Google Book Search Workshop Registration

["Steven Petersen" <SPetersen@umuc.edu>]

Colleagues, Registration for this upcoming workshop ends on 
January 25.

Google Book Search in Depth.
Dates: February 1-12, 2010 (Register by January 25).

Instructor: Peter Jaszi, J.D., Faculty Director of the 
Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and Professor 
of Law at the Washington College of Law at American University.

Prof. Jaszi's workshop will consider the various elements of and 
objections to the Google Book Search settlement -- with emphasis 
on how they affect libraries -- including the controversy it 
provoked, the proposals to settle that controversy, and the 
objections those proposals have evoked. Moreover, the workshop 
will analyze the extent that culturally valuable mass 
digitization projects may be justified under the fair use 
doctrine.

Guest chatters include:

-Brandon Badger, M.A., Product Manager, Google Inc.
-Jonathan Band, J.D., PLLC.
-Pamela Samuelson, J.D., Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology,
and Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley Law School.
-Jeffrey Cunard, J.D., Managing Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.

Detailed Description & Course Objectives: 
http://tinyurl.com/yzjo56h.

SIGN UP TODAY: http://tinyurl.com/nuw58g [Secured Server].

Upcoming Workshop:

Fred von Lohmann, J.D., Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic 
Frontier Foundation, is the instructor of the next workshop 
titled P2P File-sharing on Campus: Legal Controversies and 
Emerging Solutions which runs from March 1-12. This workshop will 
bring you up-to-date on the legal issues surrounding peer-to-peer 
(P2P) file-sharing, emerging solutions (such as the music 
industry's Choruss licensing offers), and the Higher Education 
Opportunity Act (HEOA). Learn more at http://tinyurl.com/yzkbtoj.

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which will be offered March 29 - May 21, 2010.  Participants in 
the certificate program also take one elective workshop. 
Register for certification today and receive either upcoming 
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Steve Petersen
Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
Adelphi, MD  20783
spetersen@umuc.edu