"Preface" [2009] ELECD 508; in Brauneis, F. Robert (ed), "Intellectual Property Protection of Fact-based Works" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009)

Book Title: Intellectual Property Protection of Fact-based Works

Editor(s): Brauneis, F. Robert

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848441835

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Preface
The chapters in this book are based on papers presented at a symposium enti-
tled `Feist, Facts, and Functions: IP Protection for Works Beyond
Entertainment', which was held in Washington, DC on 28 September 2007.
The symposium was co-sponsored by The George Washington University Law
School and the Software and Information Industry Association. For their
support of the project, I would like to thank Frederick M. Lawrence, the Dean
of the Law School; Michael Ryan, Director of the Law School's Creative and
Innovative Economy Center; Ken Wasch, President of the Software and
Information Industry Association; and Keith Kupferschmid, Senior Vice
President of the Association. For their aid in organizing and staffing the event,
I would like to thank Sarah Huisentruit Orye, Shauna Eisenberg, and Thomas
Lee of the Creative and Innovative Economy Center. For his superlative assis-
tance in compiling the indices, I would like to thank David Yung Ho Kim,
whose work was generously supported by the Cardozo Law School during my
visit there in the Spring of 2009; for his timely support in finalizing the
indices, I would like to thank Thomas Mittenzwei. Finally, and most impor-
tantly, I would like to thank the participants in the Symposium for their presen-
tations and for their subsequent contributions to this volume, from which I
have learned a great deal.

Robert F. Brauneis
The George Washington University Law School
December 2008




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