Pre-Conference Seminars
Wednesday, May 28, 2008; 1:00-4:00 PM
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Whether you are looking for a refresher seminar or are working with the topic of copyright from the beginning, this seminar will be a valuable session. Topics covered will include: an introduction to the basics of copyright, including the copyright rights and limitations; educational exemptions, particularly for online and digital distance education and the TEACH Act; fair use; copyright terms and orphan works; the DMCA; the impact on education of the online service providers limitation on liability; and such hot topics in digital copyright as Google's digitization of library collections and peer-to-peer file sharing following recent Supreme Court decisions.
Arnold Lutzker
Attorney, Lutzker & Lutzker LLPArnold Lutzker is Senior Partner at Lutzker & Lutzker, LLP. He practices copyright, trademark, Internet, art and entertainment law. He counsels on issues of ownership and use of intellectual property and assists clients in matters of selection and registration of trademarks, licensing and effective management of trademark and copyright portfolios, and taking action on infringement claims. Mr. Lutzker has special expertise in the trademark and copyright issues that surround new media, intellectual property policy, and education. His clients include companies in the media, software and hardware, film and television program production and telecommunications, and the Internet, as well as leading academic and library institutions. In the legislative area, he has represented a consortium of five national library associations on the DMCA, CTE Act, and the Teach Act. He also has represented the Directors Guild of America and the Film Foundation in connection with their effort to protect classic American movies. In the litigation arena, he filed amicus briefs for numerous library and educational associations in major U.S. Supreme Court cases. He is the author of three books: Content Rights for the Creative Professional: Copyrights and Trademarks in a Digital Age (2002); Copyrights and Trademarks for Media Professionals (1997); and Legal Problems in Broadcasting (1974). He is also the author of a video, Copyrights: The Internet, Multimedia and the Law ( 1997), and numerous articles on copyright and trademark issues. Prior to establishing Lutzker & Lutzker with his wife, he was a principal in the Washington law firm of Fish & Richardson, P.C. and a partner in Dow, Lohnes & Albertson. He graduated City College of New York (magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School (cum laude).
Dru Zuretti
Client Relationship and Education Manager, Copyright Clearance CenterDru Zuretti is the Client Relationship and Education Manager at Copyright Clearance Center and has been with CCC since 1997, serving in a variety of customer facing roles, including leadership and management of the Customer Relations Group. Two years ago, CCC recognized the need for a more concerted educational outreach in response to customer needs, and Dru’s responsibilities were transferred into her present position as Client Relationship Manager. In this role, Dru travels and visits many U.S. college and university campuses, businesses, consortia and corporations, at their request. She also has been a presenter on copyright issues for a variety of national conferences, including the National Association of College Stores at ConTEXT and CAMEX, the Medical Library Association Annual Conference, the Special Library Association Annual Conference, Big Ten Printing and Copyright Conference, Print Image International, and the Association of College and University Printers. Prior to coming to CCC Dru was the President and General Manager of the Credit Bureau of Eastern Massachusetts, an independent credit reporting and collections agency located in Salem, Massachusetts. Dru is a member of the National Speakers Association and International Coaching Federation, and has a Master of Education degree from Cambridge College.
Writings about public domain works use the unfortunate description “the work fell into the public domain” as if something very unfortunate had happened to the work! The public domain must feel as if it has a split personality: faculty members, librarians and other users of works of art, literature and music love the public domain. It means they can freely copy, use and adapt these works for their own purposes, even commercial ones. Copyright owners sometimes love the public domain and sometimes dislike it; certainly producers of copyrighted works borrow liberally from the public domain to create their works, but at the same time many of them work hard to ensure that copyright protection lasts as long as possible to prevent their works from entering the public domain—even those that are no longer commercially viable. Fair use remains the safety valve, the mainstay for users of copyrighted works who want to use them as building blocks to create other works, to educate students and for scholarship and private study. Among the questions this session will cover are:
- How has fair use been impacted by the digital age?
- Will fair use remain a vibrant pillar for users of copyrighted works, or has society entered the pay-for-use era?
- What can we do to protect the public domain?
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Law, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Laura Gasaway joined the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law in 1985 as director of the law library and professor of law. She was law library director at the University of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1984, where she directed and taught in the Law School's foreign program at Queen's College, Oxford, England, for three summers. From 1973 to 1975, she was law librarian and assistant professor of law at the University of Houston. In addition to her library responsibilities, Gasaway teaches courses on copyright and cyberspace law. She also teaches copyright law and legal resources in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science. She is a past president of the American Association of Law Libraries and is active in the Special Libraries Association (SLA). She received the SLA's John Cotton Dana award in 1987 and was named a fellow of the association in 1988. Gasaway has served on the American Bar Association's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and its accreditation committee. At UNC-Chapel Hill she has chaired the Committee on the Status of Women and the Women's Concerns Coalition. In 1992, she received the Mary Turner Lane Award from the Association for Women Faculty and Professionals. In 1992, she was elected to the Executive Committee of the Faculty Council and was reelected to a three-year term in 1993. She served as chair of the UNC Faculty Assembly (all 16 campuses) from 1997 to 1999. Gasaway was the first virtual scholar in residence at the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College, 2001-2002. She coauthored Librarians and Copyright: A Guide to Copyright in the 1990s (1994), and has edited Growing Pains: Adapting Copyright for Education, Libraries, and Society (1997), and Law Librarianship: Historical Perspectives (1996).
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