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Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=10061, phase=CONNECT, target=127.0.0.1:2306). The server is probably not started. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Forwarded from the NINCH list. >>> "David L. Green" <[log in to unmask]> 05/09/00 05:59am >>> 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. * * * 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 as well as at her own website, . 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. * * * 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 ========================== 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. 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