JETLaw Symposium this Friday!!!

Join us for the 2009-2010 JETL Symposium: Drawing Lines in the Digital Age: Copyright, Fair Use, and Derivative Works

JETL’s annual symposium will take place this Friday, October 23, 2009 at Vanderbilt Law School. This Fall’s symposium, entitled “Drawing Lines in the Digital Age: Copyright, Fair Use, and Derivative Works” focuses on copyright law and asks questions about the line between fair use and copyright infringement, where various forms of user-generated content fall along this spectrum, and how these problems have been affected by the advent of digital technology. The symposium features presentations and discussion by 11 eminent copyright scholars. This event is open to the general public and CLE credit will be available for practitioners. Please contact Spencer Compton, elizabeth.s.compton@vanderbilt.edu for more information.

Schedule of Events

8:00 AM — 8:45 AM Breakfast for Participants and Journal Members

8:45 AM — 9:00 AM Opening Remarks from Dean Guthrie and Professor Hetcher

9:00 AM — 10:30 AM Treading the Line: Fair and Derivative Uses

Panelists: Thomas F. Cotter, Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law, University of Minnesota School of Law; Daniel J. Gervais, Professor of Law and Co-Director of Technology and Entertainment Law Program, Vanderbilt University Law School; Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law, Tulane University School of Law 

Moderator: Peter Routhier, Development Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law

10:45 AM — 12:30 PM Digital Authorship, Free Expression, And the First Amendment

Panelists: Christina Bohannon, Associate Professor, University of Iowa College of Law; Alina Ng, Assistant Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law; Alfred C. Yen, Professor of Law and Director of Emerging Enterprises and Business Law Program, Boston College Law School

Moderator: Mark P. McKenna, Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School

12:30 PM — 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM — 3:00 PM User Generated Content: Boon or Burden

Panelists: Laura N. Gasaway, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of North Carolina; Michael J. Madison, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Rebecca Tushnet, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Moderator: Steven Hetcher, Professor of Law and Co-Director of Technology and Entertainment Law Program, Vanderbilt University Law School

3:00 PM — 3:05 PM Closing Remarks From Professor Gervais

Following the program, please join us for a reception in the North Lobby