CALL FOR PAPERS

Battling for Ownership In the Arts:  Who Controls Music, Film, Publishing,
and Visual Communications?

First Bi-Annual Conference, April 16-18, 2004

Boca Raton Marriott in Boca Raton, FL

Host:  Dorothy F. Schmidt, College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic
University

Conference Committee:  Michael Zager, Jeffrey Galin, Anthony Tamburri,
Robert Davis, Heather Coltman, Angel DiCosola, Jean-Louis Baldet, Susan
Reilly, Mark Scroggins, Eric Freedman

We invite abstracts for 20 minute presentations and complete panel and
roundtable proposals on all aspects of intellectual property in music, film,
publishing, and visual communications.  We especially encourage those that
address issues across the commercial arts and/or their impact on the public
good.  We offer the following questions as areas of particular interest:

*        What industry-specific intellectual property problems have
cross-industry implications and how might solutions to these problems affect
the industries and their consumers?

*        How are music, film, publishing, and visual communications
industries addressing the conflicts between corporate rights to protect
assets and public rights to fair-use and advancement of the public good?

*        How do specific cases like the RIAA's suits against peer-to-peer
music traders, Jon Johansen (developer of DVD decoding software), Kinko's
(copying course packets for university students) affect copyright holders,
legal doctrine, and cultural practices?

*        How should the industries that deal in the arts change as a result
of new digital technologies, user habits and expectations, and the balance
that must be maintained between encouraging creativity by giving exclusive
property rights in creations and fostering a competitive market place by
giving the freest possible public access to works of authorship and the
ideas they encompass?  For example, how will industries like music continue
to change in response to the changing roles of intellectual property online?
Will most music be sold online, and if so how will illicit music trading be
stopped?

*        In the first weeks of 2003 the Supreme Court upheld the Sonny Bono
Act's twenty year extension of the 1976 Copyright Law, and the recording and
technology industries reached a "landmark agreement" to address piracy
concerns, meet consumer expectations, and forestall government regulation of
digital copyrights.  How will such decisions affect the future of copyright
and cultural production/exchange?  What implications will such national
decisions have on global markets and cultures?

Invited speakers will include:

Rosemary Coombe, Tier One Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and
Cultural Studies at York University in Toronto; Siva Vaidhyanathan, Director
of the undergraduate program in Communication Studies in the department of
Culture and Communication at New York University; Daphne Ireland,
Intellectual Property Manager at Princeton University Press and Chair of the
Copyright Committee for the American Association of University Publishers;
Bruce Phillips, Senior Acquisitions Editor for Music and Dance Books,
Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group; Kenneth Crews,
Professor in the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and in the IU
School of Library and Information Science, Associate Dean of the Faculties
for Copyright Management, and Director of the Copyright Management Center at
IUPUI; Jenny Toomey, Executive Director Future of Music Coalition; Robert
Spoo, Copyrights Editor for the Journal of Modern  Literature and the  James
Joyce Quarterly and a member of the intellectual property  group at the law
firm of Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Wendy
Seltzer, Staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier  Foundation and founder
of the Chilling Effects Project; Melanie Masterson, VP of Antipiracy at EMI
Latin America; Ann Chaitovitz, National Director of Sound Recordings for the
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) in Washington;
Peter Dekom, Co-Chairman, American Cinematheque and former partner in the LA
law firm of Bloom, Dekom, Hergott and Cook; Neil Crilly, Executive Director
of the Florida Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
NARAS; Robert Baron, Arts Information Consultant specializing in museum and
image systematics, intellectual property advocacy, selected topic in
Renaissance book illustration, and monalisiana.

Keynote presentations by Peter Dekom and Ann Chaitovitz.

All abstracts and proposals (250 words) should be submitted in duplicate.
Please mail abstracts postmarked by January 5th to Professor Jeffrey R.
Galin, Department of English, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road,
Boca Raton, FL 33431 or sent via email to [log in to unmask]  Tel: (561)
297-1221 Fax: (561) 297-3807

CONFERENCE INFORMATION Boca Raton Marriott, 5150 Town Center Circle, Boca
Raton, FL 33486 (561-392-4600) (Fax 561-395-8258)

Rooms $79.00 + tax; single/double and $179 + tax; suite

NOTE:  You must mention the "Battling For Ownership" conference when making
reservations.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

Friday

5:30-6:30 Cocktail Hour (Music by an FAU ensemble)

6:30-7:30 Dinner

7:30-9:00 Keynote Speaker

Saturday

8:30-10:00 Roundtable For The Entire Conference

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:45 Concurrent Sessions

11:45-12:00 Break

12:00-1:30 Boxed Lunch With Keynote Speaker

1:30-1:45 Break

1:45-3:15 Roundtable For Entire Conference

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-5:00 Concurrent Sessions

5:00-8:00 Break

7:00-8:00 Reception Before FAU Symphony Performance (On FAU Campus)

8:00 Concert On FAU Campus

Sunday

8:30-10:30 Policy And Proposal Action Groups

15-20 Breakout Sessions Addressing Predetermined Topics

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Reports From Action Groups To Conference Body

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