Thursday, November 17, 2004, PALINET Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA
Providing content is still the most important element to a publisher’s lifeblood. While the method or medium of providing that content has evolved and is ever evolving, the task of delivering content to readers remains in place. As we address the many ways in which to deliver content, employing a system that provides digital rights management becomes a must have in order to protect our companies, our authors, and our users. In our current world of trying to adopt “open access” or becoming a “green publisher,” publishers need to address the rules around content and how best to deliver that content while still meeting business requirements.
Topics to be Covered:
- Copyright rules and implications
- Intellectual property piracy
- Systems available in the market
- Business requirements
- Rules of use
- How Digital Rights Management can assist in the day-to-day workflow
- Open access and DRM
- Becoming a “Green Publisher” – what does this mean?
- Archiving and use
- The Article Economy
Seminar Managers and Moderators:
- Carol Richman, Director of Licensing at SAGE Publications
- Ed Colleran, Director of Publisher Relations at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
Speakers:
- Becky Albitz, Electronic Resources and Copyright Librarian, Pennsylvania State University
- Craig Van Dyck, Vice President, Operations, Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishing division of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Eric S. Slater, Esq., Manager, Copyright, Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (Washington, DC)
- Keith Kupferschmid, Vice President for Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement, Intellectual Property Counsel, Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA)
Biographies:
Becky Albitz, Electronic Resources and Copyright Librarian, Pennsylvania State University, received her undergraduate degrees in Film and English from the University of Rochester, a Masters in Film from Penn State, and her MLS from The University of Pittsburgh. As a former media librarian at both The University of Iowa and New York University, she has extensive experience working with copyright issues as they pertain to media, and has actively engaged in media-related organizations within ALA. Her publications on media, licensing and copyright have appeared in a variety of venues, includingPortal, The Reference Librarian, Collection Development, and The Acquisitions Librarian. She currently shares a quarterly column covering legislative issues for The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Becky has also given numerous presentations and workshops on copyright, the TEACH Act and licensing issues.
Carol Richman, Director of Licensing at SAGE Publications, has over fifteen years experience in professional and scholarly publishing, and her focus has been on electronic publishing and licensing issues and activities. Richman joined SAGE Publications five years ago as Director of Licensing & Electronic Publishing and has focused on delivering journal and book content via electronic means. Before joining Sage, Richman held several different positions in electronic publishing at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Craig Van Dyck, Vice President, Operations, Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishing division of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is responsible for Production and Manufacturing, and for Finance and Administration, plus a special brief for corporate content management systems. He has been with Wiley since 1996. From 1986-1996, he was with Springer-Verlag New York, as Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, for the last two years. He worked from 1978-86 at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Ablex Publishing. Van Dyck served as Chairman of the AAP’s Enabling Technologies Committee from 1995-1998, and was instrumental in the development of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system; he represents Wiley on the Board of Directors of the International DOI Foundation. He is Chair of the Technical Working Group and of the CrossRef Search committee of CrossRef, the multi-publisher linking service, and is Wiley’s alternate Board member. He is also on the Board of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
Ed Colleran, Director of Publisher Relations at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), serves as the Senior Director of Rightsholder Relations at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world’s premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions. He oversees strategic initiatives focused on CCC’s publisher constituency and manages the development of content licensing solutions and new revenue-generating initiatives for CCC’s participating publishers. Ed also provides the vision for the advancement of CCC’s digital rights management services and is a key contributor on other long-term strategic issues facing the information industry.
Eric S. Slater, Esq., Manager, Copyright, Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (Washington, DC), Manager, Copyright, Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (Washington, DC), received his JD from New York Law School in 1998 and holds a Master of Journalism from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University. While at New York Law School, Eric was Editor-in-Chief of Media Law & Policy and published an article on Internet broadcasting. Before joining the American Chemical Society, Eric worked in radio for approximately 20 years, including as General Manager of a noncommercial/public station in New Jersey. He has taught communications and copyright-related coursework on the college level, most recently as a faculty member of the University of Virginia’s Publishing & Communications Institute in Falls Church, VA. He is a frequent speaker and writer on copyright topics.
Keith Kupferschmid, Vice President for Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement, Intellectual Property Counsel, Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), is responsible for working directly with SIIA’s Intellectual Property Committee to establish SIIA positions and for moving the SIIA agenda on issues relating to intellectual property. He also supervises the Association’s Anti-Piracy programs. Before joining SIIA, Kupferschmid was an attorney with the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, where he advised clients on all matters relating to copyright and copyright-related protection, including client counseling, opinion drafting, license negotiations, and litigation. Before that, Kupferschmid was an intellectual property attorney at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), where he was responsible for international and legislative patent and copyright issues. During his time at the PTO, Kupferschmid worked extensively on bilateral and multilateral intellectual property issues, was responsible for formulating and advocating the Administration’s policy relating to intellectual property and the Internet and represented the U.S. Government as a lead negotiator at the Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights Questions that adopted the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonogram Treaties in December 1996. Kupferschmid has also served on special assignments at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, where he was the Director of Intellectual Property, and the U.S. Copyright Office, where he was a Policy Planning Advisor.
