An item of interest forwarded from today's issue of the Digital Copyright Digest. ************************************************************************ The Public Service Collections Directorate of the Library of Congress is sponsoring a talk by Karen Coyle on November 19, 2003 [in-person and via live webcast]: Karen Coyle, a Digital Library Specialist with over two decades of experience in digital libraries will be presenting a lecture entitled, "The Technology of Copyright: Digital Rights Management" at the Library of Congress on Wednesday, November 19th, from 10:30am - 12:00pm in the Pickford Theater on the 3rd floor of the Library of Congress' James Madison Building, located at First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, D.C. No reservations are necessary. All lectures are free and open to the public. This lecture will be broadcast live via the Internet at http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/coyle.html on the morning of the lecture, EST, and will be viewable with Real Player software. Without technological controls, digital documents are easily copied. Publishers of texts, music and video are looking to digital rights management (DRM) technology to allow them to distribute and sell their goods in digital format with a limited risk of piracy. DRM technologies in development today range from simple password control to elaborate models of trusted systems. They all exercise some control over the use of materials they protect. What will it mean to writers, publishers, readers and libraries to work with documents that are protected by technology? How does DRM interact with copyright law? Can we live with it? Can we survive without it? Karen Coyle has most recently worked for the Division of Library Automation at the University of California and the California Digital Library. She is a well-known metadata expert, and has served on the MARC standards committee, the NISO OpenURL committee, and has advised in the development of MODS and other metadata efforts. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]