Come and meet us at the home of copyright
CLA licence holders are invited to our 2009 Open Meeting, which this year takes place on Tuesday 22 September. The venue for the meeting is the Stationers Hall, ‘the birthplace of copyright’ and only a few places remain due to a high level of interest.
The event starts at 2.30pm with a greeting and short review of the year by our independent Chairman John Nuttall. The afternoon will be built around guest presentations and two panel discussions held in the main hall. The meeting will be followed by a drinks reception in the impressive Court Room and Garden.
The first discussion is entitled Digital Advances in Education and will see a panel of educationalists, writers, publishers and CLA licensees discussing the impact of digital technology on the delivery of content within the education sector and the gaps this has created in licensing and accessibility . There will be an opportunity for guests to ask questions directly of the panel members.
In the main session of the day, a panel will consider California Governor, Arnold Schwarzeneggar’s proposal to replace school text books with e-books. The worlds’ biggest educational publisher, Pearson, has responded by providing new digital content for Californian schools. We have invited Pearson to tell us about their vision of the future and publishers, journalists and education professionals will debate whether this is an initiative Britain should imitate.
The meeting closes at 5pm and will be followed by a reception where guests can network, meet panel members and CLA staff, while enjoying the historic surroundings of the Stationers Hall.
This free to enter event is limited in number to 200 delegates, so please ensure your place as soon as possible.
If you wish to attend, simply reply to rsvp@cla.co.uk
More information will be posted as soon as it is confirmed.
About the venue
The hall has been the home of the Stationers and Newspaper Makers Company since the seventeenth century. The Company received a royal charter in 1557 which among other things, gave them the right to prevent and seize unlicensed copies of publications that were not entered into the Stationers Company Register otherwise known as the ‘entry book of copies’.
These regulations remained in force until replaced by the first copyright act of 1710. The Register remained the official written record of copies, confirmed by successive Copyright Acts, up to the Act of 1911, when registration was terminated in 1923.
In 1924 a new Register of Books and Fine Arts was established purely for the purpose of record and to assist in infringement disputes. The register was closed altogether in 2000, although The Company maintains an archive of the register in its' library on the site.
