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Contested Commons/Trespassing Publics:
A Conference on Inequalities, Conflicts and Intellectual Property,
6- 8 January 2005, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India.

The past few years have seen conflicts over the regulation of information;
knowledge and cultural materials increase in intensity and scope covering
new geographical spaces, particularly China, India, South Africa and
Brazil. A range of new problems, including the expansion of intellectual
property protection to almost all spheres of our social life, has
intensified the nature of the conflict. It is important to recognize that
the nature of the conflict gets configured differently as we move from the
United States and Europe to social landscapes marked by sharp inequalities
in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

In the light of these transformations, we would like to revisit earlier
discussions on creativity, innovation, authorship, and the making of
property. Is it possible to draw comparative registers between earlier
histories of violence and dispossession that accompanied the making of
property, and the current turbulence around intellectual property on world
scale? We would also like to build a dialogue between different moments in
media history: print, film, music and the new media, so as to prise open
questions around culture, circulation and property.

Speakers include John Frow, Peter Jaszi, Moinak Biswas, Peter Linebaugh,
Doron Ben-Atar, Siva Vaidyanathan, Jane Anderson, Jane Gaines, Sibaji
Bandopadhya, Rosemary Coombe,  Nitin Govil, Cori Hayden, Sharon Daniel,
Daya Shanker, Sophea Lerner, Swapan Chakravorty, Brian Larkin,
N.Gopakumar, Laikwan Pang, Hou Hanru,  and many others.

Registration is now open for the Conference. To register yourself, email
us your name, professional affiliation and your complete postal address to
<registration at sarai.net>, with the subject line "registration".









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