How
do I know whether something is protected by copyright? What is fair use
and how can I apply it? What copyright exceptions are available for
library or archival
use? How can I clear a copyright? How do I navigate and negotiate
licensing agreements? If you’ve asked yourself these questions, this
workshop is for you! Aimed at providing real-world applications within
the academic, archival, library, gallery and museum
environments, we will use relevant case studies to explore issues such
as educational and scholarly usage, securing academic publication rights
(including for online use), creative reuse, fair use guidelines, VARA
and moral rights, licensing from vendors and
rights holders, and the public domain. Participants will also be
introduced to tools and resources to help them and their constituents in
making decisions regarding appropriate use and dissemination of visual
media.
Can We Do That? Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media will
be taught by Cara Hirsch,
Deputy General Counsel at The Virtual Reality Company, a studio focused
on the creation of content for virtual reality film and other
experiences. At VRC, Cara oversees all intellectual property matters
relating to the company's business. She is the former
Associate General Counsel at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, where
she supported Guggenheim’s legal affairs in a wide variety of areas
including intellectual property. Prior to the Guggenheim, Cara was
Deputy General Counsel for Artstor, a nonprofit organization
whose mission is to use digital technology to enhance scholarship,
teaching, and learning in the arts, humanities and other fields. Among
her duties at Artstor, Cara collaborated in refining Artstor's
intellectual property and other legal strategies for the
organization. She also supervised the rights review and clearance
process for media collections in the Artstor Digital Library, a digital
image resource that makes available to nonprofit institutions over 1.7
million digital images in the arts, architecture,
humanities, and sciences. Cara also worked as an Associate at the law
firms of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Andrews Kurth LLP, where she
practiced in the field of intellectual property. She served as Co-Chair
of the Intellectual Property Rights Committee
of the Visual Resources Association from 2011-2014. Cara received her
J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and her B.A., with distinction, from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.