovation, creativity, and free speech. Gigi B. Sohn will discuss current policy debates before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the U.S. Copyright Office that could impact these values and the higher education community.

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