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2006, Jack Balkin

This is the author's inaugural speech at the first Access to Knowledge Conference at Yale in 2006. The author puts forth three propositions regarding the Access to Knowledge movement. First that 'Access to Knowledge is a demand of Justice' arising out of diverse social movements. Secondly, that 'Access to Knowledge is both an issue of economic development and an issue of individual participation and human liberty' and thirdly that 'Access to Knowledge is about Intellectual Property, but about far more than that.' The author has developed some of these arguments in a talk delivered at the Access to Knowledge 2 conference at Yale in 2007.

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