Interdisciplinary effort produces all star line-up! There are two panels : 1) Trademark Protections in the New gTLDs 2) “Walled Gardens:” Should gTLDs Become Private Platforms? [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/au-icann>Today, *Monday February 25 2019* at *1:30pm ET* (18:30 UTC) the *American University Washington College of Law <https://www.wcl.american.edu/>*, the *American University School of Communications <https://www.american.edu/soc/>*, the *Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property* <https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/>, and the *Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org/>* present a mini-conference - *ICANN and the New Top-Level Domains <https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/events/icann-and-the-new-top-level-domains/>* in Washington DC. Participants will consider the impact of the recent addition of 1200+ new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) on the rights of IP owners, domain name registrants, and the public, and on the architecture of the internet. Speakers include: *Michael Karanicolas*, University of Toronto; *Brian King*, MarkMonitor; *Rebecca Tushne*t, Harvard Law School; *Brian Winterfeldt*, Winterfeldt IP Group; *Mary Wong*, ICANN; *Becky Burr*, ICANN Board & Neustar; *Sarah Deutsch*, ICANN Board; *Kathy Kleiman*, Center for Information Technology, Princeton University; *Jeff Neuman*, Com Laude/Valideus; and *Mitch Stoltz*, EFF. *VIEW ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/1zt-hfwCV0Q <https://youtu.be/1zt-hfwCV0Q>* *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/au-icann <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/au-icann> (AI Captions)* *AGENDA: https://bit.ly/auicann <https://bit.ly/auicann>* *TWITTER: #ICANN + @AUWCL http://bit.ly/2BL7wbR <http://bit.ly/2BL7wbR>* *Permalink*: https://isoc.live/10930/ - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -