Libraries, privacy and intellectual property
This is the event I had mentioned on Michael Zimmer’s blog that I thought would be relevant to our ongoing discussion about libraries and privacy:
Recommended preconference: Libraries, privacy and intellectual property – Friday June 22, 2007
https://www3.oclc.org/app/ala_registration/
Friday June 22, 2007 1:30 – 4:30 pm, Grand Hyatt Washington, Independence Ballroom A
OCLC Symposium: Is the Library Open?
Join your colleagues and OCLC for an interesting afternoon discussion. Hear from three experts on the issues of information property law, copyright, digital communication, intellectual property and user privacy rights in relation to library policies. They are:
- Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and professor of privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian, media scholar and Associate Professor of culture and communication at New York University
- Mary Minow, Library Law Consultant with LibraryLaw.com, coauthor of The Library’s Legal Answer Book and a public librarian for 10 years.
Seen at: http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2007/05/libraries_and_p_1.html
Dang – Siva didn’t tell me he’s doing this! Will have to see about attending…
Heh.
I’d offer to give you a lift if I go, but you’d have to promise not to scream in terror at my driving like my kids and husband always do.
Did you go to this? I flew out for a privacy workshop at Berkeley instead…
Nope. My co-author decided to send me a bunch of chapter drafts, so I landed up staying here for the weekend. Can you get copies of the presentations from your friend? If not, I’ll try to email Marc R. to see if we can get a copy of his presentation.
By the way, did you see this:
http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2007/06/patron_privacy_.html
FYI: The audio of this panel has been posted here:
http://www.oclc.org/reports/privacyandtrust/default.htm
Thanks, Michael!