Commonwealth Club Panel: Should Books Be Free Online?

Sun Jan 22 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Make a reservation for this Commonwealth Club panel... (via the one and only ass-kicking LawGeek)

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY | THURSDAY JANUARY 26
* DAVID DRUMMOND, Vice President and General Counsel, Google
* BREWSTER KAHLE, Digital Librarian, Internet Archive
* BILL PETROCELLI, Co-owner, Book Passage
* PAMELA SAMUELSON, Professor, Boalt School of Law, UC Berkeley; Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
* DAVID HENRY STERRY, Author, Putting Your Passion into Print
* MOIRA GUNN, Host, "Tech Nation," Public Radio - Moderator

SHOULD BOOKS BE FREE ONLINE? GOOGLE'S PLAN STIRS UP CONTROVERSY

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could access every book from five world-class libraries for free online? Absolutely not, according to the writers and publishers who sued Google Print (since renamed Google Book Search) over plans to do just that. With accusations of copyright infringement butting up against advocates for free public dissemination of information, the battle lines have been drawn. Grab a ringside seat as our panel of experts clarifies the thorny issues in this a debate that will impact readers around the world.