[PAST EVENT] Mass Digitization of Cultural Heritage: Why Copyright Obstacles Must Be Overcome

April 5, 2016
3:30pm - 5pm
Location
Law School, Room 127
613 S Henry St
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Mass digitizing books from research library collections may well be a fair and noninfringing use under recent appellate court rulings. But to show more than a few small snippets of text may not be. Advances in technology now make it possible to create digital libraries of millions of works and to provide access to those books to millions of people. Economic and technological challenges now seem surmountable, but copyright obstacles loom large. This talk will consider several strategies for overcoming the copyright obstacles and why it is so important to do so.


Pamela Samuelson
Richard M. Sherman ?74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Information Management at UC Berkeley
Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

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