From: Lloyd Davidson <Ldavids_at_northwestern.edu>
At the Annual ALA conference in San Francisco
on Sunday, June 17, 2001, 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM , Marriott Hotel, Salon 7,
The Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals IG of LITA will present:
Digital Rights Management Systems: How They Will Affect Intellectual Property
Rights, Information Access and Libraries
Digital rights management systems control access and usage of digital material
and their successful deployment is essential for the economic survival
of any company that wishes to profitably publish any type of material on the
Internet. They are also on the verge of becoming a major operational component
of library services and are already having an impact in controlling access
to electronic books and journals. However, besides simply limiting access,
they can further be used to protect against copyright violations while
providing many of the fair use rights and other privileges scholarly
communities consider essential. This session will attempt to
begin defining a set of solutions that fits the needs of intellectual
property creators, owners and users.
Speakers will include, in this order:
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of CNI and one of the library community's
best synthesizers of information about technology's impact on libraries.
Mark Stefik, Author of "The Internet Edge: Social Legal, and Technological
Challenges for a Networked World" (MIT Press, 2000) and the original
developer of the software that became ContentGuard, one of the major digital
rights management systems. He is currently a research fellow at Xerox PARC
and manager of the Human-Document Interaction Area in the Information
Sciences and Technology Laboratory.
Dennis McNannay, Recently Vice President at InterTrust Technologies,
currently one of the most successful digital rights management companies,
and a recognized expert on digital rights management systems.
Prasad Ram, Previously General Manager of ContentGuard when it was at
Xerox, and now co-founder, with Carol Risher (recently of AAP), of
Savantech, a company developing digital media distribution solutions in
support of digital commerce.
James Neal, Dean of University Libraries & the Sheridan Director,
Johns Hopkins University and nationally known speaker on digital
issues and electronic
publishing.
Lloyd Davidson, Northwestern University, Moderator
Received on Fri Jun 08 2001 - 09:25:23 EDT