Lecture Series: Sharing and Protecting Your Creative Work

Silicon Valley-based Cogswell College (http://www.cogswell.edu/) is pleased to announce its Spring 2012 Lecture Series, together with the Spring 2012 Special Topics course, “Intellectual Property and the Digital Arts.”  Cogswell College is one of the world’s leading regionally-accredited institutions offering a unique curriculum that fuses digital arts, engineering and entrepreneurship.

Guest speakers will include lawyers, entrepreneurs and deep thinkers on topics related to sharing and protecting your creative work.  The lectures are Wednesday evenings, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. in the Dragon's Den on the Cogswell campus. 

The lectures are part of Cogswell's newly-created class, "Intellectual Property and the Digital Arts," presented by the Entrepreneurship Program. 

Lectures are free and open to the public.

-Lecture Schedule and Roster-

March 21:      US Constitutional Law, the Court System and Your Work

                          With Michael Hindus from Pillsbury Law

March 28:      How to Protect Your Creative Work

                          With Paul Hickman from the TIPS Group

April 4:        Software Patents and Infringement Detection

                          With Bob Zeidman from Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering Corporation   

April 11:      Copyright Law and Fair Use

  With Daniel Nazer from the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School

April 18:       Creative Commons Licenses

                          With Jessica Coates from Creative Commons

April 25:       Legal Resources for Entrepreneurs

                          With an Amazing Panel of Entrepreneurs