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23 Dec ' 12:16
A Legal Perspective on the Google Book Search Settlement
Tuesday, January 12, 2009
Archivists, librarians, and information professionals who preserve and provide access to orphan works have been closely following the Google Book Search settlement. The outcome will have a far-reaching impact on these professions, but copyright law seems insurmountably complex to many in these fields. James Grimmelmann of New York Law School has graciously offered to bring the Archivists Round Table up-to-date on this important and timely issue.
Mr. Grimmelmann will review the history of the Google Books project, lawsuit, and proposed settlement, then discuss the questions it raises for information policy and the rule of law. These touch on issues of copyright, antitrust, privacy, free speech, and civil procedure, and are connected to bigger themes in public policy.
James Grimmelmann is Associate Professor at New York Law School and a member of its Institute for Information Law and Policy. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of LawMeme and a member of the Yale Law Journal. He has served as a Resident Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale, as a legal intern for Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. As a lawyer and technologist, he aims to help these two groups speak intelligibly to each other. He writes about intellectual property, virtual worlds, search engines, online privacy, and other topics in computer and Internet law.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 (this is also the 1 Annual World’s Fair Use Day)
Place: New York Law School, 185 West Broadway (between Worth & Leonard Streets), Manhattan
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm Social ; 6:30 - 8:00 pm Program
Subway Directions: Easily accessible from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, W, R, J, Z trains. Please visit the following URL for more specific directions: http://www.nyls.edu/about_the_school/contactmeet_us
FREE to members of the Archivists Round Table and faculty, staff, and students of New York Law School. $6 admission for all others
To Jennifer Anna by Thursday, January 7, 2010 . Please provide first and last name and institutional affiliation within body of message. Please be sure that you can attend before responding.
The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York expresses its gratitude to New York Law School for making this event possible.
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