I was going to post information about my presentation at WIPIP, but Rebecca Tushnet’s liveblogging summary has beat me to it. So read her summary, and thanks to her and others for their useful comments.
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Brian Rowe of the Freedom for IP blog also comments on my presentation on his blog.