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The cherry trees are in bloom in the nation’s capital, but our Executive Director, Michael Wolfe, won’t have much time for sightseeing—he’ll be traveling to Washington, D.C. to represent Authors Alliance at a series of events over the next ten days.

First on the agenda is DPLAFest, hosted by the Digital Public Library of America from April 14-16. The conference “brings together librarians, archivists, and museum professionals, developers and technologists, publishers and authors, teachers and students, and many others to celebrate DPLA and its community of creative professionals.” This year’s venues include the National Archives and Records Administration, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress.

On April 18, Mike will participate in a panel discussion at “Authors, Attribution, and Integrity: Examining Moral Rights in the United States,” a one-day symposium hosted by the U.S. Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. Topics will include the “historical development of moral rights, the value that authors place on moral rights generally and individual moral rights specifically, the various ways these rights are provided for under current law, and new considerations for the digital age.” He will speak about the current state of protection of moral rights in the U.S.

The American University Washington College of Law is hosting an Authors Alliance meet-and-greet with MIke Wolfe, Peter Jaszi, Mike Carroll, and Brandon Butler on April 19 at 3:30 PM. The university community is invited to bring questions and chat about topics such as rights reversion, maximizing the impact of publications, and the effects of copyright law on scholarship and teaching. The event will be held in Warren N102, Washington College of Law, 4300 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.

Finally, to wrap up a busy week of events, Mike will attend the inaugural Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) Conference from April 20-22 at George Mason University. This invitation-only conference is being held for the first time in 2016, and launches an ambitious ten-year effort to bring together key stakeholders from around the world and chart a course in scholarly communication across disciplines.