The session will take place on September 2, 2009 at 1pm EST. Registration for and access to the event is free.
The speakers:
+ Jonathan Band
Counsel
Library Copyright Alliance
Jonathan Band helps shape the laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients with respect to the drafting of the DMCA, database protection legislation, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, and other federal and state statutes. He complements this legislative advocacy by filing amicus briefs in significant cases related to these provisions. An adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, Band has written extensively on intellectual property and the Internet. Band received a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School. Prior to establishing his own law firm in May 2005, he worked at the Washington, D.C., office of Morrison & Foerster LLP for 20 years, including 13 years as a partner.
+ Dan Clancy
Engineering Director
Google Book Search
Daniel J. Clancy is the engineering director for the Google Book Search Project, which works to bring off-line book content online and make it searchable to allow discovery of books. Google is working with both publishers and libraries as part of this project. Prior to coming to Google in January 2005, Clancy was the director of the Exploration Technologies Directorate at NASA Ames Research Center. Clancy received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in artificial intelligence. While in school, he also worked at Trilogy Corporation, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Xerox Webster Research center. He received a BA from Duke University in 1985 in computer science and theatre.
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