“Copyright and
beyond. Libraries in the Public Sphere”
More and more, libraries and their associations are
embracing the (digital) information world. Providing access services online,
delivering documents and articles electronically within their countries and
cross border, digitizing public domain and copyright materials, facilitating
text and data mining activities and hosting user data and catalogues in
“clouds” outside their own jurisdiction, they can find themselves in a
multifaceted, globalized and often challenging legal environment.
This Satellite Conference provides an
overview on topical access to and use of information issues facing libraries.
Discussions in Strasbourg are intended to strengthen a librarian´s knowledge
and position as an invaluable vehicle for providing public access to information.
The following
topics and more will be discussed:
- Information trends: copyright law in the
globalised information economy,
- Libraries, copyright and licensing,
- Libraries and patron´s privacy,
- Regional and international copyright
developments: trade agreements, treaties and beyond.
Mixture of seminar style presentations and workshop discussions throughout
the two days.
Speakers
include:
Victoria Owen, Chief Librarian, University of Toronto
Scarborough and Chair, IFLA Copyright & Other Legal Matters (CLM)
Committee;
Ingrid Parent, University Librarian at the University
of British Columbia, past IFLA President;
Professor
Christophe Geiger,
Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of
Strasbourg;
Professor Tomas
Lipinski, School of Library & Information
Science, Kent State University; Associate Professor;
Lucie Guibault, Institute for Information Law,
University of Amsterdam;
Paul Whitney, Chair, IFLA eLending Working Group;
Ellen Broad, Manager of Digital Projects and Policy,
IFLA;
Frédéric Blin, Head of Preservation and Heritage
Collections, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg & IFLA
Governing Board Member.
More to be
announced soon.