British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
WHO OWNS ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE?
The 38th British Academy Conversazione
Dame Marilyn Strathern, FBA,
Professor of Social Anthropology, University Of Cambridge
and
Mr Alain Pottage
Lecturer in Property Law, London School of Economics
at the British Academy on 8 May 2003
Intellectual property debates have ceased to be the domain of lawyers, and in the academy at least give rise to many pressing questions. Yet if, as it is claimed, the concept of intellectual property is in crisis, what does that do to universities' and academics' newly asserted rights in the matter? Can one even talk of ownership of knowledge? A social anthropologist stands for a lay interest in the fate of authorship, to be answered by a lawyer whose radical critique goes beyond the mere apprehension of crisis.
Tea will be served at 4.45pm and the meeting will start at 5.15pm
until 7.45pm, followed by a buffet supper. You are welcome to attend
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meet the speakers and continue discussion with other members of
the company in an informal setting. (Supper, including wine, costs
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