About the Conference: Abstract, Agenda & Proceedings

Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Academy

Equity of access to information in any medium is essential to teaching, learning and scholarship. The fair use doctrine allows limited use of copyrighted work for classroom copying, library reserves, and individual research. As the nature and content of scholarly communication are becoming increasingly electronic, how do we apply the fair use principle to the digital content? What does copyright mean to authors and faculty members who have published? What do copyright and the fair use doctrine mean to information users, students, and faculty who use copyrighted work in their teaching?

To help increase the awareness of faculty, staff, and students about copyright issues and the use of open access to take control of their intellectual property, the Office of the Provost along with the Sojourner Truth Library and the Teaching and Learning Center are sponsoring this conference, Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Academy, to be held in the Lecture Center, Room 100, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM on October 24, 2008.

Agenda

 

Time

Activity
8:45 – 9:00 Pre-conference coffee
9:00 – 9:15

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Chui-chun Lee, Director, Sojourner Truth Library
View Dr. Lee’s remarks here.
9:15 – 10:30

Speaker: Kenneth D. Crews

Director, Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia University

Dr. Crews describes the focus of his talk in this way:

“Copyright is increasingly important to our teaching, research, and service at the university.  Copyright protects nearly all of our new works, and it can regulate the way we use other materials for our innovative scholarship.  Who owns the copyright?  What is fair use?  Am I going to jail???  These are some of the questions we will be addressing together as we get the big picture of how copyright works, and how you can make it work to your advantage.  From this foundation of copyright, you will be able to better manage your own creative works, make decisions about fair use, and enter into smarter agreements with publishers.  Bring your questions and your curiosity about copyright.”

 

View a PDF of the Power Point slides from Dr. Crews’ talk here.

View a video of Dr, Crews’ talk here.
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00

Speaker: Michael W. Carroll

Professor of Law, Villanova University;
Visiting Professor of Law, American University, Washington School Of Law

Professor Carroll describes the focus of his talk in this way:

“Throughout the world, the movement to provide open access to scholarly research over the Internet has gained significant momentum in the past year. Professor Carroll will provide an overview of open access successes and challenges, and describe specific measures that faculty authors can take to manage copyright in their work and to provide open access to their work.”

 

View a PDF of the Power Point slides from Prof. Carroll’s talk here.

View a video of Prof. Carroll’s talk here.
12:00

Intellectual Property & Copyright Issues: Applications to SUNY New Paltz

Panel Discussion:

Carey Hatch (Assistant Provost, SUNY Office of Library & Information Services)
Shay A. Humphrey, Esq. (Intellectual Property Attorney; Rider, Weiner & Frankel, P.C.)
Bruce Mather (School of Business, SUNY New Paltz)
Robert Wagner (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art)

View a video of the discussion here.

Conference Planning Committee

 

Richard Kelder, Co-chair (Co-director, Center for Teaching & Learning)
Chui-chun Lee, Co-chair (Director, Sojourner Truth Library)
Stephan J. Macaluso (Library)
Bruce Mather (Business)
Jonathan Raskin (Psychology)
James Shiffer (Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)
Linda Smith (Co-director, Center for Teaching & Learning; Academic Computing)
Edward Springer (Library)