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Subject: Digital Rights Management session at ALA Annual
   Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 16:14:23 -0500
   From: Lloyd Davidson <Ldavids@northwestern.edu>

At the Annual ALA conference in San Francisco,
on Sunday, June 17, 2001,  9:00 AM to 12:30 PM , Marriott Hotel, Salon
7,
The Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals IG of LITA will present:

Digital Rights Management Systems: How They Will Affect Intellectual
Property Rights, Information Access and Libraries

Digital rights management systems control access and usage of digital
material and their successful deployment is essential for the economic
survival of any company that wishes to profitably publish any type of
material on the Internet.  They are also on the verge of becoming a
major operational component of library services and are already having
an impact in controlling access to electronic books and journals.
However, besides simply limiting access, they can further be used to
protect against copyright violations while providing many of the fair
use rights and other privileges scholarly communities consider
essential.  This session will attempt to begin defining a set of
solutions that fits the needs of intellectual property creators, owners
and users.

Speakers will include, in this order:
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of CNI and one of the library
community's best synthesizers of information about technology's impact
on libraries.
Mark Stefik, Author of "The Internet Edge: Social Legal, and
Technological Challenges for a Networked World" (MIT Press, 2000) and
the original developer of the software that became ContentGuard, one of
the major digital rights management systems.  He is currently a research
fellow at Xerox PARC and manager of the Human-Document Interaction Area
in the Information Sciences and Technology Laboratory.
Dennis McNannay, Recently Vice President at InterTrust Technologies,
currently one of the most successful digital rights management
companies, and a recognized expert on digital rights management systems.

Prasad Ram, Previously General Manager of ContentGuard when it was at
Xerox, and now co-founder, with Carol Risher (recently of AAP), of
Savantech, a company developing digital media distribution solutions in
support of digital commerce.
James Neal, Dean of University Libraries & the Sheridan Director, Johns
Hopkins University and nationally known speaker on digital issues and
electronic publishing.

Lloyd Davidson, Northwestern University, Moderator