[A2k] FW: Symposium - The Google Books Settlement: What Will It Mean for the Long Term?

[Barbara Stratton]

If you are able to be in NYC next Friday 13th March - this Columbia Law Sch=
ool seminar seems to be the place to be at. It costs only $25.00 USD.


Barbara Stratton
Senior Policy Adviser
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 0500 Fax: +44 (0)20 7255 0501
Email: info@cilip.org.uk Web: www.cilip.org.uk

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The Google Books Settlement:=A0 What Will It Mean for the Long Term?
Columbia Law School
March 13, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Google, authors and publishers recently entered into a settlement agreement=
 in The Authors Guild et al. v. Google Inc., a class action lawsuit brought=
 against Google in connection with its use of copyrighted books in its Book=
 Search feature, and in The McGraw-Hill Companies et al. v. Google Inc., a =
separate lawsuit by publishers.=A0 The settlement, if approved by the court=
, will provide new opportunities for authors and publishers to market their=
 works.=A0 It will also enhance the public's ability to search for books an=
d to get partial text displays (and, in the case of many older works, full =
text displays) at home, at school, and in libraries.=A0 At the same time, t=
he settlement may have significant implications for copyright law, competit=
ion, research and scholarship. The settlement embraces copyrighted works in=
 US libraries, regardless of whether the rightholders are US or foreign nat=
ionals, unless the right holders opt out, which they must do by May 5, 2009=
.

In this full-day conference, we will examine the potential long-term implic=
ations of the Google settlement for the parties, for other stakeholders who=
se works are not included in the settlement (e.g., photographers and illust=
rators), and for the public interest.=A0

For registration information, please go to the Kernochan Center website at =
www.kernochancenter.org.

Program

8:30-9:00=A0 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:30=A0 Introduction

9:30-10:00=A0 Speaker:=A0 Legislating Through Settlement (Marybeth Peters, =
U.S. Register of Copyrights)

10:00-10:30 Speaker: Competition Issues=A0 (Professor Randal C. Picker, Pau=
l H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law, University of Chicago L=
aw School)

10:30-11:00=A0 Break

11:00 - 12:45=A0 Panel:=A0 The Future of "Books"=A0 (Moderator:=A0 June M. =
Besek, Executive Director, Kernochan Center, Columbia Law School)

What will the settlement mean for publishers, and for competition in the pu=
blishing industry?

Allan R. Adler, Vice President - Legal and Governmental Affairs, Associatio=
n of American Publishers (AAP)
Niko Pfund, Vice President and Publisher, Trade and Academic Books, Oxford =
University Press, New York
Richard Sarnoff, Co-Chairman, Bertelsmann, Inc. and President, Bertelsmann =
Digital Media Investments
Jule Sigall, Senior Policy Counsel/Copyright and Trademark, Microsoft Corp.
Herman Spruijt, President, International Publishers Association
Lois F. Wasoff, Legal Consultant, former Vice President and Corporate Couns=
el,=A0=A0 Houghton Mifflin Company

12:45-2:00=A0 Lunch

2:00-3:30=A0 Panel:=A0 Authors and Incentives=A0 (Moderator:=A0 Professor J=
ane C. Ginsburg, Columbia Law School)

What will the settlement mean for authors and their ability to earn a livin=
g from their works?=A0 What about authors whose works are not covered by th=
e settlement?

Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, Copyright Clearance Center
Michael J. Boni, partner, Boni & Zack LLC, lead counsel for the Authors Gui=
ld and the Author Sub-Class in the Google Settlement
Jan Constantine, General Counsel & Assistant Director of the Authors Guild
Arthur Klebanoff, President of both Scott Meredith Literary Agency and Rose=
ttaBooks, an e-book publisher.
Eugene Linden, Author, Winds of Change, The Future and Plain Sight and othe=
r books.
Victor S. Perlman, General Counsel and Managing Director, American Society =
of Media Photographers, Inc. (ASMP)

4:00-5:30=A0=A0 Panel:=A0 The Public Interest (Moderator:=A0 Mary Rasenberg=
er, Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP)

What are the potential benefits to society from the proposed settlement?=A0=
 Are there valid concerns about having a single business serve as the princ=
ipal research and electronic access portal for vast numbers of books?

Jeffrey Cunard, Managing Partner, Washington, D.C. office, Debevoise & Plim=
pton LLP
Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of th=
e Harvard University Library
James Grimmelmann, Professor, New York Law School
Alexander Macgillivray, Associate General Counsel for Products and Intellec=
tual Property, Google Inc.
Carol A. Mandel, Dean, Division of Libraries, New York University


Sponsors

Columbia Law School and the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts gr=
atefully acknowledge the following conference sponsors:

The Horace S. Manges Lecture and Conference Fund
The Copyright Society of the U.S.A.
Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

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Please note that continuing legal education credits are not available for t=
his program.

While speakers will discuss the settlement and its implications, they will =
not review all aspects of it in detail, so participants may wish to familia=
rize themselves with the settlement in advance of the conference.=A0 Links =
to relevant materials are available on the Kernochan Center website at www.=
kernochancenter.org.