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                NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: PORTLAND
             Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World
                http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/portland.html 

            Co-sponsored by the Canadian Heritage Information Network
          and the Intellectual Property Section of the Oregon State Bar

        at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums

             Doubletree Hotel Portland Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
                            Thursday May 22, 9am-4pm

                       Registration Required with AAM: $75
        http://www.aam-us.org/prof_ed/annual_mtg/2003RegistrationForm.pdf 
                  [Workshop 64: Intellectual Property Workshop]

            *  Advance Registrations Must Be Received By April 18  *
           After April 18, Registrations (if available) only on-site

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In a world where many content-providers are worried about digital misappropriation of material, and users are concerned about inaccessible, expensive or low-grade resources, how important is it for museums to have clear and fair intellectual property policy to monitor the use and distribution of digital content and how do they go about creating it? "Creating IP Policy in Museums," the subject of this NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, will attempt to answer these questions.

This Copyright Town Meeting and Workshop, presented with the Canadian Heritage Information Network at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums will be held in the Doubletree Hotel, Portland - Lloyd Center, on Thursday May 22 9am-4pm.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

* Rachelle Browne, Assistant General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution
* Maria Pallante, Pallante-Hyun LLC, Legal Counsel, Guggenheim Museum/Foundation
* Rina Elster Pantalony, Legal Counsel, Canadian Heritage Information Network
* David Sturtevant, Head of Collections Information and Access, SFMOMA
* Nicole Vallières, Director, Collection Management and Information, McCord Museum of Canadian History
* Diane Zorich, Museum Information Management Consultant; author of "Developing Museum Intellectual Property Policies".

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The Portland Town Meeting and Workshop will be part presentation, part practicum. It will open with a definition of what museum intellectual property policy is, what core values it represents and why it is important for an institution to have. A keynote address will situate the role of institutional policy within an international context. Museum legal expert Maria Pallante will then analyze the key issues to consider when preparing a policy. The specific concerns of smaller museums will be considered by Nicole Vallières of Montreal's McCord Museum of Canadian History. Diane Zorich will then conclude the first section of the meeting with key lessons learned in the research and writing of the CHIN/NINCH publication, Developing Museum Intellectual Property Policies.

In the second half of the meeting two practitioners will examine policy building. David Sturtevant will report on his experience of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in developing its intellectual property policy, while Rachelle Browne of the Smithsonian Institution will examine the importance of understanding an institution's larger values in constructing policy. These talks will introduce the workshop component of the Meeting, at which participants will break into working groups to construct policy solutions to particular museum situations. The results of the working groups will be reviewed by a panel of all the speakers.

The focus of this meeting is designed to complement that of the NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, held November 2001 in Eugene, Oregon, on "Creating Policy: Copyright Policies in the University" <http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html>. This meeting is also based on a meeting held in Toronto at the MCN Conference on Creating Museum IP Policy <http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/torontoreport.html>.


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.

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REGISTRATION

Please register for this meeting using the AAM Meeting Registration Form (http://www.aam-us.org/prof_ed/annual_mtg/2003RegistrationForm.pdf), even if you will not attend any other AAM event. Should you not want to attend any other events at the AAM Meeting, you must still complete the AAM Registration Form, checking Workshop 64 (Intellectual Property Workshop), but write "WORKSHOP ONLY" for Registration and $75 for Special Events on the Payment Form (page 3 of the Registration Form). You can mail in the PDF Registration Form, as long as it is received by April 18. After that registration will only be accepted at the registration area of the AAM conference in Portland.

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