The Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), US, has announced that registrations for the PSP 2010 Annual Conference, scheduled for February 3-5, 2010, in Washington, DC, will close December 31, 2009. According to AAP, conference registration fee for 2010 is the lowest in five years.
The highlight of the conference will be an Oxford-style debate of the proposition: ‘Current US Copyright Law Excessively Restrains the Development of Intellectual Property.’ 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.
Copyright protection is the cornerstone of the publishing industry. The incentives for the participants in the publishing value chain—authors, publishers, distributors—are predicated on the opportunity to control and monetise content based on ideas. In the internet age, this protection has come under attack like never before, with mass-scale, networked, digital technology enabling systematic violations of copyright. Publishing is thus under siege and must be protected by adapting copyright to function effectively in the contemporary environment, according to AAP. These ideas will be debated, Oxford-style, with two sides of 3 debaters each for and a moderator. The audience will be polled in real time (via mobile texting) in advance and upon completion to determine which team has prevailed.
A pre-conference seminar ‘The Culture of Free: Publishing in an Era of Changing Expectations,’ will discuss 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. 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; Social Media and Scientific Research; and How Technology Is Influencing Traditional Publishing. In addition, a Services Report session will also be held. A panel of industry experts will discuss the innovative solutions they are currently offering their publisher clients as well as give a sneak peek into what they plan to offer in the near term and an idea of what the next cutting edge offerings might look like.
The line-up of sessions and speakers is available at
http://www.pspcentral.org/events2/PSP2010AnnualConferenceProgram.cfm
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