The Association of American Publishers (AAP), US, has announced that the Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division’s 2010 Annual Conference will be held February 3-5, 2010 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. The best conference rates for ‘The New Reality: Disruption, Innovation, Relevance’ event are available for those registering before December 31, 2009. According to AAP, conference registration fee for 2010 is the lowest in five years.
The pre-conference seminar ‘The Culture of Free: Publishing in an Era of Changing Expectations,’ will discuss a variety of issues. These include the culture of free-from-copyright vs. fair use; publishers and authors rights vs. consumer rights; and the shifting paradigm of business models of content distribution. The seminar will present speakers and panels from both inside and outside the industry to explore the general question of ‘how do we compete with free’.
The annual conference will begin with a plenary session on ‘Policy and Market Challenges – Critical Issues for 21st Century Publishers’. This will bring together a number of policy experts from the publishing industry to outline the major issues facing content owners today and discuss the business implications of these proposals, should they become law.
A highlight of the conference will be an Oxford-style debate of the proposition: ‘Current US Copyright Law Excessively Restrains the Development of Intellectual Property.’ The audience will be polled in real time (via mobile texting) in advance and upon completion to determine which team has prevailed. Speakers will include Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, William S. Strong, Head of intellectual property practice at Kotin, Crabtree & Strong, LLP in Boston and Richard Baraniuk, Victor E. Cameron Professor of Engineering, Rice University.
Other sessions include: Social Marketing 101; What Riches to be Gained from Enriching Content?; Retail Now Lead the Digital Way; Publishing Model Innovation: The Author Pays Model; and Social Media and Scientific Research.
The line-up of sessions and speakers is available at http://www.pspcentral.org/events2/PSP2010AnnualConferenceProgram.cfm
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