Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium
MetaScholar Initiative of Emory University Libraries
Friday, October 14, 2005
9:00am-5:00pm
Gambrell Hall-1301 Clifton Road-Atlanta, Georgia
Free Culture is the label for the grassroots movement that resists the ways that
“big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control
creativity.” (Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture)
The Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium seeks to promote a better
understanding of the impacts of recent changes in legal regulation on the
dissemination of public cultural information. Comprised of leading figures in
the fields of digital library research, library scie3nce, social science, law,
computer science, cultural studies, and public policy, this interdisciplinary
symposium will explore:
-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.
Keynote: Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center
for Internet and Society. He is the author of The Future of Ideas and Other
Laws of Cyberspace and Code. Professor Lessig also chairs the Creative Commons
project, and is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and of the
Center for the Public Domain.
Featured Speaker: Siva Vaidhyanathan
Cultural historian, media scholar, and author of Copyrights and Copywrongs
and The Anarchist in the Library. Professor Vaidhyanathan of New York
University has written for many periodicals including: American Scholar, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine and The Nation.
Additional Speakers Include:
Clifford Lynch
Mary Rasengerger
Ed Fox
Simeon Warner
Many more
$115 Early Registration Fee (before Oct. 1, 2005)
$175 Late Registration Fee (Oct. 1-14, 2005)
For more information, registration, and accommodations, please visit:
http://MetaScholar.org
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