2017 Charleston Library Conference

Once again, the Long Arm of the Law session lights the Charleston Conference stage!  In this year's session, returning favorite attorney Bill Hannay (Schiff Hardin LLP) will continue to inform the audience about the latest court cases and rulings that impact us in libraries and the information industry.  For example, did you know that in September 2016 the New Delhi high court dismissed suits by three international publishers against the sale of photocopied books and pages in Delhi University? And that in 2017, the publishers dropped the suit?  Could the case that Hannay reported last year have impact more broadly?
If we're fortunate, Hannay will once again write and sing a special song for the session.
New to Charleston (but not to international librarianship) is Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  She teaches contracts, international intellectual property (IP), copyright, and other courses on law and development.  As one of the foremost authorities on international intellectual property law, she has advised governments in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the UN.  She was recognized by Managing IP as one of the world's 50 influential leaders in the field.  Her recent book, Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.
As always, there are many new legal developments that will intrigue the Charleston audience.  Perhaps we will hear about the suit that Louisiana State University brought against Elsevier?  Or the European Union hitting Google with $2.7 billion of fines for breaking anti-trust law?  Or how about Germany's new law under which Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies could face huge fines for failing to remove hate speech?  And did you know that Facebook beat a Privacy lawsuit in the US, over user tracking?
There will be ample time for audience Q&A in this exciting new session.