The Center for American Progress and the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning will hold an event on February 7, at 10AM, to explore how Open Source Education Resources and how they can impact college affordability and access. Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter will give a keynote address, and PIJIP Prof. Michael Carroll will participate in a panel at the event.

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"There is little coherence in the measurement and assessment of sustainability attributes, resulting in competing, inconsistent and often imprecise eco-labels, standards and certifications. This discord has led to confusion among consumers and commercial purchasers alike, as well as inconsistent sustainability criteria in building certification programmes."

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Michael Carroll was recently quoted in a Huffington Post Article entitled "iBooks Author Requires Selling Original Bookstore, Says Apple's Controvertial Contract."

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. The Code was developed in partnership with the Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law at American University. Winston Tabb, Johns Hopkins University Dean of University Libraries and Museums and President of ARL, said, “This document is a testament to the collective wisdom of academic and research librarians, who have asserted careful and considered approaches to some very difficult situations that we all face every day.”

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Professor Jonas Anderson wrote a guest blog post for Patently-O.com, summarizing the oral argument in Mayo v. Prometheus at the Supreme Court.

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Professor Jonas Anderson's article Secret Inventions was selected as one of the best law review articles addressing intellectual property from 2011. The article will be republished in The Intellectual Property Law Review (West).

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The Supreme Court handed down its decision in Golan v. Holder yesterday. The case could have been the antidote to its 2003 decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft. It could have vindicated the defenders of the public domain. It could have breathed life into the Copyright Clause in the Constitution. But it didn’t. Instead it hewed so closely to the Eldred decision that it will take wily law professors countless hours of postmortem to remind themselves of why they had any optimism in the first place.

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Come learn about opportunities to get involved with intellectual property law at WCL, including: Spring Events, Curriculum planning for 2L year and beyond, IP Clinic, Volunteer Opportunities and Dean’s Fellowships, IP Brief, IP Law Society, Communications and Media Law Society, Sports and Entertainment Law Society, International Trade and Investment Law Society.

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The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property is hiring Deans Fellows d to assist with editing, cite-checking and formatting papers we are receiving for a series of working papers on international IP. We are also seeking a communications fellow to assist with maintaining the WordPress sites associated with our grant funded work. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to pijip@wcl.american.edu no later than January 13, 2012.

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Michael Carroll will appear on the Diane Rehm show today, January 5, at 11:00, as part of a panel discussing Copyright Reform in the Digital Age. The panel will focus on ways to protect information without discouraging creativity, as more information, including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, is produced and shared online.

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