Symposium: Copyright at a Crossroads

["Jack Boeve" <JBoeve@xxxxxxxx>]

6th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property
http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/index.html

Hosted by The Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland
University College June 14-16, 2006 UMUC Inn and Conference Center
Adelphi, MD

The debate over the mass digitization and global availability of
information has raged anew ever since late 2004 when Google publicly
launched its ambitious plans to digitize and index the massive library
collections of Harvard University, Stanford University, the University
of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and the New York Public Library.
Even as the Google Print Library Project has garnered the attention and
applause of millions of consumers and educators, it has drawn the
ire-and litigation-of the Authors Guild and the Association of American
Publishers.

Yahoo has likewise entered the fray with its own project to digitize and
make available for online searching millions of books from the
University of California, the University of Toronto, the National
Archives of England, and the European Archive. A joint effort with these
and several other archives and technology companies, the Open Content
Alliance hopes to avoid much of the controversy in which Google has been
embroiled by digitizing only works in the public domain unless copyright
holders give explicit permission otherwise.