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TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES

NINCH ANNOUNCE
February 5, 1997

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TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES

THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1997, 9:30-4:30

FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES, the first in a series of town meetings co-sponsored by The College Art Association, The American Council of Learned Societies and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, will take place on Sunday, February 16, from 9:30 to 4:30 at Cooper Union's Great Hall, 1 Cooper Square. This first town meeting follows the 85th annual College Art Association conference at the New York Hilton, February 12-15, 1997.

What can artists, curators, librarians, and scholars do with digital images? Although technologies of digital networks open the door to many new possibilities, copyright law will also play a critical role in shaping what we can do. The purpose of this first town meeting is to allow wide discussion of what is "fair use" of digital images.

Digital networks pose many new challenges for copyright law. This is particularly so with regard to images, which may now be easily digitized and accessed from remote locations.

• Who will hold the rights?
• What will be "fair use" (a key concept in copyright law) of such images?
• Who will have to pay for what?

This town meeting will explore these issues, putting a particular focus on proposed guidelines recently drafted by the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), which are proposed for wide endorsement by organizations and will have implications for all users, creators, and rights holders. In short, how can we all live together?

In addition to CAA and ACLS, The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is participating in sponsoring what will be a series of town meetings around the country, which are made possible by a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES

FEBRUARY 16, 1997, 9:30-4:30

GREAT HALL AT COOPER UNION

MORNING SESSION 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

• WELCOMING REMARKS: Susan Ball, Executive Director, College Art Association
• INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUES:
  Moderators: Pat Williams, Vice President, Programs and Policy, American Association of Museums;
  David Green, Executive Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
• LEGAL INTRODUCTION TO COPYRIGHT: Barbara English, University of Maryland
• PRESENTATION OF PREDICAMENTS:
  • Leila Kinney, Art Historian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Lyndel King, Director, Weisman Art Museum
  • Nancy Macko, Artist, Scripps College
• OUTLINE OF PROPOSED CONFU GUIDELINES FOR FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES:
  Cameron Kichin, American Association of Museums

   

LUNCH - 12:30-1:30 p.m.

AFTERNOON SESSION 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

• EXPLORING THE ISSUES: Susan Ball and Pat Williams, Moderators
• GENERAL ISSUES/TOPICS
  • Copyright Education - Kenneth Crews, Indiana University
  • Liability - Adam Eisgrau, American Library Association, Digital Futures Coalition
  • Artists' Rights - Ted Feder, Artists Rights Society
  • Copy Photography - Macie Hall, Johns Hopkins University
  • Site Licensing - Geoffrey Samuels, MLC Development
• PRACTICAL USE OF WEB SITES
  • Annette Weintraub, Artist, City University of New York
  • Elizabeth Schmidt, Colonial Williamsburg
  • Kathy Cohen, Art Historian, San Jose State University

     

  Web Announcement courtesy of Christine Sundt

   

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