Stanford Law School

Stanford Center for Internet and Society

In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.

Yochai Benkler

by Lauren Gelman, posted on March 13, 2006 - 12:19pm

Monday March 13, 2006
12:30-1:30 PM
Room 280A
Stanford Law School
Open to All
Lunch Served

The talk will outline Benkler's argument that social production is reshaping the production of information and culture, offering new challenges and opportunities to market actors in the networked environment, while creating opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice. These results are by no means inevitable, however. A systematic campaign to protect the entrenched industrial information economy of the last century threatens the promise of today’s emerging networked information environment.
Yochai Benkler is professor of law at Yale and author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press March-April 2006).

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