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2005 SSP 27th Annual Meeting

Concurrent 4B – The Year Is 2015. What Will Intellectual Property Look Like?

The advent of electronic information presented substantial opportunities and challenges for creators and consumers of intellectual property. The method by which information is created, delivered, searched, and consumed in a digital environment changes minute by minute, and issues around protecting this content while making it easily available continue to challenge everyone. DRM, open access, peer to peer are just a few of the issues we face in today’s electronic environment. Now fast forward 10 years What will the intellectual property hot topics be in 2015? Will the way people produce and consume content have changed radically, or will things have slowed down, as they did during the days of paper-only information. How about that concept we debate with such urgency in 2005 – should information be free for research purposes and to advance creativity? Three distinguished leaders from today’s content marketplace will share their thoughts about what the future holds. They will be looking to you, the audience, to beam yourselves to 2015 and share your own thoughts on what the future holds!

Speakers

Ed Keating
Edward Colleran
Edward Colleran serves as the Senior Director of the International Division at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world’s premier provider of copyright licensing solutions. He oversees strategic initiatives focused on CCC’s international activitiesspecifically, providing rightsholders around the world with new content licensing solutions and revenue-generating initiatives based on CCCs products and services. Edward also provides the vision for the advancement of CCC’s rights management services and is a key contributor on other long-term strategic issues facing the information industry.

An industry veteran, Edward is a member of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) board of directors and also serves on the NA Steering and Copyright committees of ALPSP. Edward is also a past member of the board of the Society for Scholarly Publishers (SSP). He is a featured speaker and editorial contributor on issues such as navigating copyright requirements and the challenges and opportunities of managing content in a digital environment. A regular speaker at industry events, Edward has recently presented at the annual conferences of SSP, ALPSP and SIIA as well as London Online and the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Stephen Abram
Stephen Abram, MLS, is President elect of SLA and the past-President of the Canadian Library Association. He is Vice President of Innovation for SirsiDynix and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute. He was Publisher of Electronic Information at Thomson after managing several libraries. Stephen was listed by Library Journal as one of the top 50
people influencing the future of libraries. He has received numerous honours and speaks regularly internationally. His columns appear in Information Outlook and Multimedia and Internet @ Schools, OneSource, Feliciter, Access, as well writing for Library Journal. He is the author of ALA Editions’ Out Front with Stephen Abram.
Michael Carroll