IIPSJ Forum: Equalizing Access to Knowledge
The Forum on Equalizing Access to Knowledge Forum sponsored and presented by The Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice at Howard University School of Law and Google Inc.
This unique policy forum featured a discussion on Google's book digitization project and its relationship to social justice and access to information. Photos of the event.
Book Search is Google's ambitious initiative to digitize the world's books to make them easier to find and access online. Over the last six years, Google has worked with rightsholders as well as libraries on this project. Google, authors, and publishers have recently negotiated an agreement to address concerns of the various stakeholders including copyright holders, authors, libraries, users, Google, and others. For more information about Google Book Search and the agreement with authors and publishers visit http://books.google.com/settlement.
IIPSJ, Inc., has prepared a brief memo highlighting its position concerning the Google Book Search project which is available both in an online verison and a downloadable pdf version.
Google has posted a video of the session online.
The Forum Program
Keynote Address: David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, Google Inc.
Panel Discussion, featuring:
Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law and Director of IIPSJ at Howard University School of Law
Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR)
Charles Brown, Esq., Advisor to the President of the National Federation of the Blind
Brent Wilkes, National Executive Director for the League of United Latin American Citizens
Rhea Ballard-Thrower, Director, Law Library, Howard University School of Law
When: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 9am – 11am
Where: Howard University School of Law
About the Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
The Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization which examines intellectual property and its relationship to social justice in the United States and in the wider world. Through its programs, IIPSJ Inc., seeks to advance the social policy objectives that underlie intellectual property protection, i.e., the stimulation of creative enterprise and the broad dissemination of creative works and achievements, particularly within communities that have traditionally been underserved and underrepresented in intellectual property ownership, exploitation, and use. For more information, please visit iipsj.org.