ALA Program: Fair Use - A Value in the Digital Age?

[Ann Okerson <aokerson@pantheon.yale.edu>]

Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 12:54:14 -0400
From: Rick Uttich <rmucc@cunyvm.cuny.edu>



                      ALA Annual Conference
                          Program Event


                              ACRL
                       Copyright Committee

                            presents

             Fair Use - A Value in the Digital Age?

                            Saturday
                          June 27, 1998
                         2:00 - 4:00 PM
                Grand Hyatt - Constitution Room

     The exclusive right to intellectual property enjoyed by
     copyright holders is limited by the United States
     Constitution. Fair Use provisions in the copyright law of
     the United States guarantee to libraries and educational
     institutions the right to make accessible for use
     material otherwise restricted by copyright.  The
     emergence of the digital environment for publishing and
     communicating has brought with it a renewed effort by
     copyright holders to eliminate Fair Use protections
     enjoyed by libraries and educational institutions.

     A prominent panel of experts will review the doctrine of
     Fair Use. The latest developments in legislative activities
     and their implications for access to information will be addressed.
     The impact of advances in technology on copyright protections and
     fair use will be considered.  And practical issues relating to
     the value and relevance of Fair Use in consortial relationships
     will be examined.




                        PROGRAM SPEAKERS

     Arlene Bielefield
     Author: Technology and Copyright Law
     Assistant Professor
     Dept. of Library Science
     Southern Connecticut State Univ.

     Rick Weingarten
     Senior Policy Advisor
     ALA Washington Office

     Tom Sanville
     Executive Director
     OhioLINK

                        PROGRAM MODERATOR
     Sarah Cox
     Foreign, International and Comparative Law Librarian
     School of Law
     University of Connecticut

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