Description

From medieval times to Thomas Jefferson to today's digital revolution, scholarship and research have given rise to intellectual property that is different in fundamental ways from the properties of writers and entertainers such as Alice Munro or Justin Bieber. What distinguishes the intellectual properties involved in learning? How does intellectual property of the academy earn and retain its value? The intellectual properties of learning are now taking on greater legal prominence, through various open access initiatives, with profound implications for what, where, and how we teach, as well as the ways in which we publish. Learn more about what promises to be the great digital opening of the university to the world at large.

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About the Speaker

John Willinsky, Ph.D., is an educator, activist for open access and award-winning author. He is Khosla Family Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, a fellow at the Royal Society of Canada and director of the University of British Columbia Public Knowledge Project, the aim of which is to assist in the improvement of quality and accessibility of academic research. His books include The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research and Technologies of Knowing.

Image: Sanger Series: The Intellectual Properties of Learning, by Jeff Bland