Affiliated Organization News, March 2025

The IMLS-funded Building Community Around Provenance (B-CAP) grant team invites the ASIS&T community to a webinar on "Provenance policy objectives and tactics in the U.S". The webinar will be held on April 17, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST. Please mark your calendar and click here to get registered!

The webinar is part of a series of events exploring multidisciplinary challenges associated with provenance. Dr. Ellen Goodman (Rutgers Law) will explore the strategies of state and proposed federal legislation to address synthetic content harms through labeling and provenance mandates and/or nudges, arguing that the policies have design, implementation, and legal problems.

Dr. Ellen P. Goodman, @ellgood, is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School and Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. She recently served as Senior Advisor for Algorithmic Justice at NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce. At Rutgers, she co-directs and co-founded the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law (RIIPL) and was prior to government service a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. Goodman has published widely on media and telecommunications law, smart cities and algorithmic governance, freedom of expression, and advertising law. She served in the Obama Administration as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar with the Federal Communications Commission and has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and the University of Pennsylvania. Goodman has received grants from the Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation, Democracy Fund, and Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for work on digital platform regulation, transparency, advancing new public media models, and public interest journalism. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Goodman was a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, where she practiced in the information technology area. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, clerked for Judge Norma Shapiro on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and has three grownish children.

This webinar is made possible through the IMLS grant LG-256648-OLS-24. See more about our IMLS project here.

Click here to register (for free)!