The Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice at Howard University School of Law and Google Inc. invite you to "Equalizing Access to Knowledge"

Keynote Address: David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, Google Inc.

Panel Discussion, featuring:

Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law and the Founder and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice at the Howard University School of Law
Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR)
Charles Brown, Esq., Advisor to the President of the National Federation of the Blind

You are invited to this unique policy forum at Howard University School of Law. Join us for breakfast and an engaging discussion on Google's book digitization project and the relationship between social justice and access to information. The event will feature a panel of leaders from the civil rights, law, education, and business communities, and a keynote address from David Drummond, Senior Vice President at Google.

Book Search is Google's ambitious initiative to make the world's books easier to find and access online. Over the last six years, Google has worked with rightsholders as well as renowned libraries to digitize books, and now Google, authors, and publishers have forged an agreement that promises to dramatically expand access to millions of works. Drummond will explain this groundbreaking agreement and its implications for readers, writers, students, scholars, libraries, and the public at large.

When: Wednesday, July 29, 9am – 11am
Breakfast will be served.

The event will be followed by optional, small group sessions led by the Institute, for those who wish to continue discussing intellectual property and its relationship to the economic development of historically disadvantaged groups.  

Where: Howard Law School
President's Suite, Notre Dame Hall (enter through Houston Hall)
2900 Van Ness Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008

 
About the Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
The Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization which examines intellectual property and its relationship to social justice in the United States and in the wider world. Through its programs, IIPSJ Inc., seeks to advance the social policy objectives that underlie intellectual property protection, i.e., the stimulation of creative enterprise and the broad dissemination of creative works and achievements, particularly within communities that have traditionally been underserved and underrepresented in intellectual property ownership, exploitation, and use. For more information, please visit www.iipsj.org.

About Google Book Search and the agreement with authors and publishers:
http://books.google.com/settlement