Georgetown Symposium

[Mark Muehlhaeusler <mpm97@georgetown.edu>]

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 
(wco4@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.

****