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Conference: Connecting Culture and Commerce: Getting the Right Balance
26 January 2007 at the National Gallery
Register and find out more at:
<http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/>http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/

The Museums Copyright Group in association with Kings College London
are delighted to announce the following confirmed speakers:

Alan Yentob, BBC's Creative Director, Director of Drama,
Entertainment and CBBC.

Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery.

Jon Snow, Channel Four News presenter and a Trustee of the National
Gallery and Tate Liaison Trustee.

Professor Charles Oppenheim, Head of Information Science,
Loughborough University.

We are also really pleased to announce our expert panel members:

Gretchen Wagner, General Counsel, ARTstor

Sara Milne, CEO, Science and Media LLP

Catherine Draycott, Chair of BAPLA and Head of Medical Library, Wellcome Trust

Nick Poole, Director, MDA

Ben White, Copyright and Compliance Manager, British Library

The conference will provide a forum for our high profile expert
speakers and international representatives from the cultural, media,
education, commerce, Government as well as other interested sectors
to debate how to balance cultural and commercial interests. More
about the conference can be found at:
<http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/>http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/

This is a critical time for owners and users of cultural content.
Issues surrounding creative industries, technology and new media
together with discussions about Intellectual Property Rights are
being played out at the highest political levels and the landscape
has the potential to be reshaped dramatically. Cultural heritage
organisations need to embrace these developments and position
themselves to ensure that they are represented as a sector that
provides cultural content, free at the point of access, whilst
looking to the rights that they own themselves to develop models to
sustain their core activities and achieve high levels of service to
their commercial users. This conference will provide an exciting
forum to simulate debate and discussion about these key areas with
suppliers and users of cultural content set within one of the
foremost collections of art in the world.

<http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/programme.htm>http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/programme.htm

Registration for the conference has now opened at:
<http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/registration.htm>http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/registration.htm


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King's College London
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Connecting Culture and Commerce Conference: January 2007, National Gallery
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