Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy ("BLIP") Clinic's first-ever Legal Hackathon brings a team of advocates, legal minds, technologists, and content creators together for an all-day event to explore how technology can improve the law and society, and, conversely, how law can improve technology. At BLIP, we believe that this is an important discussion in civic engagement and policymaking. We hope that you can attend at least one of many workshops and discussions that will be held over the course of the day.
Panels
- Hacking the Act: Why Do SOPA and PIPA Matter? Speakers: Lon Jacobs (News Corp), Derek Bambauer(BLS Professor), Christopher Libertelli (Netflix), and Amyt Eckstein (Moses & Singer)
- Government 2.0: A Primer on Crowdsourced Policymaking and Fostering Civic Engagement Through Technology. Speakers: Art Chang (Tipping Point), Public Knowledge
Hack the Act
- A week-long competition beginning the day of the Hackathon, interested teams will tackle a discreet issue of IP policy and collaboratively propose a new policy reform through online collaboration tool Docracy.
Workshops
- Docracy is challenging participants to use their service to translate a legalese agreement into plain English using their service. www.docracy.com
- WhyNot is brainstorming how to create a platform that will crowdsource the next Mayor of NYC. whynot.ly
- The Calyx Institute is challenging participants to hack a model privacy policy for Internet service providers. www.calyxinstitute.org/
- Creative Rights for Creative Children (CREATE) is hacking a new IP curriculum for students that properly accounts for creative privileges like fair use.
- And more to come!
Check legalhackathon.blipclinic.org for more information as it develops.
Register at legalhackathon.blipclinic.org/register (RSVP here too, so we know which Goodniks are attending).
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