Washington, DC | May 4, 2012

An annual, day-long celebration of fair use, creativity and remix culture.

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Schedule

9:00am - 9:30am | Registration

9:30am - 9:45am | Welcoming Remarks

    Michael Weinberg, Senior Staff Attorney and Innovation Evangelist, Public Knowledge

9:45am - 10:45am | Journalism & Fair Use

    Angela Chuang, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, American University
    Ryan Grim, Washington Bureau Chief, Huffington Post
    Josh Voorhees, Editor, The Slatest
    Moderated by: Joe Torres, Senior External Affairs Director, Free Press

11:00am - 12:00pm | Keynote: Robert Pinsky

    Robert Pinsky, poet and former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, spearheaded the Favorite Poem Project, to which thousands of Americans have submitted readings (both video and audio) of their favorite poems.

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm | Fashion & Copyright

    Nora Abousteit, Co-Founder, BurdaStyle
    Ilse Metchek, President, California Fashion Association
    Moderated by: Marissa Gluck, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Radar, USC

2:00pm - 2:30pm | Coffee break

2:30pm - 3:30pm | Poetry & Fair Use

    David Fenza, Executive Director, Association of Writer’s & Writing Programs
    Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic, American University
    Casey Smith, Assistant Professor of Arts & Humanities, Corcoran College of Art + Design
    Susan Tischy, Author, Professor, The Graduate Writing Program, George Mason University
    Moderated by: Sherwin Siy, Deputy Legal Director, Public Knowledge

3:30pm - 4:00pm | Keynote: Kirby Ferguson

    Kirby Ferguson is the producer of the four-part series Everything is a Remix.

4:00pm - 4:30pm | Closing Remarks

    Gigi B. Sohn, President & CEO, Public Knowledge

   

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