SIIA 19th Annual
Conference--Leveraging Change: Strategies
for Growth
May 4-6- Palace Hotel,
APRIL BROWN BAG
LUNCH SERIES – NYC *
Registration and program
details below ---
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Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems
Peter R. Kann, Dow Jones & Company
Scott C. Marden, The McGraw-Hill Companies
Craig Swenson, Ph.D.,
Wednesday, April
9
REGISTER TODAY AT https://www.trendsreport.net/events/calendar/prereg.asp?eventid=285
Topic: “The New Economy?-A Panel Discussion about the Changing World of Intellectual Property”
Speakers: Morton David Goldberg, Partner, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
James J. Halpert, Partner, Piper Rudnick, LLP
Joel R. Wolfson, Partner, Blank
Matthew J. Oppenheim, Esq., Senior Vice
President, Business and Legal Affairs, Recording Industry Association of
Moderator: Lee Greenhouse, President, Greenhouse Associates
Location:
Deloitte & Touche, 2 World Financial Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Rooms
A & B,
Time:
Intellectual property has become a new battleground for authors, publishers, distributors, and users. Thanks to technology, every area of content – print, music, video, and film – is now embroiled in controversy and litigation over the definition of IP rights. Congress has entered the fray by trying to rewrite laws, many of which date from the time before digital media. This brown bag lunch will discuss the potential impact of recent and pending legal cases on the content business and potential ways for content providers and distributors to protect themselves in a radically changing world.
Registration Fees:
SIIA members:
Free
NYNMA members: $25.00
Non-members:
$35.00
Thursday, April
10
REGISTER TODAY AT https://www.trendsreport.net/events/calendar/prereg.asp?eventid=266
Topic: “Targeting End Users: Scientists & Engineers”
Speaker: Mary Corcoran, Vice President and Lead Analyst, Outsell, Inc.
Registration Fees:
SIIA members:
$125.00
Non-members: $225.00
Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m. ET
Scientists and engineers have distinct and unique information needs. In this webcast, Outsell will present and analyze its extensive data about this function’s information habits and preferences. Key attributes to be analyzed include: goals, values and work tasks; types of information used; information spending levels; perceptions of the Internet as an information source; and information problems and challenges. Content vendors targeting scientists and engineers will come away with a solid understanding of the unique information needs of an important group of users.
Thursday, April
17
REGISTER TODAY AT https://www.trendsreport.net/events/calendar/prereg.asp?eventid=289
Topic: “The Next Frontiers of Intellectual Property”
Speakers: Ken Dort, Partner and Chair of the Intellectual Property Department, Gordon & Glickson
Bart Lazar, Partner and Chairman of the National Copyright Practice, Seyfarth Shaw
Tom Arden, Member, Holland & Knight
Moderator: Lee Greenhouse, President, Greenhouse Associates
Location: Offices of William Blair & Company
222 West Adams Street Conference Room 32A, 32nd Floor
Chicago
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m. CT
Intellectual property is a new battleground among authors and other content creators, publishers, distributors, technology companies, and users. Time-honored conventions among these players have been disrupted by new technologies, usage patterns, and business relationships. A panel of experts will present and discuss a series of groundbreaking legal cases that have major implications for players involved in the creation, publishing, distribution, sale, and use of many kinds of intellectual property, including textual content, quantitative data, music, film, video, and software.
Registration Fees:
SIIA members:
Free
Non-members: $35.00
Thursday, April
24
REGISTER TODAY AT https://www.trendsreport.net/events/calendar/prereg.asp?eventid=288
Topic: “Making Sense of Digital Rights Management”
Speakers:
Scott Gordon, Vice President, Contracting & Legal Department,
OneSource Information Services, Inc.
James Hickey, Vice President of Business
Development, Authentica, Inc.
Cynthia J. Larose, Partner, Mintz Levin Cohn
Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC
Moderator: Peter Marx, Esq., Chairman, The Marx Group
Location: HQ Global Workplaces
70 Walnut Street
Wellesley Hills, MA
Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Is digital rights management dead or just waiting for the market to
mature? What are the challenges of DRM from operation, technical and legal
perspectives? While the marketplace is littered with struggling DRM vendors,
content companies remain keenly interested in ways to protect their intellectual
property. Is the problem that DRM solutions have failed to meet the needs of the
market in terms of cost and usability? Or is it that DRM faces some fundamental
obstacles, such as the need for producers and users of content to establish
business rules, contractual protocols, administrative procedures and agreement
on the essence of property rights?
Registration Fees:
SIIA members:
Free
Non-members: $35.00
MIMC members: Free
NYNMA members:
$25.00
SIIA’s next IP Committee Meeting will take place on April 24th from 2-4 p.m. at SIIA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Contact Keith Kupferschmid at keithk@siia.net to receive an agenda and/or dial-in information for the meeting.
Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Headquarters
1090 Vermont Avenue Suite 600 Washington, DC 20005
SIIA and Outsell, Inc. are about to field the first-ever Information Industry Compensation Survey. Targeted to human resources executives in content companies and research firms, this is the only salary and benefit survey that addresses the unique titles in the information industry. Your senior human resources official should receive an invitation to participate. If you would like to be sure you are included or you would like more information, please contact Anne Griffith, SIIA Research Director at agriffith@siia.net.
Or, there is a new informational web page posted at www.outsellinc.com/outsell/siiasalarysurvey.
MAKE
SURE YOUR COMPANY IS INCLUDED IN Contracts in the Information Industry,
Volume IV.
A completely-revised 4th edition of one of SIIA's best selling books, Contracts in the Information Industry is about to be published. The book is a compilation of form agreements provided by SIIA member companies. Make sure that your company is recognized by having one or more of your form agreements included. In addition to recognition and visibility, all contributing companies will receive a complimentary copy of the book and accompanying CD-ROM. Form contracts that we're looking for include:
* Content
marketing and distribution
* Web site development
* Web hosting
*
maintenance
* database licensing
* privacy policies
* terms of
service
* disclaimers
* click throughs
* linking
* agency
arrangements
* Web advertising
* end user subscriptions and licenses
*
joint ventures and strategic alliances
To learn more about how your company can participate, contact Peter Marx at the Marx Group at 617-576-5730 or peter@marxgroup.com.
GET
NOTICED WITH SIIA JOBS NETWORK
No more Monsters! SIIA has launched its new Jobs NetWORK. It is a low-cost, high quality and targeted jobs site designed to meet your needs for top caliber candidates with industry-related experience. The Jobs NetWORK is an industry-focused community matching quality employers with experienced candidates. In challenging times finding the right people the first time is critical, so visit http://jobsnetwork.siia.net. To learn more about this new service, please contact Jonathan Thompson, Vice President of Marketing & Communications at jthompson@siia.net or +1.202.789.4465.
Employees of SIIA member companies can now use the Member Participation Worksheet at http://www.siia.net/participate_work_sheet/participate.asp to register their interest in various SIIA activities and publications. Members are encouraged to visit this page ensure that they can take full advantage of their SIIA membership. For more information, please contact Meg Looney at mlooney@siia.net.
Nstein
AWARDED "E-CONTENT PRODUCT AWARD FOR BEST CONTENT MANAGEMENT
SOFTWARE
Nstein Technologies Inc., the leading provider of software applications for managing unstructured information was awarded the “E-content Product Award for Best Content Management Software ” yesterday by the prominent Canadian-based e-Content Institute. This award was based on the high levels of innovation, vision, and functionality, as well as the ease of use and overall excellence of Nstein’s software suite, Nserver. Nstein Technologies proudly accepted this Award during the Information Highways Conference, which was organized by the e-Content Institute, from March 24th to March 26th, in Toronto.
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