Dead Poets Society:

Publishers and Their Fight to Keep Knowledge Offline

WASHINGTON, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Pat Schroeder's Association of
American Publishers has sued Google to prevent it from continuing to
scan works from the world's top libraries and create a "card
catalogue" for users. They contend this violates copyright law. This
Friday, March 10th, a bipartisan panel of legal experts and academics
will discuss the fallacies of this argument and examine the
implications of innovative new technologies like Google Book Search
that give the public broader access to knowledge.

DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2006

TIME: 10:00 AM ET

PLACE: HC-8 THE CAPITOL

PANELISTS:

Robert Shapiro

Former Undersecretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton

Bruce Fein

Former General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission under

President Ronald Reagan

James K. Glassman

Author and Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Elaine Kamarck

Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University. Former Senior Policy

Advisor to Vice President Al Gore

Ken Boehm, Moderator

Chairman, National Legal and Policy Center

**BREAKFAST INCLUDED**

PLEASE RSVP TO NLPCEVENT@GMAIL.COM

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