NFAIS Forum oN Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment: An Update

When:
Friday, May 4, 2007
 

Location:
PALINET Headquarters
3000 Market Street - Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2801
 

  Final Agenda

 

8:30am - 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
 

9:00am - 9:05am: Welcome

Bonnie Lawlor, NFAIS Executive Director
 

9:05am - 9:45am: Use of Content in the Digital Environment: Current Issues
 

Frederic Haber, Vice President and General Counsel, Copyright Clearance Center [ Slides ]

This session will provide an overview of the dynamics surrounding the appropriate use of content in the digital environment. Issues such as the effectiveness of copyright, licensing and technology as protection mechanisms for intellectual property; the use of digital rights management systems as a control methodology; the current public perception of copyright and how that perception is shaping practice; the stakeholders in the copyright debate; and the impact of open access on compensation to creators and owners of intellectual property.

9:45am - 10:30am: Intellectual Property Legislation: Current Status

Dan Duncan, Director, Government Affairs, The McGraw-Hill Companies [ Slides ]

This session will highlight the status of current and emerging intellectual property legislation that is being debated by Congress. Among others, topics will include the Digital Media Consumer Rights Act (Boucher bill), Orphan Works legislation (HR 5439), Open Access to Research (S. 2695), and the status of exemptions from the prohibition on the circumvention of technological protections to copyrighted works.

10:30am - 10:45am: Break and Networking Opportunity

10:45am - 11:45am: Point/Counterpoint -- Online Indexing as Fair Use? The Google Book Search Project

Elena M. Paul, Esq., Executive Director,
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

This session will provide a lively give and take discussion of the Google Book Search project and the intellectual property issues that it has raised. It will cover the arguments for copyright infringement, the arguments for fair use, the most relevant case law that has already been decided, and the possible outcomes of the lawsuit.

11:45am - 1:00pm: Lunch and Networking Opportunity (lunch will be provided)

1:00pm - 1:30pm: Government Information: Discovery and Re-use

Chris Cole, Associate Director for Technical Services, National Agricultural Library [ Slides ]

Now that a copyright notice is no longer required for copyright protection, it is not immediately evident when a government can be distributed freely. CENDI, a cooperative of the major U.S. government scientific and technical information centers, recently held a workshop to discuss how to resolve this problem through the development of a symbol, tags and metadata that would identify government works in the public domain. This session will provide insights on the issues surrounding the discovery, use and re-use of government information.

1:30pm - 2:00pm: Copyright Exemptions for the Library Community: Section 108 Study Group

James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University [ Slides ]

This session will provide an update on the progress made to date by theSection 108 Study Group established by the Library of Congress to balance the rights of copyright owners with the needs of libraries and archives in the digital environment.

2:00pm - 3:00pm: Use and Re-use of Content: Interactive Copyright Q&A

Frederic Haber, Vice President and General Counsel, Copyright Clearance Center

This interactive session will answer the most frequently asked questions regarding the creation of abstracts as well as the use and re-use of abstracts, web content, and other print and digital materials.

3:00pm - 3:15pm: Final wrap up and Adjournment
 

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