Georgetown Symposium

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Mark Muehlhaeusler, via the LibLicense list.  --Peter Suber.]

Dear all,

The Scholarly Communications group at Georgetown University
Library is pleased to announce its fall symposium, which may be
of interest to some on the list. The event is free, and open to
the public.

To assist us in space planning, could you RSVP William Olsen
(wc...@georgetown.edu).

With best regards,

Mark Muehlhaeusler
Director of Copyright and Rights Management,
Georgetown University Library

-- Announcement --

Scholarly Communications Symposium
Friday November 4, 2011, 10AM-Noon
Murray Room
Lauinger Library, Georgetown University

*What Hath Google Wrought? *

*The Escalating Legal Conflicts Over Old Books (?)*

Long a neglected area of the information economy, access to old
books is all about power and money these days, it seems. Google
is famously enmeshed in its own legal case, and now HathiTrust
wishes to make available those scanned books that are
out-of-print and whose copyright owners have not been found..
However, earlier this month came the announcement that the
Authors' Guild, along with several other organizations, had filed
suit against HathiTrust, accusing the latter of "engaging in one
of the largest copyright infringements in history."

The Scholarly Communications Symposium at Georgetown University
Library has invited leading scholars of intellectual property and
scholarly communications to speak on - and for - some of the
legal and intellectual positions taken on this latest turn in the
controversies over mass digitization projects. The invited
speakers are:

*Allan Adler* is Vice President for Legal and Governmental
Affairs in the Washington, D.C. office of the Association of
American Publishers (AAP), the national trade organization which
represents U.S. book and journal publishing industries. From 1989
until joining AAP in 1996, Mr. Adler practiced law as a member of
Cohn and Marks, the Washington, D.C. communications law firm. His
practice focused primarily on government relations in areas of
federal law, regulation and policy concerning information,
telecommunications & technology. Mr. Adler's practice included
work on federal legislation and rulemaking affecting cable &
broadcast television, telemarketing, electronic publishing,
copyright, postsecondary education and career training programs,
and First Amendment interests of the news media.

Mr. Adler holds a B.A. in History from the State University of
New York at Binghamton (1974) and a Juris Doctor from the
National Law Center of The George Washington University in
Washington, D.C. (1978).**

*Jonathan Band* is Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law
School, and maintains his own law firm, Jonathan Band PLLC. Not
only has he written extensively on intellectual property and the
Internet, but he also contributed to shaping current legislation
by legislative advocacy, i.e., lobbying. His published titles
include /Interfaces on Trial/ and /Interfaces on Trial 2.0/.

Mr. Band received a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in
1982 from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in
1985. From 1985 to 2005, Mr. Band worked at the Washington, D.C.,
office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, including thirteen years as a
partner. Mr. Band established his own law firm in May, 2005.

*Corynne McSherry* is Intellectual Property Director at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation. She specializes in intellectual
property and free speech litigation, with representative cases
including Chamber of Commerce v. Servin, et al (trademark
parody), Lenz v. Universal (copyright misuse), MoveOn.org et al.
v. Viacom (copyright misuse), and In re Sony BMG CD Technologies
Litigation (aka the "rootkit" case), as well as numerous amicus
briefs on trademark, copyright and patent issues.

Ms McSherry holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and a Ph.D. in
Communication from U.C. San Diego. Prior to joining EFF, Ms.
McSherry was a litigator at Bingham McCutchen, LLP. She is the
author of /Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of
Intellectual Property/ (Harvard University Press, 2001).

*Kevin Smith* is Scholarly Communications Officer at Duke
University. He is a prolific writer on copyright and intellectual
property issues, and maintains a widely-read, highly-regarded
blog, scholarlycommunications@duke. Smith holds a Masters of
Library Science from Kent State University and has worked as an
academic librarian in both liberal arts colleges and specialized
libraries.

Mr Smith's strong interest in copyright law began in library
school, and he received a law degree from Capital University in
2005. Before moving to Duke in 2006, he served as the Director of
the Pilgrim Library at Defiance College in Ohio, where he also
taught Constitutional Law. He is admitted to the bar in Ohio and
North Carolina.

Our moderator will be *Joan Cheverie*. Joan serves as a Policy
Specialist for the EDUCAUSE Washington Office, dealing with
critical IT policy issues arising both in Washington, D.C., and
on campuses. Prior to that Cheverie was a longtime department
head at Georgetown University Library in Government Documents and
then Digital Services, most recently as Head of Copyright and
Rights Management from 2008 to 2011. Cheverie holds a BA from
Mount Holyoke College, an MA, Communication and Technology;
information policy from Georgetown University, an MS, Library and
Information Science from The Catholic University of America, and
a Certificate, Copyright Management and Leadership from
University of Maryland University College.

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