Section of Intellectual Property Law:
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Committee Event
American Bar
Association
Section of
Intellectual Property Law
Committee on University
Intellectual Property Law
PUBLIC ACCESS TO FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH:
COPYRIGHT AND OTHER ISSUES
A Brown Bag Session
April 9, 2012
Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Does
mandating free online access to papers resulting from federally funded research
violate the Copyright Act or treaty obligations? A distinguished pair of panelists will
discuss this question, in the context of the broader policy issues raised by
such open access mandates. They will
consider the pending Federal Research Public Access Act, as well as the National
Institutes of Health Public Access Policy.
The
panelists will be Mark Seeley, Senior
Vice President and General Counsel of Elsevier, and Peter Suber, Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society. The discussion will be
moderated by Jonathan Hulbert, University Attorney at Harvard and Vice-Chair of
the Committee on University Intellectual Property Law.
The event will be free to the public, as well as members of the Committee. Lunch will be served.
Remote Access Instructions
A live webcast of the event will be hosted at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2012/04/publicaccesstoresearch for interested parties who cannot attend the event in person.
Alternatively, participants can access an audio
stream of the event at the following conference call coordinates:
Toll
Free: 1-877-817-1622
International:
1-312-895-5770
Passcode:
822 159
Time permitting, there will be a question and answer session at the end of the presentation. Remote participants are encouraged to submit questions for the speakers by emailing publicresearchaccess@gmail.com.
Additional Background
For more
background on the topic, please see: http://apps.americanbar.org/dch/comadd.cfm?com=PT040200&pg=3.
