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Event | Cultural Programs – Access Restricted
Access Restricted: “Intellectual Property in the Age of Digital Reproduction”
- Location
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Conference Room, 1 Liberty Plaza
- Dates & Times
- Wednesday, April 14, 2010 6:30PM–8:30PM
A panel featuring Sonia Katyal, Alfred Steiner, Andrew Ross, and Virginia Rutledge, moderated by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento.
A lively roundtable debate between practicing lawyers, legal theorists, and a sociologist on who owns what and what is really at stake when creative production is regulated through the structures of property rights. Overlooking Ground Zero and featuring extensive views of New York Harbor, this conference room not only affords visitors the chance to literally have a “seat at the table” but also features breathtaking vistas.
Reservations will be available on April 6 at 12PM.
About Access Restricted: Law & Representation
Even though Manhattan possesses one of the richest legal infrastructures in the country, the general public hardly ever interacts with these buildings and their use except for a few, very specified situations. In order to showcase this legal fabric, Access Restricted: Law & Representation hosts a series of talks by practicing lawyers, and scholars in the palaces and parlors where law is practiced or discussed.
Serving more as a constellation than a knot, the uniting rubric of the series teases the many meanings of the word “representation” by exploring current issues in law, while also investigating the law in art, architecture, and the media. Holistically, this multifaceted approach aims to foster its own “image” of the legal system and its concerns today.
Access Restricted is a free nomadic lecture series that opens rarely visited and often prohibited spaces in Manhattan to the general public. Once inside these unique interiors, the audience is treated to a site-specific lecture and discussion addressing a range of topics revolving around issues of architectural history and preservation, social justice, and urban development. The aim of the series is to foster new perspectives by encouraging the public to explore locales and situations through the various lenses of architecture and planning, art, history, sociology, political science, and law.
