Colleagues,

Registration for this upcoming workshop ends on January 25.

Google Book Search in Depth.
Dates: February 1-12, 2010 (Register by January 25).
Instructor: Peter Jaszi, J.D., Faculty Director of the Glushko-Samuelson
Intellectual Property Law Clinic and Professor of Law at the Washington
College of Law at American University.

Prof. Jaszi's workshop will consider the various elements of and
objections to the Google Book Search settlement -- with emphasis on how
they affect libraries -- including the controversy it provoked, the
proposals to settle that controversy, and the objections those proposals
have evoked. Moreover, the workshop will analyze the extent that
culturally valuable mass digitization projects may be justified under
the fair use doctrine.

Guest chatters include:
-Brandon Badger, M.A., Product Manager, Google Inc. 
-Jonathan Band, J.D., PLLC.
-Pamela Samuelson, J.D., Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology,
and Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley Law School. 
-Jeffrey Cunard, J.D., Managing Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.

Detailed Description & Course Objectives: http://tinyurl.com/yzjo56h.
 
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Upcoming Workshop:
Fred von Lohmann, J.D., Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, is the instructor of the next workshop titled P2P
File-sharing on Campus: Legal Controversies and Emerging Solutions which
runs from March 1-12. This workshop will bring you up-to-date on the
legal issues surrounding peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing, emerging
solutions (such as the music industry's Choruss licensing offers), and
the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA). Learn more at
http://tinyurl.com/yzkbtoj.
 
Copyright Certification:
Advance your career with the new certification program Copyright
Leadership in Higher Education.  Certification begins with the core
course Foundations in Copyright Management and Leadership, which will be
offered March 29 - May 21, 2010.  Participants in the certificate
program also take one elective workshop.  Register for certification
today and receive either upcoming workshop as your elective at no
additional charge. Learn more at
http://www.cipcommunity.org/certification.
 

SAVE THE DATES! 
CIP Symposium: June 22-24, 2010, Washington, DC.
Hybrid (c): Sustaining Culture in Copyright.
Come to the symposium for the latest on copyright & stay for the ALA
Annual Conference (June 24-30).
Register now at http://www.umuc.edu/cip2010.

Steve Petersen
Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Boulevard East
Adelphi, MD  20783
(240)684-2865 office
(240)684-2961 fax
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