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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
May 9, 2000
NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS
New York City Meeting Report Available
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nyc.report.html
Baltimore Meeting: May 18, 2000
American Association of Museums Annual Conference
"Copyright Confusion? Community Guides.
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/aam.html
A report is now available on the third in the NINCH series of six
town meetings on COPYRIGHT & THE CULTURAL COMMUNITY, held in
New York City. This report joins those on the first two town meetings,
held at the Chicago Historical Society and at Syracuse University.
Reports on the meetings held at the Triangle Research Libraries Network
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and at the Visual Resources Association
conference in San Francisco, will be available shortly.
The last meeting in the series will be held on Thursday May 18 from
2pm to 4:45pm at the annual convention of the American Association of
Museums at the Baltimore Convention Center (Rooms 321-323).
Please Note: Members of the public wishing to attend the Baltimore
Town Meeting but not registered for the AAM Convention should leave
their names (by eob Tues. May 16) at 202-296-5346, or email them to
[log in to unmask] for free admission to the town meeting.
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NEW YORK CITY: "The Tug of War between Faculty, University, and
Publisher for Rights to the Products of Contemporary Education."
A report is now available on the NEW YORK CITY COPYRIGHT & FAIR
USE TOWN MEETING, co-sponsored by the College Art Association and
held at its annual conference, February 26, 2000. This was the third in
this series of six town meetings on COPYRIGHT & THE CULTURAL
COMMUNITY, organized by NINCH, with support from the Samuel H.
Kress Foundation.
The opening paper by Christine Sundt, "Been There. Done That!,"
reviewing the community's history of wrestling with intellectual
property issues over the past five years is available at
<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nycsundt.html> as well
as at her own website,
<http://libweb.uoregon.edu/aaa/vrc/CAAcls.htm>.
Three speakers engaged the topic of the ownership of university
faculty production. Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of
Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia University Law School,
focused on two current cases that test the extent to which professors
have the right and the ability to control the dissemination of their
classroom performances. Sanford Thatcher, Director of the
Pennsylvania State University Press, reviewed the success of a
Pennsylvania State University task force to create guidelines to
clarify ownership issues on campus. Rodney Petersen, Director of
Policy and Planning at the University of Maryland's Office of
Information Technology, shared his discoveries about intellectual
property policies at research universities, and, based on his campus
experiences, advised focusing on parties' needs and interests rather
than gross ownership of intellectual property.
Questions, comments and discussion were far-ranging, including the
issues of museums' ownership of copyright, the "Ditto.com" case,
distance education, licensing, and the familiar issue of the legality
of copy photography.
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BALTIMORE: "Copyright Confusion? Community Guides"
BALTIMORE: Thursday May 18, 2000
American Association of Museums Annual Conference
"Copyright Confusion? Community Guides.
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/aam.html
In the light of the failure of CONFU to produce guidelines accepted
across the community for the fair use of copyrighted material, and as
copyright issues continue to become increasingly complicated for
practitioners, new guidelines are being produced from within the
community to help answer many practical questions about managing and
using online intellectual property. This Town Meeting will focus on
the resource materials that have been developed by the American
Association of Museums, the College Art Association and the Visual
Resources Association to provide guidance on managing intellectual
property. What questions do these guides answer and what guidance
do they offer? What more is still needed by this community? What other
practical resources are available? In the tradition of a town meeting
there will be plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion.
A G E N D A
Welcome and Brief Overview of Current Scene:
* Barry Szczesny, Government Affairs Counsel and Assistant Director,
Government and Public Affairs, American Association of Museums
* Michael Shapiro, Private Attorney and Consultant to Arts and
Cultural Organizations
Overview of Town Meetings Series:
* David Green, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
(NINCH).
Speakers:
AAM's "Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark"
* Diane Zorich, Information Management Consultant
VRA's "Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images
in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections"
* Kathe Albrecht, Visual Resources Curator, American University
CAA's work-in-progress, the "Guidebook on Copyright for Artists and
Art Historians"
* Robert Baron, Independent Art Historian and Consultant
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ABOUT THE NINCH COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE TOWN MEETINGS
With support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the National
Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage is sponsoring a series
of six Copyright Town Meetings for the cultural community during the
year 2000.
The series of day-long and half-day meetings builds on the popular
1997-98 Town Meetings on Copyright & Fair Use, organized jointly with
the American Council of Learned Societies and the College Art
Association, which focused on the Conference on Fair Use and its
aftermath.
The 2000 series of Town Meetings will be held in Chicago, Syracuse,
New York City, Chapel Hill, San Francisco and Baltimore and will be
hosted by the Chicago Historical Society, Syracuse and Cornell
Universities, the College Art Association, the Triangle Research
Library Network (North Carolina), the Visual Resources Association
and the American Association of Museums.
Issues to be covered by the meetings include changes in copyright law
as it affects working on-line; fair use and its on-line future; the
status of the public domain; ownership and access of on-line
copyrighted material; distance education; and the development and
implementation of institutional and organizational copyright policies
and principles.
A hallmark of the Town Meetings will be the balance of expert opinion
and audience participation. Speakers include, among others: Robert
Baron, Howard Besser, Kathleen Butler, Kenneth Crews, Eric Eldred,
Jane Ginsburg, Dakin Hart, Peter Hirtle, Tyler Ochoa, Rodney
Petersen, Christine Sundt, Barry Szczesny, Sandy Thatcher, Richard
Weisgrau and Diane Zorich.
For full details on the Town Meetings, including information about
registration and any admission fees, agendas and speakers as they are
announced, as well as for later reports on the meetings, see
<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/2000.html>
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