PUBLISHING AFTER COPYRIGHT
Maintaining control online
presented by KEYNOTE and Electronic Publishing Services

Venue: RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
Date: Wednesday 7 March 2001
Conference Chairman: David Worlock, Electronic Publishing Services

'Content is the loss leader as publishers migrate to advertiser and service provider models'

'If you have premium content, then digital rights management is becoming the sole route to market'

After copyright

• Is web publishing the death knell for copyright? Can the tried and tested standards of intellectual property protection be maintained in an unmonitored environment where everything is possible?
  
• Can traditional publishers migrate to the new solutions?
  
• What will the future of publishing look like?

This timely conference brings together key players from the traditional and current online worlds to share their insider experiences and predictions. They will discuss and analyse the challenges that publishers face in the Brave New World of web publishing. They will examine the threat of peer-to-peer services, and tackle the critical questions facing worried publishers today.

This conference will re-assess web publishing as a viable business model and offer the opportunity to benefit from the practical experience and the knowledge of those who are striking out and re-defining publishing as we know it.

The threats that publishers face

• making content available in the way that users want and expect it
  
• the undermining of copyright through web publishing and network applications
  
• the threat of P2P software development
  
• the erosion of publishers' control over content

How publishers can face the challenges

• defining the role of Digital Rights Management in regaining control
  
• ensuring security applications work consistently
  
• creating a survival strategy for the new publishing age
  
• making licensing a key feature
  
• le-assessing the web publishing model

The key issues for debate

• If content is free how do you create margins from it?
  
• Where premium content is paid for, how do you secure it?
  
• What happens to publishers and other middlemen if the content trading system changes?

Case studies

• Cross referencing: xrefer.com. Can partnerships ensure survival?
  
• E-books: Taylor & Francis. Can e-books save publishers?

Publishing After Copyright follows on from the overwhelming success of last year's sell-out Keynote/EPS conference on the Third Generation Web, and will be of vital interest to anyone involved in traditional and web publishing.

EARLY BIRD BOOKING: book your conference places before 31 January 2001 and gain 10% saving on the price of your booking

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