Jim has asked me to let our blog readers know of an upcoming conference. The University of Maryland's Center for Intellectual Property is having its 5th annual Symposium on Intellectual Property June 16-17. The conference boasts some big names, like NBC Universal's Alec French, MoFo's Jonathan Band (who is starting his own practice), PK's Gigi Sohn and more. I'm speaking on a June 16 panel at 1:15 with RIAA's Linda Zirkelbach, Penn State U. professor Matt Jackson and Harvard U. undergrad Matthew Gline. GWU professor Bob Brauneis will moderate. The panel is titled "P2P File Sharing: Pirates or Revolutionaries?"

I don't know if they're still taking reservations to attend in person, but the entire 2-day conference will be webcast. One can sign up here.

Because this is a scholarly conference they're publishing a lot of works, some old and some new. A couple that may be published include this one and this one from the IPcentral site. I also plan to submit a paper; we'll see if I carry through with that threat.