Program at American Library Association Annual Conference in Atlanta

["Thom Deardorff" <tdeardor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The ACRL Copyright Committee has a great program on Sunday of
next week's annual ALA conference relating to a number of issues
of interest to subscribers of  this list.

Thomas Deardorff
Coordinator for Access Services
University of Washington Libraries
tdeardor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
206.685.1469

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Pirates on the Commons:Legal and Political Assaults on Information
Access by the Expanding Domain of Copyright
ALA Annual Conference - Atlanta
Sunday June 16  9:30 - 12 in the Hilton Ballroom A

Find out about the politics of copyright and fair use from the
experts.  Learn how current legal trends could have a profoundly negative
effect on libraries, teaching and scholarship.  Hear about alternatives
to copyright and the growth of the commons movement.  Find out
what ALA is doing and what you can do to get involved.

Speakers:  L. Ray Patterson, Pope Brock Professor of Law, University of
Georgia;
David Bollier, Senior Fellow USC Annenberg  Center for Communications,
Norman Lear Center;
Mary M. Case,  Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication, ARL:
Carrie Russell, Copyright Specialist, ALA

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