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HEADLINE: PORTLAND: Speaker Biographies

 

Browne | Pallante-Hyun | Pantalony | Sturtevant | Vallières | Zorich

Rachelle V. Browne
Rachelle V. Browne is Assistant General Counsel at the Smithsonian Institution. She previously served as: staff attorney and attorney advisor at the Federal Trade Commission; Legal Counsel to the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Commerce and the U.S. Virgin Islands Port Authority; and Chief Counsel of the U.S. Virgin Islands Legislature. Ms. Browne was graduated from Barnard College and Harvard Law School. She is a member of the Massachusetts, District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands, Third Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court bars.

Her published articles include: "Privacy in the Virtual World and the Real Museum Experience," in Spectra, The Journal of the Museum Computer Network, Spring 2002; "Copyright Developments in 2000: Looking Back and Looking Forward in Intellectual Property," Section Newsletter, National Bar Association, Winter, 2001; "Music: Licenses, Permission Forms, and Releases in the Digital Age," in Hoffman, Barbara, Ed., Exploiting Images and Image Collections in the New Media (London: Kluwer Law International, 1999); "What Building Owners, Artists, and Their Lawyers Need to Know About the Visual Artists Rights Act," in ALI-ABA's Practice Checklist Manual for Drafting Leases II (1997) and "Copyright Corner," in Smithsonian Education Update (bi-monthly column, 1994 - 1997). Ms. Browne is a former Adjunct Professor for the Business of Art in the Department of Fine Arts, Howard University, and a past Chair of the D.C. Bar Arts, Entertainment and Sports Law Section.

Maria Pallante-Hyun
Maria A. Pallante-Hyun is the founding member of Pallante Hyun Group, LLC. A lawyer by training, she is formerly Associate General Counsel, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/Museum (headquartered in New York), where she managed intellectual property issues and related business affairs. She has also served as a senior policy advisor to the Register of Copyrights and the Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs, United States Copyright Office, (Washington, DC.). She has been Executive Director of the National Writers Union (New York) and Assistant Director and Staff Attorney of The Authors Guild/Authors League of America (New York). Ms. Pallante is a frequent speaker before museums and other educational and cultural organizations. She works in collaboration with various other professionals on a project-by-project basis. For further information, see http://www.pallantehyun.com/

Rina Elster Pantalony
Rina Elster Pantalony is Legal Counsel for the Canadian Heritage Information Network. She obtained her undergraduate and law degrees from Dalhousie University at Halifax, Canada. She is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and practiced commercial law in Toronto. After studying art history in Paris, Ms. Pantalony joined the Canadian government as an analyst in copyright and arts policy. From 1997 to 2000, Ms. Pantalony was Senior Policy Advisor to the Canadian Heritage Information Network on intellectual property matters. In 2001, she was appointed intellectual property counsel to a joint Internet venture launched by the Tate Gallery, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York and continued to work with the Museum of Modern Art on various commercial matters upon the dissolution of the partnership. In 2002, Ms. Pantalony joined the Canadian Department of Justice to represent the Canadian Heritage Information Network as General Counsel, carrying out her responsibilities by tele-commuting from her office at the Canadian Consul General, New York. She has published and spoken extensively on intellectual property issues affecting cultural heritage.

David Sturtevant
David Sturtevant is currently head of the Collections Information and Access department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Sturtevant is responsible for the collections management systems (including the collections management database, imaging, and intellectual property). In the past year, SFMOMA has launched the internal web-based collections database, the implemented new imaging procedures and systems for asset management, and developed an intellectual property policy and the related process for acquiring non-exclusive copyright licenses from artists and their estates. Before moving to San Francisco, Mr. Sturtevant spent a year working with a small consulting firm in Boston where his responsibilities were focused on the development of systems of information sharing and communication. Prior to that, Mr. Sturtevant worked for three years at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as an intellectual property specialist.

Nicole Vallières
Nicole Vallières joined the McCord Museum of Canadian History in 1989, and quickly established a computerized collections management service, supervised the digitization of the Museum's collections, and set up an on-line database of some 20,000 photographic documents. Since 1995, she has been Director of the Collections and Information Management division, and among her responsibilities is management of the "Laurier Project", which focuses on the development of curriculum-linked teaching resources drawn from the Museum's collections. Active in the provincial museum community for many years, Ms. Vallière has contributed towards the development of the Quebec-wide museum network Info-Muse, both as a founding member (1990) and as its president (1995 to 1998). She sits on a number of national and international professional committees, including the scientific committee for the "Rencontres francophones - nouvelles technologies et institutions muséales" conferences, held in Dijon in 1998, Montreal in 1999 and Brussels in 2000. Nicole Vallières holds a diploma in computer studies, an M.A. in art history and a Ph.D. in ethnology from the Université Laval in Quebec City.

Diane Zorich
Diane M. Zorich is an information management consultant for cultural organizations, specializing in the planning and delivery of cultural information over digital networks. Her clients include the J. Paul Getty Trust, The Huntington Art Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Association of Museums, and many other cultural organizations and institutions. Earlier, she was Data Manager at the Association of Systematics Collections in Washington, D.C., and Documentation Manager at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. She served as past President and Board Member of the Museum Computer Network, and currently serves as Chair of this organization's Intellectual Property SIG. Ms. Zorich has published and lectured extensively on issues related to network access to cultural information. She is the author of Introduction to Managing Digital Assets: Options for Cultural and Educational Organizations (1999, The J. Paul Getty Trust), and was project manager for A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark (1999, American Association of Museums). Her forthcoming publication, Developing Intellectual Property Policies in Museums (2003, Canadian Heritage Information Network/NINCH) will be out this Spring. Ms. Zorich holds graduate degrees in anthropology and museum studies from New York University, and is based in Princeton, NJ.