Topic: Commentary on two major court rulings regarding copyrights - the SCOTUS decision on Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons and the New York Federal District Court decision on Capitol Records v. ReDigi - including their impact on consumers, publishers, artists, authors, retailers and libraries. Expert: Laura Quilter, copyright attorney and Copyright and Information Policy Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst - www.library.umass.edu/laura-quilter Available: Via phone or email; also available via satellite for TV segments from on-campus studio in Amherst, Mass.
----------------------------- Laura Quilter, copyright attorney and Copyright and Information Policy Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is available for interview to discuss the potential impact of recent rulings in important copyright cases Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons and Capitol Records v. ReDigi.
Quilter can comment on:
-- How the Supreme Court ruling in favor of textbook reseller Supap Kirtsaeng affects libraries and online resellers of textbooks that are becoming more and more expensive for students every year-- Whether publishers should worry that the Kirtsaeng decision could cause the collapse of their domestic textbook industry-- What the ruling against ReDigi by the New York Federal District Court means for consumers, digital media, and licensing-- The possibility that the ReDigi case could go to Federal Appellate Court or even all the way to the Supreme Court, and what a possible overturn of the case could mean for the future of digital media and ebooks
More information about Laura Quilter can be found at http://works.bepress.com/laura_quilter.
ABOUT LAURA QUILTER
Laura Quilter is copyright attorney and the Copyright and Information Policy Librarian at the UMass Amherst Libraries.
Laura has a M.S. in Library and Information Science (University of Kentucky, 1993) and a J.D. (UC Berkeley School of Law, 2003).
She has taught as an adjunct professor at Simmons College, and at the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law. She has consulted with libraries and non-profits on copyright, privacy, and other technology law concerns. She has also worked as a librarian and assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has lectured and taught courses to a wide variety of audiences.
Laura's research interests include copyright, tensions within teaching and scholarly communication, and more broadly, human rights concerns within information law and policy, including privacy, access to knowledge, and intellectual freedom.
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