PRIVATE CENSORSHIP AND PERFECT CHOICE:
THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET?
A CONVERSATION WITH
JAMES BOYLE AND ADRIENNE DAVIS

Friday, March 28, 2003, 3:30 p.m.
Room 3043 Law School, (Reception to Follow)

From Napster and Kazaa to the attempts to create a never-before-contemplated property right, from the plan to mandate digital superegos in every computer to proposals that would end Net anonymity in order to prevent piracy, the key issues in Internet regulation have been fought out on the terrain of intellectual property.

For the last 12 years, James Boyle, the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke, has been writing and speaking about these issues, arguing for a new “environmentalism for the information age” that “first seeks to invent the public domain and then to save it.” In conversation with UNC Law Professor Adrienne Davis, a frequent commentator on controversial issues of private law, property, and social power, Boyle will discuss this shifting landscape, touching on both today’s battles and the broader attempts to develop a scholarship and a public-interest movement around the commons of the mind.

The program will include the opportunity for questions from the audience.