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Andrew Rens, Duke Law School 
Tuesday 22 September 2015, 14:00-15:00
A legal perspective on open data: balancing risks and opportunities in open projects
- đ¤ Speaker: Andrew Rens, Duke Law School đ Website
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 22 September 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
- đ Venue: Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site
Abstract
Andrew Rens is a scholar of the complex interactions of law, knowledge, and innovation. During this talk he will discuss legal aspects of open data sharing and participate in a Q&A on balancing risks and opportunities in open source projects.
Rens is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School. where he teaches in Access to Medicines: Intellectual Property and Global Public Health, is a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and is writing a dissertation on the use of open licences in education as an SJD candidate. He was founding Legal Lead of Creative Commons South Africa and co-founder and former director of two nonprofit organizations: The African Commons Project, and Freedom to Innovate South Africa.
Series This talk is part of the Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre series.
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