ASLIB EVENT - COPYRIGHT: LIFE AFTER THE GOWERS REVIEW

ASLIB MIDLANDS

COPYRIGHT: LIFE AFTER THE GOWERS REVIEW

THURSDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2008 1.30 PM TO 4.30 PM

BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL LIBRARY
The Gowers review was the most far-reaching review of copyright since the current Act was passed twenty years ago - before the digital revolution. It attempted to address the issues raised by the changes in how we can create, store, copy and publish information. The Government has accepted the report and the process of implementing it is now under way. The first major exercise is the review on copyright exceptions, which is due to result in changes to the law next year.

These changes could affect us all in our professional lives. This half-day workshop is an ideal opportunity to find out in advance what the impact is likely to be and to plan for it. Find out -

What the issues are that Gowers addressed and what's now proposed
How it will affect users
How it will affect teaching and research
How it will affect libraries
The players in the game
What will happen next

The workshop will conclude with a question and answer session where participants can ask questions and share knowledge and information.

Workshop leader: Mike Heaney

Mike is Executive Secretary of Oxford University Library Services and deals with a wide range of issues including the quasi-legal aspects of data protection, freedom of information and copyright. He is CILIP's academic libraries representative on the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA), which brings together the UK's major professional organisations and experts representing librarians and archivists to lobby in the UK and Europe about copyright and related rights. In that capacity he has helped to shape LACA's submission to the Gowers review, and to the current consultation on copyright exceptions.

Cost: £35 Aslib members ; £45 non-members.

We have 8 free places for Aslib members willing to serve on the Branch committee for 1 year. See our website www.aslibmidlands.org.uk for details.







If you would like to attend the meeting please complete and return the slip below by Thursday 18 September to Julia Mason, Library Manager, Library and Information Resource Centre, Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 0RH. email: jmason@fireservicecollege.ac.uk


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