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The Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews
Open access within legal academia provides a case study for the effective use of digital formats to promote scholarship. The presenters review the background historical developments in this field, and consider the benefits and rationales for providing open access to legal scholarship, including the special faculty concerns arising from SSRN and its relationship to the institutional repository.
Break
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Can We Rescue the Vanishing Public Domain?
The public domain is in danger. The impact of multiple changes in U.S. law, many of which were part of American implementation of international copyright agreements, has drastically reduced the flow of works into the space where they are free for all to use. Nevertheless, the public domain is an integral part of the copyright bargain. This presentation will explore how we got into the current situation, why it should concern us, and what we might do to improve our prospects for a robust public domain.
Registration and continental breakfast
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Welcome
Welcomes were provided by:
- Lee Jackson (Chancellor, University of North Texas System)
- Martin Halbert (Dean of Libraries, University of North Texas)
- Edward Hart (Assistant Dean for Law Library, University of North Texas Dallas College of Law)
- Sen. John Cornyn (by video)
Opening reception
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2015 Symposium speakers awarded ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award
James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson, and Caroline Osborne, speakers during the upcoming Open Access Symposium 2015, were recently awarded this year's ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award for their article "The Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews."