What kind of literature and book publishing will be relevant in the XXII century is planned to think over in the Presidential Library

7 August 2017

The “Book of the future: copyright and intellectual piracy in the XXII Century” international futurological conference will take place in the Presidential Library on August 7, 2017. The event begins at 11 am.

The most important for the book industry in general, for authors, publishers and of course for readers issues will be reviewed in three sections, boiling down to the main question: is there any place for literature in the future at all? Does the “digital” society that is having fun and socializing, purchasing and consuming, learning and working online really need a book, and if it does, what kind of book does it need? How does reading matter transform under the influence of changes in human reasoning, information consuming capacity and in case of overflow? How does the copyright modify and is it possible to invent such one that will help in the future to conquer book theft?

The best fantasy writer of Europe in 2009, the owner of the British Science Fiction Prize Roberto Quaglia, a sociologist and military historian Sergei Pereslegin, the head of the Department of New Media and Theory of Communication at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University Ivan Zasursky are going to attend the event. St. Petersburg based writer Andrei Stolyarov will tell what a book writer could expect in future, whether this figure will entirely disappear, since the concept of “a book without an author” already emerged. Editor-in-chief of the Petersburg Oriental Studies Publishing House Olga Trofimova will follow up changes in the traditional book format throughout history: notable that this process is always connected with a change in historical periods. Does a total distribution of the digital book mean that the future has already come? And what will come next after a virtualization of the author's figure, would it be a virtualization of the text as is? “There are no canonic texts in the era of electronic letters. Modern reading is stream oriented, there is almost no personal emotional involvement, because the reader is not after the emotions — he is after information, and information precisely on demand,” — Olga says. Does it really mean that the place of the book is taken by the columns of top bloggers and social networks feeds, offering reader hands-on ways of solving certain life problems, and has the art of “close reading” gone forever? A publisher and Internet expert, an expert in copyright and intellectual property protection Oleg Kolesnikov and General Director of the Internet-video Association Alexey Byrdin will forecast the copyright and book industries’ potential and outlook on the Internet —day after day and in a hundred years ahead. Why an intellectual piracy has become a problem and what awaits us in the near future, as well as business models, current technologies and protecting from piracy laws — our experts will cover these subjects in detail.

The conference organizer is the Union of Science Fiction Writers and Filmmakers with the assistance of the Book Union of Russia and the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media of Russian Federation.

 

Media accreditation for the event in the Presidential Library is mast and open until 12 pm on August 4, 2017.

Please, submit your applications for accreditation in the attached form with the “Media Accreditation” note in subject line over email: sgudkova@rambler.ru, +7 (926) 581 8876, Svetlana Gudkova.

Your application on the attached form must specify a media name, a full name of media representative, a date and a place of representative’s birth, full passport or picture id details (series, number, when and by what body it was issued, place of residence), a carry-on equipment (including notebooks and tablet computers), and the contact phone numbers.

Please be advised, that the event participants and guests enter the Presidential Library through the entrance  1, and the media representatives — through the entrance  2 by appointment only and without any exceptions upon presentment of passport or picture id.