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               NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: ATLANTA

        Presented in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology
               School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
                   "Media Issues in the Digital Age:
          Copyright Strategies for Education and Culture"
               http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/atlanta.html 

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                         Monday September 30, 9am-5pm
                         Free of Charge * Open to All
       Registration Required:  http://streamingquill.com/contract/NINCH 

This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress 
Foundation and  with support from the Graduate School of the Georgia 
Institute of Technology and from the Intellectual Property Law 
Section of the State Bar of Georgia


With registrants from as far afield as California, Oregon, Canada and 
Australia, the 20th NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, hosted in Atlanta 
by the Georgia Institute of Technology, announces its final program 
for Monday September 30.

Although copyright law was originally written with text documents in 
mind, the Internet and its increasingly wide bandwidth capabilities 
are demanding changes. Napster dramatized the issues and as a result 
commercial companies are scrambling to adjust their business models. 
Recent decisions about license fees for radio webcasting, concerns 
about movie piracy and the imminent arrival of the TEACH Act have 
brought into focus many of the media issues that have to be solved.

What are the implications of these issues for the educational and 
cultural communities in the management, use and re-use of media 
online? Are film studios so concerned about piracy that they will not 
give permission for classroom use? Is licensing the only answer for 
digital access to media and will it be prohibitively expensive for 
teachers and researchers? Is there a way to get automated 
permissions? Is Fair Use still a viable option for online use of 
media? What other issues are preventing the online distribution of 
our rich heritage in dance?

Building on a 2001 Copyright Town Meeting held at the New York Public 
Library, the Atlanta Town Meeting will examine the challenges and 
consider practical strategies for taking advantage of the digital 
promise using media online.


Program
The meeting will open with two internationally known copyright 
experts, L. Ray Patterson and Joseph Beck, giving their views on the 
key digital issues that have serious implications for the deployment 
and use of sound and moving images online. These will include the 
TEACH Act and the recent webcasting licensing fee decision, among 
others. Patterson is universally known for his classic work, 
Copyright in Historical Perspective and Joseph Beck is now probably 
best known as the lead counsel for the defendent in "The Wind Done 
Gone" case.

The major part of the meeting will be divided between Film, 
Television, the Performing Arts and Sound, each panel taking a 
different perspective on the issues of access to material, getting 
permission to use and re-use material, and what is permissible and 
fair use in research, in the classroom and online.

As with all NINCH Copyright Town Meetings there will be time for 
questions and discussions throughout the program and the session will 
end with a FORUM session for all participants

Featured speakers:
*  Ruta Abolins, Director, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody 
Awards Collection, University of Georgia
*  Philip Auslander, Professor, School of Literature, Communication, 
and Culture, Georgia Tech
*  Joseph Beck, Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP; Adjunct Professor 
of Copyright Law and of the First Amendment, Emory University
*  Kathy Christensen, Vice-President, News Archives and Research, CNN
*  Paul Gherman, University Librarian, Vanderbilt University
*  Jerry Goldman, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.
*  TyAnna K. Herrington, Associate Professor, School of Literature 
Communication, and Culture
*  Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law
*  Robert Kolker, Chair, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
*  Janet Murray, Director, Information Design and Technology Graduate 
Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
*  Horace Newcomb, Lambdin Kay Distinguished Professor for the 
Peabody Awards at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass 
Communication, University of Georgia
*  Madeleine Nichols, Curator of the Dance Collection, The New York 
Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
*  L. Ray Patterson, Pope Brock Professor of Law, University of Georgia
*  Russell Reeder, President & CEO, RightsLine, Inc.
*  Matthew White, Vice President, National Geographic Film Library


The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings seek to balance expert opinion and 
audience participation on the basics of copyright law, the 
implications of copyright online, recent changes in copyright law and 
practice, and practical issues related to the networking of cultural 
heritage materials. The program will include plenty of time for 
audience questions, comments and discussion.

Register online at <http://streamingquill.com/contract/NINCH>. Lunch 
can be purchased at the food court of the Student Center, and a 
special room will be set up for participants to enjoy it.

Maps, directions and information on hotel accommodation can be found 
on the Copyright Town Meeting web site: 
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/atlanta.html 


For information on all NINCH Copyright Town Meetings, see 
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/ 

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Agenda

* Welcome & Introductions
- Sue Rosser, Dean of the Ivan Allen College, the Humanities and 
Social Sciences, Georgia Institute for Technology
- Robert Kolker, Chair, School of Literature, Communication and Culture
- Jeffrey Kuester, Chair, Intellectual Property Law Section of the 
State Bar of Georgia
- David Green, Executive Director, NINCH


* An Overview: Digital Copyright Issues Today and Tomorrow
- Joseph Beck, "The Transformative Use Defense to Copyright Infringement"
- L. Ray Patterson, "The Unconstitutionality of the DMCA."


* FILM: Getting Permission - Four Perspectives

- Robert Kolker, "Rights & Permissions: Difficult But Possible"
- Janet Murray, "Information Structure and Access to Motion Pictures: 
The AFI Classic Collection Digital Edition of Casablanca"
- Matthew White, "Too Much to Think About: Rights and 
Responsibilities from the Archivist's Perspective."
- Russ Reeder, "RightsLine: Automated (and affordable) Permissions"

* TV: Access and Use of the Archives
- Paul Gherman, "Vanderbilt University Television News Archive: Online Access?"
- Horace Newcomb, "The Peabody Awards: Building A Collection of 
Electronic Media Based on Definitions of Excellence."
- Ruta Abolins,
- Kathy Christensen, "CNN: Granting Permission for Educational Use of Material"

Lunch

* Afternoon Keynote:
TyAnna K. Herrington, "Copyright for Academics"

* PERFORMING ARTS: Preservation and Access in the Performing Arts: the
Leading Rights Issues
- Philip Auslander, "You Don't Own Me: Intellectual Property and Performance"
- Madeleine Nichols,  "Challenges for Accessing Performance Online"

* SOUND: Copyright & Permissions
- Jerry Goldman, "Teaching with Sound: a practical proposal for using sound
resources."
- Peter Jaszi, "Sound Issues"

* OPEN FORUM

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