Symposium "Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age - Copyright as a means to foster creativity and access - " Presentation files and papers
Symposium "Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age - Copyright as a means to foster creativity and access - " was held on December 1 and 2, 2010. Presentation files and papers of the symposium are available
Wednesday 1st December
- Keynote 1: National year of reading and current state of publishing and libraries [PDF: 300KB]
- Makoto Nagao (NDL)
- 1. INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORKS FOR THE PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
- An overview [PDF: 309KB] (Geidy Lung, WIPO)
- Response 1 [PDF: 2.60MB] (Caroline Morgan, Chair IFRRO Legal Issues Forum, General Manager CAL, Australia)
- Response 2 [PDF: 141KB] (Jonathan Band, Policy Bandwidth, United States)
- 2. THE IMPORTANCE OF COPYRIGHT TO SOCIETY
- The importance of the copyright sector to the economy [PDF: 1.26MB] (Geidy Lung, WIPO)
- The importance of copyright to creativity [PDF: 1.03MB] (Bruce Funkhouser, IFRRO VP, Executive VP CCC, United States)
- Fair use in the economy [PDF: 1.12MB] (Matt Schruers, Computer and Communications Industry Association)
- 3. PROVIDING ACCESS TO COPYRIGHT WORKS
- Restoring the Balance: Increasing Users' Rights via Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives [PDF: 484KB] (Winston Tabb, IFLA)
- Access to copyright works through copyright licensing [PDF: 286KB] (Magdalena Vinent, IFRRO)
- Trends in reading and reading facilities [PDF: 249KB] (Franziska Eberhard IFRRO VP, Senior VP ProLitteris, Switzerland)
- Trends in business model development in publishing [PDF: 46KB] (Herman P. Spruijt, IPA)
Thursday 2nd December
- KEYNOTE 2: Internationalization of Literature
- Levy Hideo, Author
- 4. LITERACY, PUBLISHING, LIBRARIES AND READING
- National writing and publishing as a means to foster a reading culture and the importance of local publishing [PDF: 30KB] (Herman P. Spruijt, IPA)
- We will continue what we have been doing [PDF: 70KB](Kyoko Matsuoka, Director, Tokyo Children's Library)
- The role of libraries in promoting reading [PDF: 41KB](Ellen Tise, IFLA)
- 5. DIGITISATION
- Experience and practice of digitization in Japan [PDF: 3.26MB] (Hiroyuki Taya, Director General, Administrative Department, NDL)
- Shaping our Future: digitization partnerships across libraries, archives, museums [PDF: 1.70MB] (Ingrid Parent, IFLA)
- Reading Europe: European culture through the book [PDF: 2.02MB] (Aubéry Escande, Europeana)
- Digitising making available cultural heritage : challenges of orphan & out-of-print works [PDF: 523KB] (Olav Stokkmo, CEO, IFRRO)
- 6. ACCESS FOR USERS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS/PRINT DISABILITIES
- Harmonization of copyrights and reading rights of persons with print disabilities based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [PDF: 1.34MB] (Hiroshi Kawamura, DAISY consortium)
- Working for the VIP and persons with print disabilities at WIPO [PDF: 412KB] (Geidy Lung, WIPO)
- Publishers and Print Disabled [PDF: 28KB] (Jens Bammel, Secretary General, IPA)
- RROs and access to content by persons with reading impairment [PDF: 156KB] (Olav Stokkmo, IFRRO)