The second UNESCO World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries will be organized at Lombardia, Italy on 6-8 June. The theme of Focus 2011 is ‘The Book Tomorrow: the future of the Written Word’.
There are three main themes: “The E-book Economy”, “Author’s Right in the Digital Era” and “The Digital Library” – and nine workshops: “Blog versus Newspaper”, “Future of writing and reading”, “Changes in the production and distribution chain”, “Copyright versus copy-left”, “Fair use and Creative Commons”, “Preserving the digital memory”, “The library as public service”, “Good and bad in public and private partnership” and “The risks of digitization”.
Keynotes are Robert Darnton, Milad Doueihi and Antonio Skarmeta. Other speakers include Esther Wojcicki, vice chairman of the board of directors of Creative Comnnons and the director of the Frankfurt Book Fair Jürgen Boos. Editor and publisher James Bridle, one of the speakers at Unbound Book, and Kristine Hanna, director of the Internet Archive are two of the workshop panelists.
‘The Book Tomorrow’ is tapping into a similar set of issues addressed at Unbound Book, but seems more focused on the debate about copyright, rather than formal changes to the book and on education.
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