Roberta Cairney

Roberta Cairney

Roberta Cairney Law Offices

Roberta Cairney is the founder of Roberta Cairney Law Offices, based in San Francisco. Her practice focuses on transactions involving nearly every form of new, old, and emerging technology.

She has advised a wide array of clients on the use of new technology tools and innovative business models in distributing and developing content and services, including O’Reilly Media, Safari Books Online, Lucasfilm Ltd., Charles Schwab & Co., The Perl Foundation, Chronicle Books, and The Exploratorium.

Sessions

11:50am - 12:35pm Tuesday, 02/12/2008
Copyright 2.0: How Social Media is Changing the Way We Manage Rights
General, Open Access, Social Winter Garden
Edward Colleran (Copyright Clearance Center), Greg Merkle (Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group), Dan Gisolfi (IBM Software Group), Roberta Cairney (Roberta Cairney Law Offices)
This session will be a moderated interactive panel discussion. The panelists will be thought leaders that represent various sides of this copyright conundrum. Read more.
1:00pm - 4:30pm Wednesday, 02/13/2008
Contracts and Legal Issues for Publishers in a Digital Age
Astor Ballroom
Roberta Cairney (Roberta Cairney Law Offices), Edward Colleran (Copyright Clearance Center), Andrew Bridges (Winston & Strawn, LLP), William S. Strong (Kotin, Crabtree & Strong, LLP), Maria A. Danzilo (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), Dan Lewis (Wikia, Inc. )
This tutorial will address some of the toughest legal issues facing publishers today. A panel of prominent attorneys will help you understand and navigate topics and issues including user-generated content, fair-use, satire, piracy, enforcement, copyright, licensing, contracts, and privacy issues. Read more.
Sponsors

Exclusive Diamond Sponsor

  • Ingram Industries

Platinum Sponsor

  • Cold Fusion Entertainment

Gold Sponsor

  • Copyright Clearance Center

Silver Sponsors

  • Accenture
  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • Antenna House
  • Appingo
  • Bookbank
  • codeMantra
  • Connotate
  • DNAML
  • HCL Technologies
  • Innodata Isogen, Inc.
  • itechne
  • LibreDigital
  • Lulu
  • Malloy
  • Mark Logic
  • Media Services Group
  • Microsoft Live Search Books
  • Near-Time
  • Qoop
  • RSuite
  • Value Chain International

Premier Media Partner

  • Publishers Weekly

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