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    --> Thursday, January 14 at 4:00 pm Eastern

    --> INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & OTHER IT LEGAL ISSUES

    --> with Margie Hodges Shaw, Policy Advisor, Office of

    --> Information Technologies and Steve Worona, Assistant to

    --> the Vice President for InformationTechnologies -- both of

    --> Cornell University, they are Co-Directors of Cornell's

    --> Computer Policy & Law Program

    --> http://seminars.cren.net/events/intelprop.html



-- THE ISSUES

As networked computing becomes ubiquitous we all know that authors,
publishers, and distributers find themselves unsure about just WHO owns
WHAT. Our guest experts this week will share the latest wisdom about the
"other" IP: Intellectual Property, and also address important IT legal
questions like:

* How personal are "personal" computers?

* Where or what are our major legal exposures?

* Are there special legal issues related to the Internet?

* Who owns university data? PC files? E-mail?

* Who owns university courses materials?

* Do recent legislation and court opinions affect your
  job responsibilities?

Be sure to tune in for this timely and free, distance independent
professional development opportunity. You can ask your questions
ahead of time (direct access to an expert!) or wait and ask them
during the audio webcast, by sending a message to "expert[_at_]cren.net."


-- OUR GUEST EXPERTS

In addition to holding the positions listed above our guests Steve
Worona and Margie Hodges Shaw are Co-Directors of Cornell's Computer
Policy and Law Program, which coordinates and delivers many conferences
and workshops each year. Each is active as a speaker and contributor at
academic-related information technology conferences and workshops such
as those held by EDUCAUSE.

Shaw is recognized as a national authority in the field of computer
policy and law. She is a contributing editor to "Synthesis: Law and
Policy in Higher Education" and a contributing author of the monograph
"Contemporary Issues in Judicial Affairs," in which she addresses First
Amendment issues and computer policy in higher education.

Worona is the creator of Cornell's CUinfo, the first campus-wide
information system and also serves on the editorial board of the
"Journal of Electronic Publishing."


-- SOME RESOURCES AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This week's experts wrote "Legal Underpinnings for Creating Campus
Computer Policy, in 1996."
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem9642.html

The Computer Policy and Law Program, of which they are co-directors,
provides a number of useful, related resources online,
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/CPL/, including:

   A collection of more than 720 Computer Policy and Law Policies
   catalogued by type and searchable by key word
   http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/CPL/Policies/

   A set of links to Academic Computer Policy and Law
   Organizations and Publications
   http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/CPL/academ.htm

   A related set of links to Intellectual Property Organizations
   and Publications
   http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/CPL/ipres2.htm

The following books, available from Amazon.com, are a sampling of what
is currently available in the intellectual property area:

   "Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations"
   by Thomas A. Stewart
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385482280/cren/

   "Profiting from Intellectual Capital: Extracting Value from
   Innovation" (Intellectual Property Series)
   edited by Patrick H. Sullivan
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047119302X/cren/

   "Digital Property" by Lesley Ellen Harris
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0075528460/cren/


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-- HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Topic:    Intellectual Property & Other IT Legal Issues

Who:      Guest Expert: Margie Hodges Shaw, Policy Advisor,
          Office of Information Technologies and Steve Worona,
          Assistant to the Vice President for Information
          Technologies -- both of Cornell University. They are
          Co-Directors of the Computer Policy & Law Program.
          http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/CPL/

          Technology Anchor: Howard Strauss, Manager of Advanced
          Applications, Princeton University

          Co-Host: Judith V. Boettcher, Executive Director,
          Corporation for Educational Research and Networking
          (CREN)

When:     Thursday, November 14 from 4:00 pm to 4:45 pm Eastern

Where:    http://seminars.cren.net/events/intelprop.html
          To join the webcast, just go to this URL, and then
          select the highlighted date. That link becomes active
          at 4:00 pm Eastern.

How:      At your desktop work station, listening to the live
          Audiocast using RealAudio


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