Dan Burk
Dan Burk is the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. He is an internationally prominent authority on the law of intellectual property, who specializes in the areas of cyberlaw and biotechnology. He teaches courses in copyright, patent, and electronic commerce, and is the author of numerous papers on the legal and societal impact of new technologies, including articles on scientific misconduct, regulation of biotechnology, and intellectual property implications of global computer networks.
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Burk's recent publications include "Information Ethics and the Law of Data Representations" (forthcoming), "Method and Madness in Copyright Law" (2007), and "Ethical Approaches to Robotic Data Gathering in Academic Research" (with Gove N. Allen & Charles Ess, 2008).