For you Bay Area folks. Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes Berkeley, CA From: Colin Dingler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:09 AM To: thl at lists.berkeley.edu Subject: MONDAY 2/8 @ 12: Professor Pamela Samuelson on "Google Book Search and the Future of Access to Scholarly Books" This event is free, wheelchair accessible and open to the public. Please forward widely. We apologize for any cross-postings! Professor Pamela Samuelson: Google Book Search and the Future of Access to Scholarly Books Townsend Center Forum on Digital Technology in Humanities Scholarship Monday, February 8, 12-1 in the Geballe Room, 220 Stevens Hall The Townsend Center for the Humanities is excited to announce the first lunch forum in our spring series on Digital Technology in Humanities Scholarship. Please join the conversation about Google Book Search next Monday with Pamela Samuelson. Joint professor at Berkeley's School of Law and School of Information, as well as director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Samuelson offers a critical viewpoint about the consequences of Google Books for academic researchers and libraries: "The proposed settlement of the Authors Guild v. Google lawsuit which charged Google with copyright infringement for scanning books from major research libraries would bring about much greater access to books. However, there are several reasons to be deeply worried about the settlement because of inadequate privacy protections, risks of price-gouging for institutional subscriptions, and antitrust problems. Beyond this, serious questions exist about whether a complex transformation of the market for digital books such as that envisioned in the proposed settlement can be achieved through a class action lawsuit when it is deeply legislative in nature." Prof. Samuelson's short talk on the subject will be followed by audience Q&A, and a general discussion of the issues. This is a brown bag lunch event, with light refreshments provided. Future lunch forums in the series will be on March 8, and April 15.
