[blindlaw] FW: Live Webcast April 5: Federal Intellectual Property Policy: IP and Disability Rights

[Scott C. LaBarre]

FYI

 

From: Meredith Jacob [mailto:mjacob at wcl.american.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 6:53 AM
To: Meredith Jacob
Subject: Live Webcast April 5: Federal Intellectual Property Policy: IP and
Disability Rights 

 

Dear all,

 

Just wanted to provide you with this info to pass on to anyone in your
respective networks who may be interested in watching some or all of the
webcast online.  

 

While in-person registration is still open, and drop-in attendance is
welcome, at this point we wanted to highlight that the event will be live
webcast with captioning for anyone who would like to follow along remotely.

 

Inaugural Cherry Blossoms Conference on Federal Intellectual Property
Policy: Accessibility, Copyright and New Technologies

 

April 5, 2013 9:00am – 6:00pm

Washington College of Law – Room 402

4801 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC 20016 

Directions: goo.gl/M4LO3

Registration for In-Person Attendance and CLE :
https://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm

Live and On-Demand Webcast will be available once the event has begun at:
www.pijip-impact.org/events/cherry-blossoms

 

On April 5, 2013, American University Washington College of Law will host
the Inaugural Cherry Blossom Symposium, exploring intersections between
intellectual property and Federal policy. This year’s inaugural symposium
will focus on intellectual property and disability rights policy.

 

The symposium will take as a starting point the tensions between Federal
intellectual property laws, which promote exclusion as a means of fostering
creation and innovation, and disability rights law and policy, which promote
universal access and social inclusion. There an increasing number of issues
emerging at the intersection of Federal intellectual property laws and
disability rights legislation – including in policy discussions and
litigation over access to e-readers for people with visual impairments, over
access to closed captioning for media content for people who are deaf or
hard of hearing, over access to web content for people with cognitive
disabilities and over strategies for promoting innovation in technologies
and services that promote access more generally for people with
disabilities.

 

The 2013 Cherry Blossom Symposium is being sponsored by WCL’s Program on
Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Disability Rights Law Clinic,
Disability Law Society, and Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

 

Agenda

9:00

Welcome –  Michael Carroll,  Director, Program on Information Justice and
Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law

 

9:15

Copyright and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Conflict or Coexistence?

• Chair:  Peter Jaszi, Professor, American University Washington College of
Law

• Eve Hill, Senior Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights
Division

• Blake Reid, Graduate Clinical Fellow and Staff Attorney Institute for
Public Representation, Georgetown Law

• Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy, Cornell University

• Peter Blanck, University Professor & Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute,
Syracuse University

 

10:30

Break

 

10:45

Technology as a Tool for or Barrier to Universal Access

• Chair: Victoria Phillips, Director, Intellectual Property Law Clinic,
American University Washington College of Law

• Karen Peltz Strauss, Deputy Bureau Chief, Consumer and Governmental
Affairs Bureau, FCC

• Jonathan Lazar, Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, Director,
Universal Usability Laboratory, Towson University

• Raja S. Kushalnagar, Assistant Professor, National Technical Institute for
the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology

• Prue Adler, Associate Executive Director, Association of Research
Libraries

• Richard Culatta, Acting Director, Office of Educational Technology, US
Department of Education

 

12:45

Luncheon

• Keynote: George Kerscher, Secretary General, DAISY Consortium

2:00

IP and Disability Access in International Law

• Chair: Hadar Harris, Executive Director, Center on Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law

• Scott LaBarre, Legal Counsel, National Federation for the Blind

• Nancy Weiss, General Counsel, Institute of Museum and Library Services

• Facundo Chávez Penillas, Fellow, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian
Law, American University Washington College of Law

• Peter Jaszi, Professor,  American University Washington College of Law

 

3:15

Break

 

3:30

Roundtable Discussion: Patents and Innovation Systems for the Production of
Accessibility Tools

• Chairs: Jorge Contreras, American University Washington College of Law;
Sean Flynn, Associate Director, Program on Information Justice and
Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law

• Opening Presentation: Christian Vogler, Director, Technology Access
Program,  Gallaudet University, Patent Issues in TTY-911 Services

• Roundtable Discussion: Peter Blanck, Raja  Kushalnagar, Jonathan Lazar,
Bob Dinerstein

 

4:30

Close and Light Reception