Edward Colleran
Senior Director, International Relations, Copyright Clearance Center

Ed Colleran serves as the Senior Director of Rightsholder Relations at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world’s premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions. He oversees strategic initiatives focused on CCC’s publisher constituency and manages the development of content licensing solutions and new revenue-generating initiatives for CCC’s participating publishers. Ed also provides the vision for the advancement of CCC’s digital rights management services and is a key contributor on other long-term strategic issues facing the information industry.

Sessions

11:50am Tuesday, 02/12/2008

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 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.