February 12

"The Author as Vegetable: Images of Nature in the Discourse of the Commons"
Mario Biagioli
Harvard University

February 26

"Fashion, Comedy, Cuisine, and Other Stories of Innovation Without Intellectual Property"
Christopher Sprigman
University of Virginia School of Law

March 5

"Broken Records and the Cultural Commons: Music and the Ethics of Artistic Appropriation"
Rosemary Coombe
York University

March 12

“'It's Good to Primitive': Europe, Africa, and the Fetish of Authenticity"
Joseph Slaughter
Columbia University

March 26

"Analog Copyright: Interpretation, Fair Use, and the Aesthetics of Access"
Lucas Hilderbrand
University of California, Irvine

April 2

"Your Right to What's Mine: On Personal Intellectual Property"
Paul Saint-Amour
University of Pennsylvania

April 9

"Branding the Mahatma"
William Mazzarella
University of Chicago

April 16

"On the Edges of Autobiography and Revelation"
Sarah Jacoby
Society of Fellows

April 23

"Piracy: Early Modern Rhetorics and Realities"
Martha Woodmansee
Case Western Reserve University