7:45 a.m.

Registration and continental breakfast

8:30

Welcoming Remarks, William A. Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering

8:40

Symposium Overview, R. Stephen Berry, University of Chicago

8:50

Session 1: The Role, Value, and Limits of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain

Discussion Framework, Paul Uhlir, National Research Council

9:10

—in Society, James Boyle, Duke University School of Law

9:30

—for Innovation and the Economy

• Intellectual Property—When is it the Best Incentive Mechanism for Scientific and Technical Data and Information? Suzanne Scotchmer, University of California, Berkeley

• “Open Science” Economics and the Logic of the Public Domain in Research: A Primer, Paul David, Stanford University

10:15

BREAK

10:35

—for Innovation and the Economy

• Scientific Knowledge as a Global Public Good: Contributions to Innovation and the Economy, Dana Dalrymple, U.S. Agency for International Development

• Opportunities for Commercial Exploitation of Networked Science and Technology Public-Domain Information Resources, Rudolph Potenzone, LION Bioscience

11:20

Discussion of Issues from Presentations

12:00

LUNCH

1:00

—for Education and Research

• Education, Bertram Bruce, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Earth and Environmental Sciences, Francis Bretherton, University of Wisconsin

• Biomedical Research, Sherry Brandt-Rauf, Columbia University

2:00

Discussion of Issues from Presentations

2:30

Session 2: Pressures on the Public Domain

Discussion Framework, Jerome Reichman, Duke University School of Law

2:50

The Urge to Commercialize: Interactions between Public and Private Research and Development, Robert Cook-Deegan, Duke University

3:10

BREAK

3:30

Legal Pressures

• in Intellectual Property Law, Justin Hughes, Cardozo School of Law

• in Licensing, Susan Poulter, University of Utah School of Law

• in National Security Restrictions, David Heyman, Center for Strategic and International Studies

4:45

The Challenge of Digital Rights Management Technologies, Julie Cohen, Georgetown University School of Law

5:10

Discussion of Issues from Session 2

5:55

ADJOURN

6:00–7:30

RECEPTION

8:00 a.m.

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30

Session 3: Potential Effects of a Diminishing Public Domain

Discussion Framework, Paul Uhlir, National Research Council

8:50

—on Fundamental Research and Education, R. Stephen Berry, University of Chicago

9:20

—in Two Specific Areas of Research

• Environmental Information, Peter Weiss, National Weather Service

• Biomedical Research Data, Stephen Hilgartner, Cornell University

10:00

Discussion of Issues from Session 3

10:30

BREAK

11:00

Session 4: Responses by the Research and Education Communities in Preserving the Public Domain and Promoting Open Access

Discussion Framework, Jerome Reichman, Duke University School of Law

11:20

Strengthening Public-Domain Mechanisms in the Federal Government: A Perspective from Biological and Environmental Research, Daniel Drell, U.S. Department of Energy

11:45

Academics as a Natural Haven for Open Science and Public-Domain Resources: How Far Can We Stray? Tracy Lewis, University of Florida

12:10

LUNCH

1:00

New Legal Approaches in the Private Sector, Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University School of Law

1:20

Designing Public–Private Transactions that Foster Innovation, Stephen Maurer, Esq.

1:50

New Paradigms

—in Academia

• The Role of the Research University in Strengthening the Intellectual Commons: The OpenCourseWare and DSpace Initiatives at MIT, Ann Wolpert, MIT

• Emerging Models for Maintaining Scientific Data in the Public Domain, Harlan Onsrud, University of Maine

2:20

—in Industry

• Open-Source Software in Commerce, Bruce Perens, Hewlett Packard

• Corporate Donations of Geophysical Data, Shirley Dutton, University of Texas at Austin

• The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Consortium, Michael Morgan, Wellcome Trust

3:20

BREAK

3:30

Discussion of Issues from Session 4

4:00

Closing Remarks, R. Stephen Berry, University of Chicago

4:15

ADJOURN