Talk on the Google Booksearch Settlement: April 14th @ UNC Chapel Hill

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3/19/2009 - 1:44pm
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The legal settlement between authors and book publishers and Googleregarding the company's indexing and book scanning project will be thefocus of the third annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture inInformation and Library Science on Tuesday, April 14, 2009.

PamelaSamuelson, the Richard M. Sherman ’74 Distinguished Professor of Lawand Information at the University of California at Berkeley anddirector of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology will present "Reflections on the Google Booksearch Settlement" in the Auditorium of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus at 3 p.m. A reception will follow.

The lecture is hosted by the School of Information and Library Science at UNC at Chapel Hill. The event is free and open to the public, however seating is limited. Please send your RSVP via e-mail to mpenny@email.unc.edu or call 919.962.8366.

The OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science is funded through a special endowment from the OCLC Online Computer Library Centerto honor Dr. Frederick G. Kilgour. The fund supports an annual lecturebringing together scholars and leaders from around the world to shareinnovative ideas and cutting-edge research.

 

About Pamela Samuelson

Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman ’74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California at Berkeley and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw and informationprivacy.  She has written and spoken extensively about the challengesthat new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes,especially for intellectual property law.  She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Contributing Editor of Communications of the ACM, a past Fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Amsterdam.  She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as a member of the Advisory Boards for the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge.

A1971 graduate of the University of Hawaii and a 1976 graduate of YaleLaw School, Samuelson practiced law as a litigation associate with theNew York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning toacademic pursuits.  From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of thefaculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which shevisited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools.  She has been amember of the Berkeley faculty since 1996 and was a Visiting Professorat Harvard Law School during the fall term 2007.

 

Driving and Parking

TheFrank Porter Graham Student Union is located on the corner of South andRaleigh Roads. It's located on the central campus of the UNC at ChapelHill.

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    • Morehead Lot (At the Planetarium on Franklin St.)
    • Rosemary Parking Deck (Behind the Post Office at Franklin and Henderson Streets)
    • Chapel Hill city lots.
    • Highway 54 Visitor Lot (near the intersection of Country Club St. and South St.)
    • Ramshead Parking Deck (at the G.W. Hill Alumni Center)
    • Friday Center Park-and-Ride Lot (take the bus to and from campus)
  • For those who need handicap parking or access, please contact the SILS office at 919.962.8366.