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members of your staff might be interested in attending. Please feel free to
forward the following information to your staff or listservs as you see fit.
Free Culture & the Digital Library:
A Symposium presented by the MetaScholar Initiative of Emory University
Libraries
http://MetaScholar.org/events/2005/freeculture/
Location:
Gambrell Hall (Emory Law School)
1301 Clifton Road
Atlanta, Georgia
Date:
Friday, October 14, 2005
9:00 A.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Registration (includes lunch and published proceedings):
$115 Early Registration Fee (Before Oct. 1, 2005)
$175 Late Registration Fee (Oct. 1 – 14, 2005)
Free Culture is the label for the grassroots movement that is resisting the ways
that “big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control
creativity” (Lessig, *Free Culture,* 2004).
This symposium seeks to promote a better understanding of the impacts of
restrictions on the dissemination of public cultural information. Featuring
Lawrence Lessig and Siva Vaidhyanathan, as well as leading figures from the
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the arXiv e-Print archive,
Wikipedia, the Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP), the Digital Library
Federation (DLF), and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
(NDLTD), this interdisciplinary symposium will explore the following issues:
* The relationship between digital innovation and legal constraints
* Regulation of public cultural information and artifacts
* Digital library research and systems development
* Freedom of ideas in the Internet age
* Copyright law and intellectual property concerns
Featured Speakers: Lawrence Lessig, Siva Vaidhyanathan
Additional Speakers Include: Edward Fox, Clifford Lynch, Mary Rasenburger
Paper Presentations by: Joseph Corneli, Bradley Daigle, Debora Halbert, Marjorie
Heins, Barrie Howard, James A. Jacobs, Aaron Krowne, William Maher, Daniel
Mayer, Meghan Miller Brawley, Robert Milson, Karrie Peterson, Raymond Puzio,
Denise Troll Covey, Simeon Warner
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Biographical Information:
Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for
Internet and Society, Lessig is the author of *The Future of Ideas* and *Code
and Other Laws of Cyberspace.* Professor Lessig also chairs the Creative
Commons project, and is a boardmember of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and
of the Center for the Public Domain.
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Professor at New York University, Professor Vaidhyanathan is a renowned cultural
historian, media scholar and author of *Copyrights and Copywrongs* and *The
Anarchist in the Library.* Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals
including: *American Scholar,* *The Chronicle of Higher Education,* *The New
York Times Magazine* and *The Nation.*
Edward Fox
Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, Fox directs the Internet
Technology Innovation Center at Virginia Tech, Digital Library Research
Laboratory, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and
Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library
(CITIDEL). He has been (co)PI on over 80 research and development projects.
Clifford Lynch
Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997, Lynch
also currently serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory
Board of the Library of Congress. He now serves on the National Research
Council’s Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records
Administration.
Mary Rasenberger
Policy Advisor for Special Programs in the Office of Policy and International
Affairs of the U.S. Copyright Office and the Office of Strategic Initiatives,
Rasenberger currently oversees the partnership agreements for the National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).
Joseph Corneli
Paper: “A Scholia-Based Document Model for Commons-Based Peer Production”
Corneli is a former mathematics graduate student who is now a freelance
researcher working at the intersection of math, computers, and society. He is
involved in a number of projects including the Hyperreal Dictionary of
Mathematics and PlanetMath.
Bradley Daigle
Paper: “How Do We Sustain Digital Scholarship?”
Daigle is the Associate Director of the University of Virginia Library,
overseeing a unit that digitizes the library’s special collections and rare
materials. Daigle also leads a statewide team of Special Collections staff to
establish statewide standards and best practices for creating digital objects
from special collections materials.
Debora Halbert
Paper: “The Librarian Revolutionary: Creating Cultural Exchange and Preservation
on the Internet”
Author of *Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of
Expanding Property Rights* and *Resisting Intellectual Property,* Halbert has
also written numerous articles on copyright issues.
Marjorie Heins
Paper: “Will Fair Use Survive the Digital Age?”
Founder of the Free Expression Policy Project, Heins is a fellow in the Brennan
Center for Justice Democracy Program. Heins is the author of *Not in Front of
the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth* and *The
Progress of Science and Useful Arts: Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual
Freedom.*
Barrie Howard
Paper: “Greasing the Wheels of Regulation”
Howard is the program associate of the Digital Library Federation. He is the
project manager for the DLF Distributed Library: OAI for Digital Library
Aggregation, an IMLS 2004 National Leadership Grant project.
Aaron Krowne
Paper: “How Free Culture Will Save Digital Libraries”
Aaron Krowne is Head of Digital Library Research at Emory University. He is
also the founder of PlanetMath and was formerly a student at Virginia Tech's
Digital Library Research Lab.
William Maher
Paper: “Heritage and Culture Under Lock, but No Key: The Problem of Unpublished
Orphan Works”
Maher is the University Archivist and Professor of Library Administration
(1995-) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Daniel Mayer
Paper: “Trusting the User: Wikipedia As an Example”
Mayer is Chief Financial Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation and a long-time and
very active Wikipedia user.
Meghan Miller Brawley
Paper: “Catalysts for Change: Librarians and Open Access”
Miller Brawley is currently at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in the
School of Information Sciences and is affiliated with the Vanderbilt University
Special Collections and University Archives.
Robert Milson
Paper: “Adapting CBPP Platforms for Instructional Delivery”
Robert Milson is a member of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at
Dalhousie in 1999. His research interests include differential geometry and
mathematical physics.
Karrie Peterson and James A. Jacobs
Paper: “Government Information in the Digital Era: Free Culture or Controlled
Substance?”
Peterson is Head of Government Information Services at North Carolina State
University Libraries, a unit that encompasses government information, data
services and GIS, patents and trademarks, and maps. Jacobs is Data Services
Librarian at the University of California San Diego where, since 1985, he has
provided online access to social science data.
Raymond Puzio
Paper: “Free Math and Potential Bottlenecks”
Puzio is an adjunct member of the Department of Physics at the University of
Memphis and a regular contributor to PlanetMath.
Denise Troll Covey
Paper: “Rights, Registries, and Remedies: An Analysis of Responses to the
Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry Regarding Orphan Works”
Principal Librarian for Special Projects at Carnegie Mellon University
Libraries, Troll Covey is responsible for conducting research to inform library
administration and strategic planning.
Simeon Warner
Paper: “The arXiv: 14 Years of Open Access Scientific Communication”
A noted expert on the OAI (Open Archives Initiative) Protocol, Warner helped
establish the arXiv e-Print archive. Warner currently works in the Computer and
Information Science Program at Cornell University.
For more information on the symposium and to register, please visit:
http://MetaScholar.org/events/2005/freeculture/
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