Toward a Copyright Office for the 21st Century

Public Knowledge
March 7, 2011
12-5pm
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/3627

This conference will build off of the ideas put forth in Public Knowledge's recent whitepaper, "A Copyright Office for the 21st Century: Recommendations to the New Register of Copyrights".

In the coming months the Librarian of Congress will appoint the first new Register of Copyrights since 1994. The new Register will be the first appointed in the Internet era, and will have an opportunity to shape the Copyright Office for the 21st Century. Please join us as we discuss how to build a copyright registry that can meet the demands of modern copyright and how the Copyright Office can become a model of open, inclusive, and transparent policymaking.

Agenda

Welcome: Gigi B. Sohn, President, Public Knowledge

Opening Keynote: Maria Pallante, Acting Register of Copyrights

Panel I: Modernizing the Copyright Registration & Recordation Systems

• Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, Copyright Clearance Center
• Leila Boujnane, Co-Founder and CEO, Idee Inc. (TinEye)
• James Cavanaugh, National Director and Treasurer, American Society of Media Photographers
• Jule Sigall, Associate General Counsel – Copyright, Microsoft

Respondent: Maria Pallante, Acting Register of Copyrights

Moderator: Michael Weinberg, Public Knowledge

Keynote: Aneesh Chopra, Federal Technology Officer, Office of Science and Technology Policy (invited)

Panel II: Making the Copyright Office a Model of Openness and Transparency

• Tom Lee, Director, Sunlight Labs
• Jamie Love, Executive Director, Knowledge Ecology International
• Beth Noveck, New York Law School, former Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government
• Christal Sheppard, Minority Counsel, House Judiciary Committee (invited)
• David Whitney, Majority Counsel, House Judiciary Committee (invited)

Respondent: Maria Pallante, Acting Register of Copyrights

Moderator: Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge