Copyright Conference Announcement

[Michael Levy]

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT


THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN COPYRIGHT: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Saturday, May 4, 1996
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Krutch Theater, The Clark Kerr Campus, University of California, Berkeley

To register please call:
UC Berkeley Extension
(510) 642-4111
EDP 183020

$50.00 in advance: $65.00 at the door
$15.00 UC faculty, students and staff
Lunch is included

Join publishers, scholars, educators, librarians, legal practioners,
historians, and creators of copyrightable works to help develop a vision of
the public interest in copyright in a digital age. Conference participants
will analyze copyright in  historical, present and future contexts to
determine how the  public interest can become an integral part of the NII
White Paper and recent copyright legislation debates. One of the major
thrusts will be to emphasize the value of a utilitarian balance of private
and public goods as the more productive area for discussion and resolution
of copyright issues.

                                  Speakers

Peter Choy                      Counsel, Sun Microsystems

Esther Dyson                    President, Edventure Holdings

Carla Hesse                     Professor of History, University of
California, Berkeley

Joel Linzner                    Attorney, Townsend and Townsend and Crew

Clifford Lynch                  Director, Library Automation, University of
California

John Nash                               Director of Publishing, Matthew
Bender Company

Paul Evan Peters        Executive Director, the Coalition for Networked
Information

Monroe Price                    Professor of Law, Benjamin Cardozo Law
School,Yeshiva University

Mark Rose                       Professor of English, University of
California, Santa Barbara

Pamela Samuelson        Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh

Jonathan Tasini                 President, National Writers Union

Hal Varian                      Dean, School of Information and Management
Systems, University of California, Berkeley

         (Speakers subject to change)


UNIVERSITY SPONSORS

The Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley

The School of Information Management Systems,University of California, Berkeley

The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities

The University Library

Boalt Hall School of Law

UC Extension

University of California Office of the President

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CORPORATE & LAW FIRM SPONSORS

Apple Computer

Sun Microsystems

Townsend Townsend & Crew

CONTACT INFORMATION:

WEBSITE:
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/copyright.html

Kathleen Vanden Heuvel
Boalt Hall Law Library
510 643 9147
kvandenh at boalt.berkeley.edu

Michael Levy
Boalt Hall Law Library
510 643 4025
levym at boalt.berkeley.edu
PANEL INFORMATION



PANEL I.

        AUTHORSHIP AND THE MODES OF PRODUCTION

Mark Rose:      Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara

Peter Choy:     Counsel, Sun Microsystems and Chair of ACIS

Jonathan Tasini (or designate): President, National Writers Union

Joel Linzner:   Attorney, Townsend and Townsend and Crew

Moderator:      Geoff Nunberg, Xerox Parc


PANEL II

        PUBLICATION AND THE MODES OF CONSUMPTION

Clifford Lynch:         Director of Library Automation, UC Systemwide

Paul Evan Peters:       Chair, Coalition for Networked Information

Hal Varian:             Dean, SIMS

John Nash:                      Director of Publishing, Matthew Bender Company


PANEL III

        THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND MODES OF COMMUNICATION

Pam Samuelson:  Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh

Carla Hesse:    Professor of History, UCB

Monroe Price:  Professor of Law, Yeshiva University, Benjamin Cardozo Law School

Esther Dyson:   President, Edventure Holdings

Moderator: Robert Post, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall Law School