Copyright in Academia: Challenges and Opportunities

KU Libraries, along with KU Information Services and the Office of the Provost, is pleased to offer a symposium addressing copyright issues throughout academia.

Scheduled for Friday, March 7 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Copyright in Academia: Challenges and Opportunities will feature experts from the academic, publishing and legal fields who will explore and discuss ways to balance the varying and sometimes conflicting interests of authors, researchers, teachers, and publishers in the area of copyright of scholarly information, especially in light of the massive changes caused by shifts to digital publishing, access, and delivery of scholarly work.

Nationally recognized keynote speakers and noted copyright experts from KU will join the discussion, answering your questions, as well as offering a few thought-provoking questions of their own. Breakout sessions in three tracks—Teaching, Research and Publishing, and Policy—give you a multi-faceted view of the challenges academics face in this changing terrain, as well as the opportunities offered us.

Whether you are an author, a researcher, a graduate student, a teacher, a librarian, or play several of those roles, come learn how these changes affect you now and in the future, and how you can respond to them creatively and effectively.

Join us:

Friday, March 7, 2008
9 am to 4 pm – Come for a few sessions or stay for the whole day
Kansas Room, Kansas Union
RSVP by February 28th to latwood@ku.edu or (785) 864-8961. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. The symposium is free, but attendance is limited to 250 participants.

Complete schedule online: http://www.lib.ku.edu/CopyrightSymposium/