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Upcoming lectures on digital future from the Library of Congress on CSPAN

I've been catching the lectures on the digital future sponsored by the Library of Congress and televised on CSPAN on a hit or miss basis.  Today I noticed in the Feb. 14 Roll Call an upcoming schedule:

March 3 - Lawrence Lessig, professor at Stanford Law School, will be presenting a program entitled, "Taming the Regulation of Culture".

March 14 - Edward Ayers, Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, will address implications for the creation and distribution of knowledge in today's digital environment.

The presentations can be viewed on C-SPAN from 6:30 to 8 p.m. EST. Viewers can e-mail the experts at digital@loc.gov and have their questions answered on the air during the presentations.

See also CSPAN schedule and archive of past videos.

Comments

I read the article about Children's Internet Protection Act by Mary Minow. Does this Act specifically require school districts or schools that are e-rate to block access through filters to such popular sites as Google Images that provide teachers and students with many valuable images that they incorporate into their lessons and assignments? Some images, if actively sought, can be offensive, yet Google Images is a valuable site for educators to incorporate visuals into their lesson plans.

Posted by: Abbe | March 04, 2005 at 09:56 AM

Greg - this isn't the Library of Congress's blog - Just a personal blog. Wanted to let you know so you can redirect your inquiry.
Mary

Posted by: Mary | March 03, 2005 at 04:37 PM

Why can't the library of congress accept books for copyright purposes through the internet instead of the cumbersome hard copies. It would be easy to simply email the word document in tack so It sould be stored electronically. Perhaps the stamped copyright form would be enough proof of receit or some sort of bar code to authenticate the transaction.
You may already have this process but I am not aware of it. Can you inform me regarding electronic filing of specifically book manuscripts fo copyright purposes.

Greg Middleton
Altadena, California

Posted by: Greg Middleton | March 03, 2005 at 01:49 PM

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