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July 14, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media
[1] [TUESDAY 7/21/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series on "A Discussion Around the Google Book Search Settlement" with Alexander Macgillivray of Google (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/07/macgillivray)
[2] [7/31/09] Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries in the Shadow of the Google Book Search Settlement (http://cyber.harvard.edu/googlebooks/Main_Page)
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on DISCUSSING THE GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH SETTLEMENT
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7/21/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).
This event is now full. Additional RSVPs for in-person attendance will be added to a waitlist.
The webcast does not require RSVP.
Topic: A Discussion Around the Google Book Search Settlement
Guest: Alexander Macgillivray of Google
Alexander Macgillivray, Deputy General Counsel for Products and Intellectual Property at Google (and soon to be General Counsel of Twitter), will discuss the Google Book Search Settlement.
On Friday, July 31, the Berkman Center plans to host an Open Workshop, partly informed by this luncheon conversation, regarding the settlement and encourage those interested to attend or learn more and register here: http://cyber.harvard.edu/googlebooks/Main_Page.
This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/07/macgillivray
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO OPEN DIGITAL LIBRARIES / GOOGLE BOOKS SETTLEMENT OPEN WORKSHOP
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7/31/09, All Day, Harvard Law School
Registration is required via http://cyber.harvard.edu/googlebooks/Main_Page
he proposed Google Book Search settlement creates the opportunity for unprecedented access by the public, scholars, libraries and others to a digital library containing millions of books assembled by major research libraries. But the settlement is controversial, in large part because this access is limited in major ways: instead of being truly open, this new digital library will be controlled by a single company, Google, and a newly created Book Rights Registry consisting of representatives of authors and publishers; it will include millions of so-called “orphan works” that cannot legally be included in any competing digitization and access effort, and it will be available to readers only in the United States. It need not have been this way.
This workshop seeks to bring a fresh, unique perspective to a complex and widely debated topic. It will focus not on the specific merits and demerits of the settlement itself, or the particular antitrust and privacy and other objections that have been raised. Instead, it will examine the idea of possible alternative universes and offer specific proposals for scenarios that may arise whether or not the settlement is approved . What can libraries, or universities, or non-profits, or Congress, do in the current landscape? And how might these possibilities help us to define a better world than the one that we have today and, more importantly, than the one that will exist if the Google settlement is approved in its current form? Regardless of what happens with respect to the Settlement, what alternative possibilities could lead to a richer, more open and better information ecosystem than the one we have today or might have tomorrow with the Settlement?
By exploring these alternatives, this workshop seeks, in the end, to help inform the debate over the Settlement and its terms and to illuminate some of the key policy considerations that are at stake. Its ultimate goal is to develop a series of options and proposals that could improve on the status quo in novel ways.
More information and registration here: http://cyber.harvard.edu/googlebooks/Main_Page
OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
======================
[1] 8/14/09 Social Technology and Education Conference at Harvard University (http://www.socialtecheducation.com/)
[2] Call for Participation: Free Culture Research Workshop 2009 (http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5486)
DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive.
-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Amazon's Mechanical Turk with Berkman Fellow AARON SHAW (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/07/shaw)
-CLUETRAIN @ 10: SO HOW'S UTOPIA WORKING OUT FOR YA? with DOC SEARLS, DAVID WEINBERGER, and JONATHAN ZITTRAIN (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/06/cluetrain)
-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES: Changing the World of Changing the World: Pushing the Models of Online Organizing with BEN WIKLER of Avaaz.org (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2009/06/wikler)
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July 14, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media
[1] [TUESDAY 7/21/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series on "A Discussion Around the Google Book Search Settlement" with Alexander Macgillivray of Google (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/07/macgillivray)
[2] [7/31/09] Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries in the Shadow of the Google Book Search Settlement (http://cyber.harvard.edu/googlebooks/Main_Page)
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on DISCUSSING THE GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH SETTLEMENT
================================================================================
7/21/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).
This event is now full. Additional RSVPs for in-person attendance will be added to a waitlist.
The webcast does not require RSVP.
Topic: A Discussion Around the Google Book Search Settlement
Guest: Alexander Macgillivray of Google
Alexander Macgillivray, Deputy General Counsel for Products and Intellectual Property at Google (and soon to be General Counsel of Twitter), will discuss the Google Book Search Settlement.
On Friday, July 31, the Berkman Center plans to host an Open Workshop, partly informed by this luncheon conversation, regarding the settlement and encourage those interested to attend or learn more and register here: http://cyber.harvard.edu/googlebooks/Main_Page.
This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/07/macgillivray
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO OPEN DIGITAL LIBRARIES / GOOGLE BOOKS SETTLEMENT OPEN WORKSHOP
================================================================================
7/31/09, All Day, Harvard Law School
Registration is required via http://cyber.harvard.edu/googlebooks/Main_Page
he proposed Google Book Search settlement creates the opportunity for unprecedented access by the public, scholars, libraries and others to a digital library containing millions of books assembled by major research libraries. But the settlement is controversial, in large part because this access is limited in major ways: instead of being truly open, this new digital library will be controlled by a single company, Google, and a newly created Book Rights Registry consisting of representatives of authors and publishers; it will include millions of so-called “orphan works” that cannot legally be included in any competing digitization and access effort, and it will be available to readers only in the United States. It need not have been this way.
This workshop seeks to bring a fresh, unique perspective to a complex and widely debated topic. It will focus not on the specific merits and demerits of the settlement itself, or the particular antitrust and privacy and other objections that have been raised. Instead, it will examine the idea of possible alternative universes and offer specific proposals for scenarios that may arise whether or not the settlement is approved . What can libraries, or universities, or non-profits, or Congress, do in the current landscape? And how might these possibilities help us to define a better world than the one that we have today and, more importantly, than the one that will exist if the Google settlement is approved in its current form? Regardless of what happens with respect to the Settlement, what alternative possibilities could lead to a richer, more open and better information ecosystem than the one we have today or might have tomorrow with the Settlement?
By exploring these alternatives, this workshop seeks, in the end, to help inform the debate over the Settlement and its terms and to illuminate some of the key policy considerations that are at stake. Its ultimate goal is to develop a series of options and proposals that could improve on the status quo in novel ways.
More information and registration here: http://cyber.harvard.edu/googlebooks/Main_Page
OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
======================
[1] 8/14/09 Social Technology and Education Conference at Harvard University (http://www.socialtecheducation.com/)
[2] Call for Participation: Free Culture Research Workshop 2009 (http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5486)
DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
===============================
Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive.
-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Amazon's Mechanical Turk with Berkman Fellow AARON SHAW (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/07/shaw)
-CLUETRAIN @ 10: SO HOW'S UTOPIA WORKING OUT FOR YA? with DOC SEARLS, DAVID WEINBERGER, and JONATHAN ZITTRAIN (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/06/cluetrain)
-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES: Changing the World of Changing the World: Pushing the Models of Online Organizing with BEN WIKLER of Avaaz.org (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2009/06/wikler)
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BERKMAN CALENDAR & UPCOMING EVENTS PREVIEW
=====================================
See our events calendar if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, conferences, and more: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events. All of our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
ABOUT US
========
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. For more information, visit http://cyber.harvard.edu.