Law School Launches 'National Cyber-Education Project' As Grokster Decision Handed Down
June 27, 2005
The Intellectual Property Institute at University of Richmond’s School of Law has launched the National CyberEducation Project (NCEP), an interdisciplinary, grassroots effort to engage college campuses in discussion of intellectual property issues.
Because debate over intellectual property issues in the digital age—often about file-sharing of music and movies—appears to reflect a new generation gap, the project focuses on educational efforts to bridge that gap. It also will produce conferences, articles, blogs, education kits and other student-oriented, campus-centric programs and materials.
The project’s website—law.richmond.edu/ipi/cybered—provides news and educational tools about intellectual property in the digital age, including articles, opinion columns and briefs written by Richmond’s law dean, Rod Smolla, and law professor James Gibson on the file-sharing case, MGM Studios v. Grokster, decided today by the U.S. Supreme Court. Video of "Copyright in Cyberspace," a panel discussion featuring Marybeth Peters, federal register of copyrights; Don Verrilli, the attorney who argued Grokster for the entertainment industry; and American University law professor Peter Jaszi, also is available on the site.
NCEP is administered by Richmond’s law school in collaboration with The Media Institute, a Washington-based nonprofit foundation that promotes freedom of expression.
For more information, visit the Web site at http://law.richmond.edu/ipi/cybered, or write to ipiinfo@richmond.edu.