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EVENT DETAIL
"GoogleNet" and Fair Use: How the "Open Web" May (or may not) Threaten the Rights or Authors, Publishers, and Copyright Holders
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:30 – 8 pm
The Bar Association Presents a Roundtable discussion of the legal and practical questions raised by two recent lawsuits filed against Google, in response to its plans to scan copyrighted works online, in order to make contents searchable by keyword. The suits, filed separately by the Author’s Guild and several writers, and by several major publishers, contend that doing so absent explicit consent is a plain copyright violation. But Google contends that such scanning, done in conjunction with major libraries, is simply its own effort to create a wholly legal digital card catalog.
The panelists will discuss how copyright law should treat such content-scanning programs, the extent to which Google (or any other search engine) can or should truly be considered a “digital library,” what harm or unfairness such programs pose for authors and publishers, and, more broadly, who has, or should have, the right to control information contained in books.
Moderator:
JAY HIMES
Chief, Antitrust Bureau, Office of New York Attorney General
Introduction:
KENNETH D. DREIFACH
Chief, Internet Bureau, Office of New York Attorney General
Speakers:
JON FINE
VP, Associate General Counsel, Random House
SUSAN CRAWFORD
Professor, Cardozo Law School
PAUL AIKEN
Executive Director, Authors’ Guild
CAMERON STRACHER
Professor, New York Law School; Novelist and Author, “Double Billing: A Young Lawyer’s Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair”
Sponsored by:
Committee on Information Technology Law, Kenneth D. Dreifach, Chair; Committee on Copyright & Literary Property, Robert W. Clarida, Chair
Members of the Association, their guests and all other interested persons are invited to attend. No fee or registration is required
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