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DCMA & DIGITAL COPYRIGHT: OVERVIEW
Friday, February 4, 2000
Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
Kenneth Crews
Kenneth Crews is an Associate Professor in the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and in the IU School of Library and Information Science. He is also the Associate Dean of the Faculties for Copyright Management, in that capacity, he directs Indiana University's Copyright Management Center based at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He earned his undergraduate degree in history from Northwestern University and received his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He practiced general business and corporate law in Los Angeles from 1980 to 1990, primarily for the entertainment industry. During those years, Crews returned to graduate school and he earned his M.L.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA's School of Library and Information Science.
His principal research interest has been the relationship of copyright law to the needs of higher education. His book, Copyright, Fair Use, and the Challenge for Universities: Promoting the Progress of Higher Education, was published by The University of Chicago Press in October 1993, and it reevaluates understandings of copyright in the context of teaching and research at the university. Professor Crews is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and at colleges and universities across the country, whenever copyright and fair use are critical issues.
Frank Macomber
Frank Macomber is Emeritus Professor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University and co-author of a music history textbook, "Musical Arts and Styles." He serves as an auditor for the New York State Council on the Arts. For the past several years he has worked to develop computer software for the teaching of music and art history courses, one of which is currently in operation in the Multimedia Center of the Syracuse University Library.
Ken Pennington
Ken Pennington received his Ph.D. in Medieval History from Cornell University in 1972. In 1971 he moved from Ithaca and began teaching at Syracuse University. His areas of interest are ancient, medieval, and early modern legal history, the history of constitutional thought, political theory, church history, history of universities, and paleography. He directs a school in Sicily each October at a place called Erice where a faculty and a student body from Europe and North America look at the history of law in a magical setting on a mountaintop next to the Mediterranean. Ken is the author or editor of twelve books and over seventy articles. Over the past four years, he has used the web as a tool to teach history in the classroom and is now convinced that just as pasta should be a part of every meal the web should be in every classroom.
Jeffrey Rubin
Jeffrey Rubin is president of Internet Consulting Services, a company he founded in 1995. He has been designing web sites since the Internet explosed onto the scene five years ago and is passionate about teaching both in the classroom and the corporate board room. His company has designed web sites and commercial internet application for major firms and organizations including Lucent Technologies, Oneida LTD., Ericsson, National Geographic, and IEEE. Rubin is a visiting instructor at Syracuse University School of Information Studies.
Marjorie Hodges Shaw
Marjorie Hodges Shaw is the Policy Advisor to the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell University and Co-Directs the Cornell Computer Policy and Law Program. She a frequent speaker on the ethical and legal aspects of computer policies. A contributing editor for the national quarterly Synthesis: Law and Policy in Higher Education, Ms. Hodges Shaw is recognized as a national authority in the field of computer policy and law.
Stuart Thorson
Stuart Thorson is Director of the Global Affairs Institute, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, and Director of Information Technology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He holds a courtesy appointment in Computer and Information Science at Syracuse University. Thorson also directs the Governance in the Information Age Project which looks at uses of information technology in support of democratic governance and has advised a number of domestic and international universities, corporations and governmental units on uses of technology to support distance collaborations.
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