TAA 2010 Conference Sessions
General Session:
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Google Settlement: Where It Stands, What It Means For You
Friday, June 25, 11 - 12 pm, Chippewa
Day/Time: Friday, 11 - 12 p.m.
Presenters: Stephen E. Gillen, Authoring Attorney, Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P., and Christopher Kenneally, Director of Author Relations for the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
Learn about the Google Settlement and where it currently stands as well as what the settlement means for textbook and academic authors.
All 2010 TAA Conference attendees will receive a complimentary copy of The Authors Guild, AAP, Google Settlement Seminar Series, from the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC).
The 110-page book contains transcripts from six of CCC's special educational series of interviews, seminars and presentations on the latest developments in the proposed class action settlement between Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, presented from April 2009 to February 2010, featuring Lois Wasoff, Esq.
About the
Presenters:
Stephen E. Gillen is an attorney practicing in Cincinnati, Ohio, and concentrating on publishing and entertainment transactions and disputes, internet issues, advertising law, computer law, copyrights, trademarks, technology transfer, trade secrets, and related matters. Prior to entering private practice in 1994, Gillen served for 8 years as house counsel for an educational publisher, and before that as an executive editor, editor, freelance writer, and published book author. In addition, Gillen has served on copyright and permissions committees with the Association of American Publishers. He has written and spoken nationally on various publishing and copyright topics and teaches a course in Media Business and Law at the University of Cincinnati and a course in Electronic Media Law at the College Conservatory of Music. He currently serves on the Council of Advisors to the Text and Academic Authors Association, the Board of Trustees of Voyageur Media Group, Inc., and is a member of the Authors Guild. Gillen is admitted to practice in Ohio and before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Christopher Kenneally is Director of Author Relations for the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC). He is responsible for organizing and hosting programs that address the business needs of authors of all backgrounds, from academics to freelancers. Among other activities, he is host and moderator for an ongoing series of writing conferences called, "Beyond the Book"; the programs are frequently broadcast nationally on C-SPAN's Book-TV and in Canada on the BookTelevision network. An award-winning journalist and author of "Massachusetts 101," Kenneally has reported for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Independent of London, and WGBH-TV (Boston).
