Business and Society
The Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT)
The Sagy Center for Internet Research
University of Haifa
in collaboration with
The National Library of Israel
Wednesday, May 18, 2011: The National Library, Jerusalem
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:00 Greetings and Introduction
10:00-12:00 What is a Book in the Digital Age? The Rise of eBooks and Digital Libraries
Chair: Prof. Shulamit Almog, University of Haifa Faculty of Law
Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli, Director, Sagy Center for Internet Research, University of Haifa
Mr. Oliver Metzger, Senior Product Counsel, Google Inc.
Google Books and eBooks
Mr. Oren Weinberg, Director, The National Library of Israel
Mr. Aly Conteh, Digitisation Programme Manager at the British Library and a member of the Executive Board of the IMPACT project
12:00-12:15 Coffee Break
12:15-13:15 Keynote – Paul N. Courant, University of Michigan Librarian and Dean of Libraries
Radical Change in Conservative Institutions: Desirable and Undesirable futures for the Academy and its Libraries
13:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Institutional Changes: Law and Business of Digital Books
Chair: Vera Franz, Senior Program Manager, Open Society Foundations
Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren, Haifa Center for Law and Technology, University of Haifa Faculty of Law
Tailoring Rights to New Intermediaries
Dr. Orit Fishman Afori, span style=”color: black;”>The College of Management Academic Studies Law School
E-Libraries and Restrictive Contracts
Dr. Gal Oestreicher-Singer, Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel-Aviv University
Are Digital Rights Valuable? Theory and Evidence from eBook Pricing
Prof. Ethan Katsh, Director, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts
eBooks and New Opportunities for Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Mr. Yaron Sadan, The Chairman of the Israeli Publishers’ Association and Managing Director Am Oved Publishers Ltd.
Digital Books and the Publishing Industryo:p>
Thursday May 19, 2011: Haifa University
9:00-9:30 & Registration
9:30-11:30 Impediments to Digital Access
CChair: Prof. Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School
Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger, University of Haifa Faculty of Law
From Tablet to Tablet, From Scroll to Scroll: Books Before and After the Codex
Prof. Kenneth Crews, Director, Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia University Libraries
International Copyright and Multinational Impediments
Dr. Till Kreutzer,, Hans-Bredow Institute
Privatization of the Balance in Copyright in the Digital Age
Dr. Guy Pessach, Hebrew University Faculty of Lawi>
The Political Economy of Social Remembering – The Role of Law and Public Institutions
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-14:00 Facilitating Access to Digital Content: Legal and Business Strategies
CChair: Adv. Tony Greenman, Greenman Law Offices
Prof. Lucie Guibault, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
Cross-Border Dissemination of Mass-Digitized Library Collections?
Prof. Michael Carroll, American University Faculty of Law
Taking the Long View on eBook Licensing
Mr. Simon Morrison, Copyright Communications and Policy Manager at Google, London
Prof. Michael Geist, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
Playing Whack-A-Mole?: A Cautionary Canadian Tale on a NNational Digitization Strategy
14:00-15:00 Lunch Break
15:00-17:00 How to Secure Competition and Freedom in eBooks?
CChair: Prof. Ben Depoorter, U.C. Hastings College of Law
Dr. Michal Agmon-Gonnen, District Court of Tel-Aviv
Books, Music, Ads and TM’s: IP Rights or Competition in Business Models
Mr. Asaf Tzadok, IBM Haifa Research & Development Lab
Digital Crowdsourcing
Prof. James Grimmelmann, Institute for Information Law and Policy, New York Law School
Google Books and Institutional Choice
Dr. Dina Kallay, Counsel for Intellectual Property & International Antitrust, Federal Trade Commission
UU.S. and EC Antitrust Perspectives on the Google Book Search Settlement
17:00-18:00 Roundtable: TThe Google Books Settlement and its Aftermath
Reception
