BroadbandBreakfast.com Launches New
Intellectual Property Breakfast Club With Free Event on Google Book
Search and E-Book
Licensing
WASHINGTON/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The broadband and
intellectual property news service BroadbandBreakfast.com is offering
free tickets to the first event in
its Intellectual Property Breakfast Club series, "The Google Book
Search Case and E-Book Licensing."
The event is on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at Clyde's of Gallery Place,
707 7th St. NW, Washington, DC 20001, from 8 a.m. to 10
a.m. American and Continental breakfasts are included. The program
begins shortly after 8:30 a.m.
FREE Registration is available at http://ipbreakfast.eventbrite.com/.
Sponsored by Intel Corporation and Time Warner Cable, the new series
will probe a diverse set of topics, including e-book
licensing; increasing controversies over retransmission consent; and
international progress against counterfeiting.
Speakers at the May 11 event include Jonathan Band, Counsel, Library
Copyright Alliance; Michael Capobianco, Vice President,
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America; and Sherwin Siy,
Deputy Legal Director, Public Knowledge.
The events will be moderated by Sarah Lai Stirland, Assistant
Managing Editor, BroadbandBreakfast.com. Lai Stirland has covered
business, finance and legal affairs, telecommunications and tech
policy for 15 years from New York, Washington and San Francisco,
and has written extensively about intellectual property over the
years.
"Sorting out the question of how we distribute and manage our
creative work in the digital world is crucial to the economic
health of an increasingly idea-driven economy," Lai Stirland said.
The Intellectual Property Breakfast Club's second event - on June 8 -
will focus on new battles over retransmission battles
and video licensing.
The series complements BroadbandBreakfast.com's highly popular
"Broadband Breakfast Club," which will continue to meet on
the Third Tuesday of each month.
The next Broadband Breakfast Club will be held at the same time and
venue on Tuesday, May 18, 2010.
Keynoting the May 18 Broadband Breakfast Club event will be Pamela
Miller, Director General, Telecommunications Policy Branch,
Industry Canada, on "International Reactions to the U.S. National
Broadband Plan."
Panelists for the May 18 event include Blair Levin, former director
of the U.S. National Broadband Plan; Young K. Noh, Minister-Counselor,
Korean Embassy; and Robin Twyman, First Secretary for Trade and
Business Affairs, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Register at http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com/.
Contact:
Sylvia Syracuse
Director of Marketing and Events
BroadbandBreakfast.com
Sylvia@broadbandcensus.com
646-262-4630
Source: BroadbandBreakfast.com
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