CDL: CD Symposium: Digital Rights

From:  Bernadette Corley Troge <b-trog_at_tc.umn.edu>


 An Open Invitation

The University of Minnesota Libraries and MINITEX invite you to attend 
Digital Rights: Authorship, Ownership, and Partnership at the 9th Annual 
Collection Development Symposium.  The evolving digital age presents new 
and complicated challenges for those who are creating and providing access 
to content. Simultaneously, new opportunities for authors and libraries 
(both as providers of and partners in the creation of information) are being 
presented.  Many questions about copyright are puzzling. 

·       What makes a work copyright-protected or not?
·       If a library creates a digital image of an item in the public domain, 
            does the library own the co pyright for the digital images?
·       What are the rights of copyright owners on the Internet?
·       What challenges and opportunities do emerging technologies provide 
            authors?
·       How can libra ries partner with faculty authors to create, manage, 
            and deliver digital content?

This symposium is directed towards academic librarians and is intended to 
be thought-and discussion-provoking. We hope you will have both new 
insights and new information at the close of the day.

Kenneth D. Crews, Professor in the Indiana University School of Law, with 
a joint appointment in the IU School of Library and Information Science, 
in addition to holding the Directorship of IU’s Copyright Management Center, 
will speak on intellectual property and rights issues from the library’s 
perspective.  He will address ways in which libraries might anticipate, 
avoid and respond to potential legal difficulties stemming from electronic 
copyright issues.  Issues such as the rights of copyright owners, libraries 
making digital surrogates of materials no longer covered by copyright, and 
how first sale doctrine applies in the digital realm will be touched on in
 “Ownership.”

Marianne Gaunt, University Librarian at Rutgers, has been involved with 
the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) since its inception. 
CETH was established by Rutgers and Princeton Universities in October 1991 
and is one of the oldest of these centers. CETH provides a national focus 
for those involved in the creation, dissemination and use of electronic texts 
in the humanities.   Marianne’s experience with collaborative digital 
resource creation and publishing at Rutgers prov ides a natural platform to 
discuss “Partnership.”  How can Libraries partner with faculty authors to 
create, manage and deliver digital content?

Warren Alder, author of 24 novels, including Morning Glory, The War of the 
Roses and Random Hearts, is one of the few, perhaps the only novelist in the
world, who has created a complete eBook library of his works, which are 
available world-wide on every electronic platform. Warren speaking on
“Authorship” 
will discuss digital content creation and access from the author’s perspective. 
What opportunities and challenges do emerging technologies provide authors?  
How will eBooks and Print-on-Demand technologies effect authors in the future?

The symposium will take place on May 20, 2002 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm at the 
Earle Brown Continuing Education Center on the St. Paul Campus of the
University of Minnesota.  The cost is $55 and will include lunch and breaks. 
To register send a check payable to th e University of Minnesota along with 
your name, affiliation, address, telephone/fax number and email address to:      
    
Bernadette Corley Troge
Collection Symposium
University of Minnesota Libraries
Magrath Library
1984 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN  55108
(612)624-1720 
b-trog_at_tc.umn.edu

For more information on the speakers and the symposium visit our website at
http:\\sdt.lib.umn.edu/cdm/