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Date: 1/26/99 4:48 PM
RE: COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS RESUME WITH CAA MEETING
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
January 26, 1999
COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS RESUME WITH CAA MEETING
Thursday, February 11 (12:30-2pm): Los Angeles Convention Center
The Copyright/Fair Use Town Meetings resume with the first of the 1999
series taking the form of a series of questions-and-answers on the
application of copyright law to teaching, scholarship and publishing. The
impact of the recent spate of copyright-related legislation will sure to be
a major element of this session.
David Green
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>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0500
>From: "Robert A. Baron" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Q&A Copyright Session at College Art Asn meeting February
>
>The College Art Association Committee on Intellectual Property (CIP), in
>association with the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
>(NINCH), will sponsor an open question-and-answer forum on topics concerning
>the application of intellectual property laws to teaching and scholarship,
>academic publishing, distance education, new copyright legislation and related
>issues.
>
>Our panel of copyright experts and intellectual property authorities is
>composed of
>
>1) Jeff Cunard (CAA's legal counsel),
>
>2) Tyler Ochoa (Associate Professor at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, CA)
>and
>
>3) Martha Kendall Winnacker (Executive Assistant for Planning and Policy
>Information Resources and Communications, University of California).
>
>The panel will take questions from the floor and discuss issues raised by the
>audience. Its focus will be on subjects affecting artists, scholars and
>teachers, and on copyright issues of others who work in arts-related fields.
>
>Here is opportunity to discuss the consequence of recent and forthcoming
>legislation such as
>
>1) the new Digital Millennia Copyright Act,
>2) legislation for Distance Education, and
>3) the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
>
>Learn how will this new and forthcoming legislation affect teaching, artistic
>creation and scholarship in the years to come?
>
>Come and discuss problems that you have encountered in your work and those
>related to the application of intellectual property to the visual arts in
>general. Subjects raised and topics discussed will be used to help establish
>focus for the planned CAA Q&A Guide to Copyright and Intellectual Property.
>
>This session will be held Thursday, February 11 from 12:30 to 2:00pm. Consult
>your CAA program guides for the exact location. It is co-chaired by David
>Green (NINCH) and Robert Baron (CAA-CIP).
>
>Members of the Visual Resources Association who have not registered for the
>College Art Association Conference are invited to attend.
>
>Direct questions to
>Robert Baron
>chair, CAA Committee on Intellectual Property
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