Video Recording: Panel Discussion at Wikimedia Foundation: “Copyright in the Era of Mass Digitization”
Last night (July 28, 2015) a panel discussion organized by the Wikimedia Foundation and titled, “Copyright in the Era of Mass Digitization” took place at Wikimedia HQ in San Francisco.
The event was also streamed live as a Google Hangout and a recording is now available on YouTube and embedded below. It runs about 90 minutes.
Discussion Focus (via WikiEvent Page):
- What are the legal challenges associated with mass digitization?
- How have stakeholders, including tech corporations, Open Internet activists, publishers, libraries, artists, and authors, responded to those challenges?
- What policy changes may lie ahead?
Panelists
Pamela Samuelson
Professor
UC Berkeley School of Law
Melvin Gibbs
President
Content Creators Coalition
Yana Welinder
Legal Director
Wikimedia Foundation
Joseph Gratz
Partner
Durie Tangri
Lila Bailey
Founding Partner
Law Office of Lila Bailey
Filed under: Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Video Recordings
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.