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TOWN MEETING on COPYRIGHT and FAIR USE
at College Art Association meeting in Toronto.

NOTICE:
The College Art Association, in conjunction with the National Initiative
for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) and the American Council of
Learned Societies (ACLS), with funding from 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.

For a detailed program and speakers' statements see
http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm

The Town Meeting will take place in two sessions:
==> 1) 12:30-2:00pm
==> 2) 5:30-7:00pm
Locations will be announced later.

The program will include the following speakers:

SESSION I:
==>David Green (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage) will
speak on current efforts to define copyright law for digital transmission
and use.

==>Gary Schwartz (Curators of Dutch Art) will speak on strategies scholars
may consider using to help obtain more wide-ranging privileges for their
use of images.

==>Peter Walsh (Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College) is
going to investigate the significance of the "copy" in today's
technological age, and will show how copyright law fails to acknowledge
what "copy" means in the visual arts.

SESSION II:
The second half of this two-part meeting will be devoted to a debate
between Max Anderson (Art Museum Image Consortium [AMICO] and American
Association of Museum Directors [AAMD]) and Howard Besser (University of
California, Berkeley) on intellectual property issues pertaining to AMICO
and similar site-licensing schemes that are poised to make museum images
available to academia.

IMPORTANT:
Readers of this notice (whether they plan to attend or not) are urged to
submit questions on the subject of site-licensing of museum images. Please
send your questions to Robert Baron.  Identify your questions by placing
"TTM:" at the start of the subject line:

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The "Town Meeting" is being coordinated by Robert Baron and Leila Kinney in
conjunction 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

==>Interested individuals who do not have web access
==>and who wish to receive the list of topics and
==>speaker statements may write for a text-only version.

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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 obtained directly from the College Art
Association or found at the CAA conference site:

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


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Town Meeting on Copyright and Digital Images:
February 26, Toronto with College Art Assn.
http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm
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Robert A. Baron
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