The James E. Rogers College of Law invites you to a panel discussion on:
Copyright and the University in the Era of Google Books
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Friday, November 13, 2009 |
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9:00 - 10:30 am |
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The University of Arizona
Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
1030 N. Olive Road
Tucson, Arizona
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The proposed Google Book settlement concerns one of the most complex questions faced by the university community: What is the future of access to books and digital information?
Bypassing the legislative process, the Google Book settlement will, if approved, create a new legal regime for access to books in the digital environment. The settlement implicates critical issues that are central to our work: access to information, freedom of inquiry, author and publisher remuneration, and reader privacy.
This panel discussion will examine how copyright affects the work of the university community in this era of proposed changes that will fundamentally affect the way we access copyright-protected material. The Google Book settlement implicates a range of key legal and policy questions that are critical to the university community and to the processes of copyright lawmaking.
Keynote Speaker:
Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Co-Director of the Tulane Center for Intellectual Property Law and Culture, and Director of the Usable Past Copyright Project.
Panel:
Ellen Bublick, Dan B. Dobbs Professor of Law, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
Shay Cameron, Business Manager, Arizona University Press
Dan Lee, Director of the Office of Copyright Management & Scholarly Communication, University of Arizona
Jamie Ratner, Professor of Law, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
Chair:
Graeme Austin, J. Byron McCormick Professor of Law, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
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Professor Elizabeth Townsend-Gard is Co-Director of the Tulane Center for Intellectual Property Law and Culture and Director of the Usable Past Copyright Project. One of the nation's leading voices on the intersection of copyright law and academia, her recent projects have included podcasting the traditional classroom, Second Life and virtual property, and copyright duration, unpublished works and the public domain.
Dr. Townsend-Gard joined the Tulane Law School faculty in 2007 from the Seattle University School of Law, where she was Visiting Assistant Professor and a Justice Faculty Fellow at Seattle University's Center for the Study of Justice in Society. Previously, she taught Intellectual Property law at the London School of Economics, where she also held a Leverhulme Trust Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, and history at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was awarded a Collegium University Teaching Fellowship. She earned her Ph.D. in European History from UCLA in 1998, and then her J.D and LL.M. in International Trade from the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona.
Professor Townsend-Gard's teaching areas includes Intellectual Property and Property, with wider research interest in interdisciplinary study of culture and the law. Her current writing projects include a co-authored piece with her spouse, Dr. W. Ron Gard, "Marked by Modernism: Reconfiguring the ‘Traditional Contours of Copyright Law’ for the Twenty-First Century” (Paul Saint-Amour, editor, Modernism and Copyright, Oxford University Press, forthcoming); articles entitled "Towards a Constitutionally Defined Public Domain," "The (Im)Possibilities of a Usable Past, or the Making of the Durationator," and "Wresting with the 1909 Copyright Act in Theory and Practice."
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The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
P.O. Box 210176, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0176
Tel: (520) 621-1373 |
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