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The Intellectual Property Colloquium on Patents Copyrights and Technology : Free CLE Podcast on IP : Professor Doug Lichtman : UCLA Law School

By Andis Kaulins

We are very impressed by the digital legal innovation that is apparent at UCLA Law School. They seem to have a law faculty at the cutting edge.

One of their new online innovations is by Professor Doug Lichtman, who has "started a free CLE podcast on intellectual property topics". We find this to be really great so we are spreading the word.

The website is Intellectual Property Colloquium.
Go there now and check it out.

NOT OPERATIVE. GO TO Intellectual Property Colloquium

As Doug Lichtman writes:

"[E]ach month we post an hour-long conversation about an important patent, copyright, or technology topic. The format varies, but typically the show is built around one or several conversations between me and relevant guests. Our January show, for instance, was a one-on-one discussion with the Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit about his court and how it is helping to evolve patent law. Our current show is an, uhm, lively thirty-minute conversation about copyright law's statutory damages regime between me and Harvard's Charlie Nesson, followed by clips from four other interviews I did with relevant academics and even the General Counsel of the RIAA. Our very first show was a live show with Fred von Lohmann of the EFF, me, and an audience of about thirty people, including students and faculty at UCLA.

One charm of the site is that we offer completely free CLE credit to lawyers who listen. All of our previous shows qualify in New York, California, Texas, Illinois, and Washington, and we plan to add more states later this year. That's not itself a reason to listen, obviously, but it is an added perk for lawyers who might need that extra nudge in order to justify spending the time.

I'm really excited with the shows (we are getting better all the time)....

The site is at www.ipcolloquium.com. You can download or stream the shows from there, and there is also an archive of our older shows in case any of those might catch your eye as good blog fodder."

Sounds good.

Full post as published by LawPundit on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).