Dear Colleagues - I would like you to know about a session scheduled for the upcoming College Art Association conference in New York City. This session, which will present CAA's strategy (Yes! It's happening) for the development of a fair use policy for the arts as well as scholarly publishing in the arts, is open to anybody -- you don't have to be registered for the conference to attend -- so please spread the word.

“Developing a Fair Use Code for the Visual Arts”

Date & Time: Saturday, February 16, 2013, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM

Location: New York Hilton, Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor

 

CAA is undertaking a grant-funded initiative to create a Fair Use Code in the visual arts that will address both scholarly publishing as well as the creation and exhibition of art works that incorporate other copyrighted materials. To develop the Code, CAA has formed a Task Force, co-chaired by Jeffrey Cunard, CAA Counsel, and Gretchen Wagner, ARTstor General Counsel and member of CAA's Committee on Intellectual Property. CAA also has engaged Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic at American University Washington College of Law, and Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor at the School of Communication at American University and the Director of the Center for Social Media, to assist in the project. Jaszi and Aufderheide have significant experience in developing fair use codes in a broad range of contexts, including for the International Communications Association, the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, dance archivists, documentary filmmakers, and the Association of Research Libraries, among others. Those codes have been critically important in helping those groups understand and articulate those areas in which, based on standards of good practice, fair use should apply.

 

This session will provide a detailed account the scope of the proposed Fair Use Code and the process envisioned by CAA for the creation of the Code, along with ways in which CAA members can provide feedback and input into the Code as it is being developed. In addition, the session will describe some of the other codes developed by Jaszi and Aufderheide, and the important developments resulting from the articulation of those codes.

 

The session will provide a valuable opportunity to hear from the CAA membership about its views on the value of developing a Code of Best Practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials in the visual arts. The Committee on Intellectual Property looks forward to hearing responses from audience members to this initiative and will take note of questions, concerns, and suggestions that are put forward.

 

Panelists: Peter Jaszi, Patricia Aufderheide, Jeffrey Cunard, Gretchen Wagner

 

Moderator: Christine Sundt