Upcoming Events on Info Law and the University
I guess summer is the time for academics to take a step back and engage in some productive self-assessment (as distinguished from “increased navel-gazing,” which surely happens as well).
Two upcoming events typify that sort of valuable self-assessment as it pertains to the university and info/law:
1. The Berkman Center at Harvard is sponsoring the Internet & Society Conference 2007 this Friday, June 1st, with the theme of “University: Knowledge Beyond Authority.” The topics include open access, fair use on campus, the future of the library, and the continuing discord between some schools and the RIAA. It kills me that I can’t make it to Cambridge for this event, although I am hopeful that the streaming link here will let me absorb some of the great discussion I expect to transpire. Go if you can!
2. Later this summer (July 24-27), Cornell and EDUCAUSE are hosting the annual Institute for Computer Policy and Law, aimed at everyone involved in making information and technology policy at institutions of higher education, from librarians to IT people and webmasters to publications and public relations officials. I am speaking at this one, and hope to talk about the vital responsibility that universities have to protect and promote fair use (and not just to establish IP rights!). Sounds like a great line-up of topics here too. And I hear Ithaca is “gorges” in July…
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