The following may
appeal to those interested in copyright and IPR of implications of digital image
collections
Dan
[Kindly
excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice. It results from multiple
postings.]
ANNOUNCEMENT and INVITATION:
The Committee on
Intellectual Property of the College Art Association (CAA), in
conjunction with the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
(NINCH), wishes to announce the program for the forthcoming fifth annual
Copyright Town Meeting devoted to the topic of intellectual property in
academe.
Scheduled as part of the upcoming Conference of the College Art
Association (Chicago, February 28-March 3; see http://www.collegeart.org), the Town Meeting
will be held Saturday, March 3, 2001 in two sessions: 9:30-noon for
presentations, and 12:30-2:00 for discussion. The sessions are
open to all -- to registered conference attendees and to unregistered
individuals who purchase a single-session ticket at the
conference.
Detailed information about the program, attendance,
the speakers, their topics and more may be found at the following
location:
http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm
THEME:
This fifth edition of the
annual NINCH/CAA Copyright Town Meeting is devoted to intellectual property that
has been specifically prepared to be licensed for educational and scholarly use.
It concerns the distribution of copyrighted and other materials especially
crafted to meet the current and emerging needs of university artists and of art
historians, among others. The presenters will be given opportunity to explain
how their products can alter, improve, or re-create the methods of education and
research. The speakers have been asked to discuss how their services and
products specifically help fulfill educational and scholarly missions in ways
that unlicensed collections typically do not or can not.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS:
SASKIA is a traditional
art-history slide resource that is working to transform its catalogue and
methods from analog distribution to digital and, in the process is inventing new
formats and licensing products.
AMICO is a highly regarded
repository and resource of digital images for educational use. AMICO offers
institutional subscriptions to its expanding library.
QUESTIA is
an innovative effort to provide indexed digital access to tens of thousands of
published works used in undergraduate humanities education.
Not
presenting, but sitting on the Q&A panel during the second half of the
program will be a representative from the Academic Image Cooperative
(AIC), a unique program engaged in collecting public domain and otherwise
legally unencumbered images for eventual use by art historians, among
others.
In addition, Robert Panzer, the executive director of the Visual
Artists Gallery Association (VAGA) will discuss his organization's role
as licensing agency for artists and the means by which VAGA serves scholarly and
educational interests alongside commercial ones. In addition Mr. Panzer is a
member of the CAA Committee on Intellectual Property (CIP).
Finally, Tom
Bower, a member of the intellectual property group of the National Museum of
American History and the Committee on Intellectual Property of the College
Art Association (CIP), will dissect the process by which educators and scholars
request permission to publish images. The purpose of this exercise is to
increase the likelihood of applicants obtaining favorable treatment and
receiving the traditional benefits extended to scholars.
PARTICIPATING
INDIVIDUALS:
Co-chairs: David Green (NINCH) and Robert
Baron (CAA Committee on Intellectual Property)
Renate
Wiedenhoeft, SASKIA Cultural Documentation, Ltd. (http://www.saskia.com)
Jennifer Trant,
Executive Director, Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) (http://www.amico.org)
Carol Hughes, Director
of Collections Management, Questia Media, Inc. (http://www.questia.com)
Robert Panzer, Visual
Artists and Galleries Association (VAGA) (mailto:rpanzer.vaga@erols.com)
Thomas
W. Bower, Deputy Registrar, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D. C. (http://americanhistory.si.edu)
Max Marmor,
Director, Yale Art Library, for The Academic Image Cooperative (AIC), (http://www.clir.org/diglib/collections/aic.htm)
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION:
For additional information and questions contact Marta
Teegan at the College Art Association (mailto:mteegen@collegeart.org) or Robert Baron
(mailto:robert@studiolo.org)
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Robert A. Baron
http://www.studiolo.org
