U.C. Berkeley Professor of Law and former President of Creative Commons Molly Van Houweling talks about copyright law, which she says "[h]istorically...has tried to strike a balance between giving innovators a big enough reward to stoke their creativity, while not locking up their innovations so tightly that society can't benefit from them." Creative Commons is a nonprofit group that facilitates sharing of intellectual property.

This event is in celebration of the 4th annual Open Access Week, which promotes Open Access as a new norm in global scholarship and research.

Molly Van Houweling is Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. From 2002-2005, she was on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School. Van Houweling has also served as senior adviser to the president and board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), was a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and clerked for Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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