Times and titles are subject to change

Registration and Coffee 8:00 am - 8:30 am

First Plenary Session 8:30 am -10:00 am

Break 10:00 am - 10:15 am

Second Plenary Session 10:15 am - 11:45 am

Luncheon sessions 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Break 1:45 pm - 2:00 pm

Third Plenary Session 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Break 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Plenary Wrap-up Session 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

8:30 am - 10:00 am

1. First Plenary Session: Is a more comprehensive system of legal protection needed for databases?

What would be the long-term effect on database producers and users if there were no additional legal protection?

Professor Yale Braunstein, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Richard Corlin, American Medical Association, Chicago

Professor Jane Ginsburg, Columbia University, New York

Professor J.H. Reichman, Vanderbilt University, Nashville

Dr. Jörg Reinbothe, European Commission, Brussels

Mr. Paul Warren, Warren Publishing, Washington, D.C.

Topics the panel may address

What does copyright and existing unfair competition law protect? What are the shortcomings in this protection?

What databases can be protected by technology? What databases cannot be protected by technology?

What would be the impact on US database makers if the EU laws stay in place and there is no commensurate US law?


10:00 am - 10:15 am Break

10:15 am - 11:45 am

2. Second Plenary Session: If some form of protection is needed, what specific concerns do the research and academic communities have about access to databases?

Professor Stephen Berry, University of Chicago, Chicago

Sir Roger Elliott, Oxford University, Oxford

Professor Robert Ledley, Georgetown Medical School, Washington, D.C.

Provost Charles Phelps, Rochester University, Rochester, New York

Mr. Paul Uhlir, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

Professor Jan Rosen, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm

Topics the panel may address

What has been the effect of database protection on science and research in countries that have or have had such laws?

What has been the reaction of the research community in Europe to the EC Directive and implementing national laws?

What are specific examples of database access that the scientific and academic communities are concerned that they would lose if a database protection law were passed?

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

3. Third Plenary Session: How do we prevent overprotection? How do we craft "fair use" exceptions in any system of legal protection?

Mr. Toby Bainton, Standing Committee on National and University Libraries, London

Dr. Martin Blume, American Physical Society, Washington, D.C.

Professor Marci Hamilton, Cardozo Law School, New York

Mr. C. Dean Hammond, Hammond, Inc., Maplewood, New Jersey

Ms. Jennifer Krueger, New York Public Library, New York

Professor Andreas Wiebe, Institute of Legal Informatics, Hanover, Germany

Topics the panel may address

What would be "fair use" for databases expressly developed to be used by educators, researchers, and scientists?

Does or will technology inhibit reasonable exercises of "fair use"?

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Break

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

4. Plenary Wrap-up Session: Reports from Lunch Breakout Sessions, followed by Plenary moderators' discussion

[Panelists to be announced]