The Technology of Copyright: Digital Rights Management

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: fyi
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:18:53 -0500
From: "Elizabeth Mulherrin" <emulherrin@xxxxxxxx>
Organization: University of Maryland University College
To: Stephen Miller <smiller@xxxxxxxx>,Yu-Hsiu Wang <ywang@xxxxxxxx>,
Neal Pomea <npomea@xxxxxxxx>,Olga Francois <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>

The Public Service Collections Directorate of the Library of Congress is

sponsoring a talk by Karen Coyle on November 19, 2003 [in-person and via

live webcast]:

Karen Coyle, a Digital Library Specialist with over two decades of
experience in digital libraries will be presenting a lecture entitled,
"The Technology of Copyright: Digital Rights Management" at the Library
of Congress on Wednesday, November 19th, from 10:30am - 12:00pm in the
Pickford Theater on the 3rd floor of the Library of Congress' James
Madison Building, located at First Street and Independence Avenue SE,
Washington, D.C.  No reservations are necessary.  All lectures are free
and open to the public.  This lecture will be broadcast live via the
Internet at  http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/coyle.html on the
morning of the lecture, EST, and will be viewable with Real Player
software.

Without technological controls, digital documents are easily copied.
Publishers of texts, music and video are looking to digital rights
management (DRM) technology to allow them to distribute and sell their
goods in digital format with a limited risk of piracy. DRM technologies
in development today range from simple password control to elaborate
models of trusted systems. They all exercise some control over the use
of materials they protect. What will it mean to writers, publishers,
readers and libraries to work with documents that are protected by
technology? How does DRM interact with copyright law? Can we live with
it? Can we survive without it?

Karen Coyle has most recently worked for the Division of Library
Automation at the University of California and the California Digital
Library. She is a well-known metadata expert, and has served on the MARC

standards committee, the NISO OpenURL committee, and has advised in the
development of MODS and other metadata efforts.