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Notice of this very interesting conference in October is posted here on behalf of our colleagues at Emory. Free Culture & the Digital Library: A Symposium presented by the MetaScholar Initiative of Emory University Libraries http://MetaScholar.org/events/2005/freeculture/ Location: Gambrell Hall (Emory Law School) 1301 Clifton Road Atlanta, Georgia Date: Friday, October 14, 2005 9:00 A.M. - 5:30 P.M. Registration (includes lunch and published proceedings): $115 Early Registration Fee (Before Oct. 1, 2005) $175 Late Registration Fee (Oct. 1 - 14, 2005) ****************************************************** Free Culture is the label for the grassroots movement that is resisting the ways that "big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity" (Lessig, *Free Culture,* 2004). This symposium seeks to promote a better understanding of the impacts of restrictions on the dissemination of public cultural information. Featuring Lawrence Lessig and Siva Vaidhyanathan, as well as leading figures from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the arXiv e-Print archive, Wikipedia, the Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP), the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), this interdisciplinary symposium will explore the following issues: * The relationship between digital innovation and legal constraints * Regulation of public cultural information and artifacts * Digital library research and systems development * Freedom of ideas in the Internet age * Copyright law and intellectual property concerns Featured Speakers: Lawrence Lessig, Siva Vaidhyanathan Additional Speakers Include: Edward Fox, Clifford Lynch, Mary Rasenburger Paper Presentations by: Joseph Corneli, Bradley Daigle, Debora Halbert, Marjorie Heins, Barrie Howard, James A. Jacobs, Aaron Krowne, William Maher, Daniel Mayer, Meghan Miller Brawley, Robert Milson, Karrie Peterson, Raymond Puzio, Denise Troll Covey, Simeon Warner ************************* Biographical Information: Lawrence Lessig Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society, Lessig is the author of *The Future of Ideas* and *Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.* Professor Lessig also chairs the Creative Commons project, and is a boardmember of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and of the Center for the Public Domain. Siva Vaidhyanathan Professor at New York University, Professor Vaidhyanathan is a renowned cultural historian, media scholar and author of *Copyrights and Copywrongs* and *The Anarchist in the Library.* Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals including: *American Scholar,* *The Chronicle of Higher Education,* *The New York Times Magazine* and *The Nation.* Edward Fox Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, Fox directs the Internet Technology Innovation Center at Virginia Tech, Digital Library Research Laboratory, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library (CITIDEL). He has been (co)PI on over 80 research and development projects. Clifford Lynch Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997, Lynch also currently serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress. He now serves on the National Research Council's Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration. Mary Rasenberger Policy Advisor for Special Programs in the Office of Policy and International Affairs of the U.S. Copyright Office and the Office of Strategic Initiatives, Rasenberger currently oversees the partnership agreements for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). Joseph Corneli Paper: "A Scholia-Based Document Model for Commons-Based Peer Production" Corneli is a former mathematics graduate student who is now a freelance researcher working at the intersection of math, computers, and society. He is involved in a number of projects including the Hyperreal Dictionary of Mathematics and PlanetMath. Bradley Daigle Paper: "How Do We Sustain Digital Scholarship?" Daigle is the Associate Director of the University of Virginia Library, overseeing a unit that digitizes the library's special collections and rare materials. Daigle also leads a statewide team of Special Collections staff to establish statewide standards and best practices for creating digital objects from special collections materials. Debora Halbert Paper: "The Librarian Revolutionary: Creating Cultural Exchange and Preservation on the Internet" Author of *Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of Expanding Property Rights* and *Resisting Intellectual Property,* Halbert has also written numerous articles on copyright issues. Marjorie Heins Paper: "Will Fair Use Survive the Digital Age?" Founder of the Free Expression Policy Project, Heins is a fellow in the Brennan Center for Justice Democracy Program. Heins is the author of *Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth* and *The Progress of Science and Useful Arts: Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom.* Barrie Howard Paper: "Greasing the Wheels of Regulation" Howard is the program associate of the Digital Library Federation. He is the project manager for the DLF Distributed Library: OAI for Digital Library Aggregation, an IMLS 2004 National Leadership Grant project. Aaron Krowne Paper: "How Free Culture Will Save Digital Libraries" Aaron Krowne is Head of Digital Library Research at Emory University. He is also the founder of PlanetMath and was formerly a student at Virginia Tech's Digital Library Research Lab. William Maher Paper: "Heritage and Culture Under Lock, but No Key: The Problem of Unpublished Orphan Works" Maher is the University Archivist and Professor of Library Administration (1995-) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Daniel Mayer Paper: "Trusting the User: Wikipedia As an Example" Mayer is Chief Financial Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation and a long-time and very active Wikipedia user. Meghan Miller Brawley Paper: "Catalysts for Change: Librarians and Open Access" Miller Brawley is currently at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in the School of Information Sciences and is affiliated with the Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives. Robert Milson Paper: "Adapting CBPP Platforms for Instructional Delivery" Robert Milson is a member of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie in 1999. His research interests include differential geometry and mathematical physics. Karrie Peterson and James A. Jacobs Paper: "Government Information in the Digital Era: Free Culture or Controlled Substance?" Peterson is Head of Government Information Services at North Carolina State University Libraries, a unit that encompasses government information, data services and GIS, patents and trademarks, and maps. Jacobs is Data Services Librarian at the University of California San Diego where, since 1985, he has provided online access to social science data. Raymond Puzio Paper: "Free Math and Potential Bottlenecks" Puzio is an adjunct member of the Department of Physics at the University of Memphis and a regular contributor to PlanetMath. Denise Troll Covey Paper: "Rights, Registries, and Remedies: An Analysis of Responses to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry Regarding Orphan Works" Principal Librarian for Special Projects at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, Troll Covey is responsible for conducting research to inform library administration and strategic planning. Simeon Warner Paper: "The arXiv: 14 Years of Open Access Scientific Communication" A noted expert on the OAI (Open Archives Initiative) Protocol, Warner helped establish the arXiv e-Print archive. Warner currently works in the Computer and Information Science Program at Cornell University. For more information on the symposium and to register, please visit: http://MetaScholar.org/events/2005/freeculture/