For anyone near the Univ. of North Carolina, this is a must. The ramifications of the Google Book Settlement go far beyond the concerns of publishers and authors.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The legal settlement between authors and book publishers and Google regarding the company's indexing and book scanning project will be the focus of the University of North Carolina's third annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science. Pamela Samuelson, the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California at Berkeley and director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology will present "Reflections on the Google Booksearch Settlement" in the Auditorium of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus at 3 p.m. A reception will follow. The lecture is hosted by the School of Information and Library Science at UNC at Chapel Hill. The event is free and open to the public, however seating is limited. Please send your RSVP via e-mail to mpenny at email.unc.edu or call 919.962.8366. Bio: Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California at Berkeley and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw and information privacy. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Contributing Editor of Communications of the ACM, a past Fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as a member of the Advisory Boards for the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge. A 1971 graduate of the University of Hawaii and a 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, Samuelson practiced law as a litigation associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to academic pursuits. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools. She has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1996 and was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School during the fall term 2007. ________________________________________ Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
