Intellectual Property Law

?The Commons: Celebrating Accomplishments, Discerning Futures?

By Lee.Gesmer

My partners Andy Updegrove, Peter Moldave and I attended this event at Harvard the evening of Friday, December 13, 2008. We could have waited a few days and watched the event on YouTube, but then we would have missed the cold weather, the greatest ice storm in modern Massachusetts history, the difficult parking and, well ….

It was actually a great deal of fun, and looking around the room at the 150 or so people that attended there appeared to be relatively few lawyers, a fact that made us feel superior, as if we were really part of the Harvard cognoscenti. (How could we tell there weren’t many lawyers there? - the number of people who had that useless, predatory look common to lawyers was minimal.)

Speakers were: Jonathan Zittrain, moderator, panelists James Boyle, Lawrence Lessig and Molly S. Van Houweling, and Special Guests Elena Kagan and Charles Nesson.

Full post as published by Mass Law Blog on December 19, 2008 (boomark / email).