In re Books: A Conference on Law and the Future of Books
October 26-27, 2012
New York Law School
http://www.nyls.edu/inrebooks
The book is up for grabs. Digital distribution is upending the publishing industry, changing how writers and readers find each other, and challenging long-settled notions of what a "book" is.
The social and technological upheaval is matched only by the legal one. Who owns electronic rights? Is indexing infringement? What does first sale mean online and globally? Will ubiquitous scanners mean ubiquitous piracy? Who owns bibliographic metadata? Will no one think of the orphans? Agency or wholesale? What does reader privacy mean when books have brains? The answers we give to these questions will define the future of books.
This one-and-a-half-day conference will bring together leading thinkers about law and the printed word. Speakers from academia, publishing, libraries, and the practicing bar will detail the sea change sweeping over publishing and debate how law should adapt.
Confirmed speakers include:
· Eric Hellman, Unglue.it
· Roy Kaufman, Copyright Clearance Center
· Jonathan Band, Policy Bandwidth
· Caleb Crain, Author
· Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa
· James Gleick, Author
· Daniel Goldstein, Brown Goldstein Levy
· Ariel Katz, University of Toronto
· Jessica Litman, University of Michigan
· Lateef Mtima, Howard University
· Valerie Small Navarro, ACLU of California
· Aaron Perzanowski, Wayne State University
· Matthew Sag, Loyola University Chicago
· Christopher Sagers, Cleveland State University
· Pamela Samuelson, University of California at Berkeley
· Jule Sigall, Microsoft
· John Thompson, University of Cambridge
· Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Tulane University
· Doron Weber, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
· Jessamyn West, Librarian.net
· Eric Zohn, William Morris Endeavor
Full schedule, registration form and other conference information is available at the conference website: http://www.nyls.edu/inrebooks
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In re Books is brought to you by the producers of D is for Digitize: the Public Index and the Institute for Law and Information Policy at New York Law School.