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TOWN MEETING on COPYRIGHT and FAIR USE

NOTICE:
The College Art Association, in association with the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation, will present its final "Town Meeting" on the Fair Use of
Digital Images on Thursday, February 26, 1998, during its 86th annual
conference, at the Royal York Hotel, 100 Front Street, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.

The program will include the following speakers:

David Green   (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage)
Gary Schwartz (Curators of Dutch Art)
Peter Walsh   (Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College)
Maxwell Anderson
              (Art Museum Image Consortium and
               American Association of Museum Directors)
Howard Besser (University of California, Berkeley)

The program is being coordinated by Robert Baron and Leila Kinney along
with the College Art Association.

For detailed information, including a list of topics and statements by the
speakers, refer to

http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm

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The second half of this two-part meeting will be devoted to a debate
between Max Anderson and Howard Besser on intellectual property issues
pertaining to AMICO and similar licensing schemes which promise to make
museum images available to academia.

Readers of this notice (whether they plan to attend or not) are urged to
submit questions for this session in advance of the meeting. Please send
your questions to Robert Baron.  Kindly identify your questions by placing
"TTM:" at the start of the subject line:

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For more information about the 1998 Conference, consult the CAA conference
website:

http://www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/1998/index.html

or contact Mary-Beth Shine: (212) 691-1051
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Registration information can be found at the CAA conference site:

http://www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/1998/registration.html


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Robert A. Baron
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