Google Settlement Information Seminar
CLÉ is offered a seminar on the controversial and complicated Google Settlement on Friday 29th May at 2pm in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.

Sam Holman, ICLA, www.icla.ie, Olga Martin Sancho, FEP, www.fep-fee.be, and Fergal Tobin, Gill & Macmillan, Vice-President FEP and CLÉ representative to FEP and IPA, discussed the important aspects of the settlement and considered the various decisions available to Irish publishers and stakeholders and their consequences. The floor was also open to questions and discussion. If you attended the seminar you can download the presentations from the Members Area of this site. If you are not a member of CLÉ please email info@publishingireland.com and request the douments.

SAMANTHA HOLMAN is the CEO of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency which represents authors’ and publishers’ rights in relation to reprography. Samantha is also on two national voluntary boards, the Copyright Association of Ireland and the Irish Visual Artists’ Rights Organisation.

OLGA MARTIN SANCHO is a qualified lawyer and is currently working as the legal advisor of the Federation of European Publishers, focusing particularly on EU copyright issues. Her main areas of expertise are Protection of Intellectual and Industrial Property in the EU and in the WIPO, Competition Law, and European and German Media Law.

FERGAL TOBIN (CHAIR) is Vice President of the Federation of European Publishers. Fergal has been the Publishing Director of Gill & Macmillan since 1995 and has published, among many books, the monumental Encyclopaedia of Ireland. Fergal also served as President of CLÉ from 2002 to 2004.

Friday 29th of May, 2pm, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
www.ria.ie