TALK: Media Ownership and Copyright
William Warner (Professor of English, Director of UC Digital Cultures Project, UCSB)
& Dr. Sarah Pritchard (University Librarian, UCSB)
Wednesday, November 17 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor / Free
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The third event in a year-long series on Media Ownership: Research and Regulation. William Warner will situate contemporary copyright and ownership issues in a historical context. Professor Warner conducts research on the Enlightenment, the novel, the history of media culture from the 18th century to the present and free speech and censorship. His many books include Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading, 1684-1750 (1998) and Cultural Institutions of the Novel (edited, 1996). His current research project is focused on Early American networks. Dr. Pritchard became the University Librarian at UCSB in 1999, and in 2001 was selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries to receive the Career Achievement Award in Women's Studies. She is the author of the RLG Conspectus in Women's Studies and The Women's Annual 1983-1984, and was editor of the ARL Statistics and Salary Survey.

For other speakers and activities in the series, see: www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/events.html
This series is sponsored by The Center for Film, Television and New Media; The Critical Issues in America Endowment, College of Letters & Science; the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication in the Department of Communication; the Department of Film Studies and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

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