Ottawa!

I’ll be in Ottawa on Thursday to talk about military diffusion and intellectual property:

What do intellectual property law, industrial espionage, and cyber-warfare have to do with one another?

Industrial espionage is, by definition, a violation of most existing schemes of intellectual property law. In the 19^th and 20^th centuries, governments actively practiced industrial espionage, dispatching agents to foreign countries in order to steal secrets and bring them back to domestic producers. Despite the potential for glamour and drama, the fruits of industrial espionage, especially in the defense sector, are generally thought to have been limited.

Here’s the info on the talk, which I’m sure will be of great interest to the Ottawa’s vast community of LGM readers!