34th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium

Presented by the UCLA School of Law
Speaking Engagement
February 26-27, 2010
University of California Los Angeles
Freud Playhouse, Macgowan Hall
245 Charles E. Young Drive, East
Los Angeles, California

Partner Susan Grode will moderate the topic “Not your Gutenberg Printing Press - Content Empowered by Technology - The Promise of Digital to Transform Book Publishing” at 2:15 p.m. on Saturday, February 27.

Topics that will be discussed by the panel include:
  • How the new e-publishers and online booksellers, aided by the evolution from paper to e-readers, apps and beyond, are reimaging and reshaping the publishing industry
  • Content wars - who owns or controls digital rights to older books, what did and do the publishing agreements say, and do "free" books and scribed facilitate piracy?
  • Price wars - the disparity between digital and traditional paper book sales and between discount big-box stores and online retailers
  • The Google book settlement controversy and its short and long term effects on authors, publishers, libraries and copyright law

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