Fashion Copyright Bill Analysis by WM Partner Published in National Law Journal

Olivera Medenica recently had an article on the impact of a pending Copyright bill on the commercial fashion world published in the National Law Journal. It is an excellent primer on the interplay (or lack thereof) of copyright and fashion in the United States.

W&M Partners to Give Lecture at Harvard for Wikimania 2006

W&M partners Olivera Medenica and Kaiser Wahab will lecture at Harvard Law School (home of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society), as featured guests at the 2006 Wikimedia Conference (“Wikimania 06” August 4th-6th). Wikimania 06 is the second international conference organized by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is the main forum for new media professionals and academics focused on the issues and challenges confronting wiki and open source technologies. In addition, W&M's partners will present a research paper for Wikimania.

Last year's speakers included Jimmy Wales (founder and chair of the Wikimedia Foundation), Ross Mayfield (founder and CEO of Socialtext Incorporated), Ward Cunningham (programmer and inventor of the first wiki), Richard Stallman (founder of the free software movement, the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation). Sponsors of the event included Answers.com, SocialText, Sun Microsystems, DocCheck and Logos Group. This year Yochai Benkler (expert in communications law, Professor of Law at Yale University) and Lawrence Lessig (chairman, Creative Commons) shall also speak.

Wikis and open source technologies are changing society and discourse at an astonishing rate and W&M is proud to participate in the ongoing process and dialogue.