3rd Annual World's Fair Use Day

Public Knowledge
May 4th, 2012
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

9:00am - 9:30am | Registration

9:30am - 9:45am | Welcoming Remarks

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

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

2:00pm - 2:30pm | Keynote: Kirby Ferguson
Kirby Ferguson is the producer of the four-part series Everything is a Remix.

2:30pm - 3:00pm | Coffee break

3:00pm - 4:00pm | Poetry & Fair Use

4:00pm - 5:00pm | TBA - Stay tuned!

5:00pm - 6:00pm | SOPA Aftermath
With SOPA and PIPA shelved, how do we go forward from here on copyright policy? How do we keep people engaged? And, most importantly, how do we prevent Congress from messing up so royally again?