Stanford Center for Internet and Society

I have now been a non-resident fellow at CIS since 2004. I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where I am teaching Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Property.

My current research project focuses on unpublished works and the public domain. The first of what Iexpect will be a triology of articles will appear in the November issue of Cardozo Arts & Ent. LJ, and is titled, "January 1, 2003: The Birth of the Unpublished Public Domain, and Its International Implications." This is part of a larger book-project, "Copyright and a Scholar's Work," that looks at issues related to not only to scholars (although that is the lens of the piece) but also artists, documentary filmmakers, and others using and creating cultural materials in their work. This was the project I was funded to begin with a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Research Grant last year at the London School of Economics.

I am also working on a couple of smaller projects. First, Colette Vogele and I have an article in the J. of Internet Law on podcasting. My interest in podcasting focuses on podcasting in higher education, and in particular, podcasting the traditional classroom.

I am also working on an exercise for my Property law course at Seattle University using Second Life to explore the world of virtual property. I hope to bring the 100 students into Second Life in the spring and investigate the relationship between viritual and modern property first hand.

Finally, I have just been awarded a Justice Faculty Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Justice in Society at Seattle University to pursue research and be part of a group looking Global Bioethics as an Instrument of Social Justice with Annette Clark. I will focus on the "Doha Declaration," looking specifically at the intersection of patents, trade law, and health. This will be the research project I focus upon this Spring.