Tuesday 28th April
Collections, Creators and Copyright
Venue: Clinical Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building
Time: 12 noon
Digital communications technologies offer important ways for museums, galleries and libraries to promote public access to their collections. However, digital access also raises issues of copyright law and can affect the interests of creators and copyright owners. Professor Andrew Kenyon (Distinguished Fellow in Law, Queen Mary, University of London and Director, CMCL-Centre for Media and Communications Law, University of Melbourne) will examine recent Australian research into the perceived conflicts between the users of copyright material in the cultural sector, and creators and other copyright owners. Where, if at all, might interests coincide? The Australian experience will be discussed with the aid of commentators from the London museum and creative sectors including Bronac Ferran. Bronac Ferran is a freelance writer, researcher and arts consultant who also works part-time as a Visiting Lecturer in the Industrial Design Engineering department at the Royal College of Art in London . She is involved in projects in Brazil , China and the US and is a founder member of the bricolabs initiative which has members worldwide. Her work in the UK includes contributing to the ACE funded Art and Law initiative.
Dr Paul Gerhardt leads the UK's Creative Archive Licence Group - a consortium of public and commercial broadcasters and archives developing a shared public access strategy. He was joint director of the BBC Creative Archive.
Collaborative Doctoral Award Workshop
Venue: Lock Keeper's Cottage [map]
Time: 1.30 pm
This event is by invitation only
Getting Published (in collaboration with LCACE)
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre, Arts Building [map]
Time:
3.00 pm
This panel discussion will bring together a range of speakers who will highlight potential routes into publishing, followed by a discussion around the benefits and challenges inherent in these routes.
Chaired by Kenneth Armstrong, Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. Speakers include:
Sarah Stanton, Cambridge University Press
Rachel Kirton, Taylor and Francis On Line Development
Simon Worthington, Metamute Print on Demand
Armin Medosch, The Next Layer, Goldsmiths University
Tony White, Writer in Residence UCL
Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws Book Launch
Venue: Senior Common Room, Queen's Building [map]
Time: 4.30 pm
This event celebrates the books authored and edited by Queen Mary, University of London academics since April 2007. The event will showcase the diversity of the current research at the college and will be a unique opportunity to find out more about researchers' interests. During the reception you will have the chance to meet the authors and purchase books.
Collette Bowe, Chairman of Council, will open this event
Alan Rusbridger Lecture
Venue: Skeel Lecture Theatre, People's Palace
Time: 6.30 pm
Educated at Magdalene College , Cambridge , Alan Rusbridger has been the editor of The Guardian since 1995.
Before taking up this position he worked as a reporter and columnist at The Guardian before then moving on to work for The Observer, and as Washington Editor of the London Daily News. He returned to The Guardian in 1987.
Since taking up the position of editor at The Guardian, he has twice won Editor of the Year, in 1996 and 2001, and the newspaper has won Newspaper of the Year three times, in 1997, 1998 and 1999.
He is the co-author of Fields of Gold (BBC1) with Ronan Bennett, as well as miscellaneous children's books and articles.
Alan Rusbridger is currently a Visiting Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary, University of London.