Coming up soon in the City near you:

Wikis Take Manhattan is a scavenger hunt and free content photography
contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles
covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five
boroughs of New York City. The event is based on last year’s Wikipedia
Takes Manhattan, and has evolved to include StreetsWiki this year as
well.
The hunt will take place Saturday, September 27th from 1:00pm to
6:30pm, followed by prizes and celebration.  You can start from the
Columbia sundial–see site for details:

http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/wikis_take_manhattan/project-home

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Creative Commons Salon
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 7-10p

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/NYC_Salon

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These events shamelessly stolen from the SFLC’s James Vasile at
hackervisions.org — a blog worth subscribing to if you’re interested
in this sort of thing.

The Museum canceled their August event, but the old information was posted anyway. The event has been rescheduled for September 26th. In the meantime, we’ll be having a Rock Band event on September 5th as part of the Blawk Party.

The correct information has been posted on our calendar available at http://columbialawtech.org/slst/calendar/ (or just by clicking the calendar link up above)

1L? Interested in science, technology, or intellectual property? Feeling a little lost in the sea of journals, class selection, and the upcoming EIP/job hunt?

2L/3L? Want to share some information, chat, and have a drink on someone else’s tab?

The Society for Law, Science, and Technology (SLST) will be hosting an info session/happy hour this coming Monday, April 14th, 5-7p, at Radio Perfecto. Drinks and snacks are on us, and 2Ls and 3Ls from relevant journals and classes will be available to chat about:

• journals: Sci. & Tech. Law Review, Law and Arts, and others
• classes: IP, telecoms, e-commerce, etc.
• faculty: should you RA? for whom?
• EIP: hard and soft IP, New York, the Bay Area, etc.
• SLST next year: available leadership positions and ideas for events you would like to see

See you there!

This event is sponsored in part by the Student Senate with funds from the Student Activity Fee.

Still reading?  Want more?  Be sure to check out the Infolaw calendar for NYU-hosted events on Tuesday and Wednesday.

On Wednesday, with the Business School’s Technology Business Group:
IP & VC : Identifying Issues for the Nascent Innovator
April 2, 2008 @ 6:00 P.M., reception to follow, in Warren (WJWH) 310

Three panelists - a lawyer, a client, and a venture capitalist- will join us to discuss IP in early phase startups and online services.

On Tuesday (4/1) at 6:30, in conjunction with NYU’s ILI student group, we’ll be hosting the InfoLaw Reading Group, discussing government transparency. Light food will be served with drinks/socializing afterwards. Join our email list for notification of the location.

The VC panel is sponsored in part by Fish and Richardson, and both events are sponsored in part by Student Senate with funds from the Student Activities Fee.

The Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts will be hosting a number of lunches this spring for those interested in intellectual property.

The first event will be a discussion of “User-Generated Content Principles, Filtering & Fair Use.” Speakers will include Jeffrey Cunard, Debevoise & Plimpton and John Palfrey, Harvard Law School. The event will be on January 22, 12:10-1:00pm in JG 101.

The second event will be a discussion of “The Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), Site-Specific Art and other Recent Controversies.” Speakers will include Richard Altman, Esq. and Scott Lewis, Anderson & Kreiger. The event will be on Tuesday, January 29, 12:10-1:00pm in JG 101.

Are there any events, speakers, or topics you’d like SLST to put on, invite, or address this semester? E-mail the e-board any time, but especially before our budget request is due at the end of the first week of classes.

Intellectual Property Practitioners Panel

November 13th, 6:30–8:30 p.m., JG 105

Attorneys from Sonnenschein, Kenyon & Kenyon, Covington & Burling, and Dewey & LeBoeuf are coming to talk about their intellectual property practice. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to listen and ask questions. The panel ends at 7:30 and is followed by a reception, which will include refreshments, beer, wine, and hors d’oeuvres.

Intellectual Property Faculty Panel

November 15th, 12pm–1pm JG 104

Come hear Columbia Intellectual Property professors introduce themselves and speak about their class offerings for next semester and beyond, and find the perfect class for you. Professors Wu, Clarida, Hemphill, Edgar, and Ginsburg will be presenting.1Ls, 2Ls, 3Ls, and LLMs are all welcome—even if (as a 1L) you’ve already selected your classes for next semester, this will still let you meet the professors and get a peek at what is coming in your 2L and 3L years. Food will be offered.

Other events in the pipeline:

• Careers in Law Panel: meet IP lawyers from across Manhattan and New York discussing their work and how to follow in their footsteps.
• Patent Reform Panel: top patent lawyers discuss the current proposed patent reforms and the impact of recent Supreme Court rulings on those reforms.

Dates and details coming soon!