----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Forwarded from the NINCH list. Judy -------------Forwarded Message----------------- From: David Green, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] To: Multiple recipients of list, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] Date: 2/6/98 10:58 AM RE: ANNOUNCEMENT: Town Meeting on Copyright & Fair Use NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 6, 1998 LAST IN CURRENT SERIES OF TOWN MEETINGS ON COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE CAA Conference, Toronto, Feb 26, 1998 Below is a notice on the last in the current series of "Copyright & Fair Use" town meetings organized by the College Art Association, the American Council of Learned Societies and NINCH, with funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. A future series of copyright education town meetings will be announced in the next few months. David Green >Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 01:31:44 -0500 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: "Robert A. Baron" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Town Meeting on Copyright & Fair Use TOWN MEETING on COPYRIGHT and FAIR USE NOTICE: The College Art Association, in association with the American Council on Learned Societies and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, with funding provided by 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 ===== 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: <[log in to unmask]> ===== For more information about the 1998 Conference, consult the CAA conference website: or contact Mary-Beth Shine: (212) 691-1051, <[log in to unmask]>. Registration information can be found at the CAA conference site: ================================= Robert A. Baron mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org [log in to unmask] 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to <[log in to unmask]>. ==============================================================