New Directions in Humanities Research: Some Rights Reserved - Creative Commons Copyright

The New Directions in Humanities Research lecture series highlights current trends in humanities computing and issues of concern to scholars working in the digital age. This Fall series will begin with the topic of intellectual property. Glenn Brown, director of the Creative Commons and Lecturer, Stanford Law School, will present: "Some Rights Reserved - Creative Commons Copyright. Glenn Otis Brown has been Executive Director of Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) since Summer 2002. Creative Commons is a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Like the free software and open-source movements, Creative Commons participants work to offer creators a "best-of-both worlds" way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them, including the academic idea of "fair use."

Glenn Brown is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches a class on Creative Commons and free and open-source software licensing with Lawrence Lessig.

For more information about the series and future speakers including Julia Flanders (Brown University), Stefan Sinclair (University of Alberta), and David Rumsey (Cartography Associaates), see our web site, http://shc.stanford.edu . The series is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, with additional funding provided by Academic Computing, English, and Interdisciplinary Studies.