ADA Newsletter: Last Chance to Book Forum Tickets
Last Chance to get tickets to the Australian Digital Alliance Forum
Come join us next Friday (13 February) at the National Library Canberra and catch up with all the news of copyright developments and considerations of what’s to come. You’re running out of time to get tickets, so book now through trybooking.
(The forum is fully catered, please indicate dietary requirements when booking.)
Program: ADA Copyright Forum
13 February 2015 at the National Library of Australia Canberra
9:00 Welcome
9:10 ‘FAIR: Libraries campaigning for copyright reform’
Sue McKerracher: Executive Director Australian Library and Information Association
9:30 Keynote Address: ‘An information revolution for the blind’
Maryanne Diamond AO: General Manager advocacy and engagement at Vision Australia, immediate past- President World Blind Union
10:00 ‘Making use of digital archives: HathiTrust, digitisation and accessible repositories’
Dr Nicolas Suzor: Senior Law Lecturer QUT and Creative Commons Australia Policy Lead
10:15 ‘Archiving democracy: the Australian Government Archive’
Alison Dellitt: Director Australian Collections Management & Paul Koerbin: Manager Web Archiving NLA
10:30 Morning Tea
11:00 The ANZAC tradition: 100 years on from WWI
Robyn Van Dyk: Head Research Centre, Australian War Memorial
Elise Edmonds: Curator WWI State Library of NSW
11:30 ‘International trends and innovations’
Professor Jill McKeough: Professor UTS Law School, former Commissioner for ALRC copyright review
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Keynote Address: ‘Knowledge Unlatched: New frontiers in open access’
Dr Lucy Montgomery: Deputy Director Knowledge Unlatched & Principal Research Fellow Curtin University
13:30 ‘Inbuilt licensing: Creative Commons and government records’
Baden Appleyard: National Program Director AusGOAL
13:45 ‘School’s open: Developments in open educational resources’
Jessica Smith: National Copyright Officer, National Copyright Unit, COAG Education Council
14:00 ‘Reboot: open licensing in Australia’
14:15 Vox Pops: understanding copyright
Alexander Vulkanovski: EFA
14:30 Afternoon tea
15:00 Safe harbours
Associate Professor Kimberlee Weatherall, Sydney University Law School
15:15 Tech panel: effective governance
Damian Kassaabgi (Google); Shoshana Shields (eBay); Rob Gregory (Maddocks/Internet Society);
Chair Laurie Patton (Internet Society of Australia),
16:00 Charlotte Harper (Founder Editia Digital Publishing), Scott Bridges (Award winning author and half of @Rudd2000), Melinda Smith (2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winning poet) Moderator: Nikki Anderson (Program Manager, Australian Writer’s Week Beijing)
17:00 Close
If you cannot be at the Forum, Internet NZ has saved the day, sponsoring a live stream of the program.
We are also incredibly grateful to our other sponsors, Maddocks, Internet Society of Australia and the National Library of Australia.
