NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Program Offers New
Summer Graduate Course on Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues
Copyright Law for Cultural Institutions: July 25-August 5 2011
Instructor: Rina Pantalony
This two-week course addresses the intellectual property issues and
related ethical ones that surround the management, preservation, and
dissemination of cultural material (such as paper records and their
digital surrogates, museum objects, film, video, and other ephemera) in
collecting institutions. The course is designed primarily as a
professional development opportunity for those who already work with
cultural objects, providing either a refresher or an upgrade to existing
knowledge and practice.
Some of the questions to be addressed are: What are the various legal and
ethical rights that may encumber cultural material? How do these rights
affect the subsequent long-term exhibition of the works once they enter
into the collection of a museum or archive? How do we go about clearing
these rights, and can these issues be managed effectively over time? What
are the international considerations in dealing with content created in
one jurisdiction, but exhibited or distributed in another?
This course also has an online component. Students will be required to
analyze existing film, video, paper or other cultural material, examine
the intellectual property issues, present findings within existing
standards of practice in the field, and use electronic means of
communication (NYU Wikis, blog) to compare and contrast findings.
This is an intensive 3-credit graduate-level course taught at NYU's Tisch
School of the Arts. The course will meet in person from 9:00-12:00
Monday-Friday for the 2-week period from July 25-August 5, with an
additional hour of online activities each day. For more information about
the course and instructions on how to register, please visit:
http://cinema.tisch.nyu.edu/object/miap_summerCopyright.html .
Any questions can be directed to the MIAP Coordinator Alicia Kubes
(email: [log in to unmask] telephone: 212-998-1618).
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