>> 2000 Town Meetings >> New York City
The Tug of War between Faculty,
University, and Publisher for Rights to the
Products of Contemporary Education
Saturday, February 26, 2000
College Art Association Conference
New York, NY
Jane Ginsburg
Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, has been a member of the Columbia Law School faculty since 1987. She teaches Legal Methods, Copyright Law, and Trademarks Law, and is the author or co-author of casebooks in all three subjects. Recent lectures and articles on domestic and international copyright subjects have explored the legal implications of electronic creation and distribution of works of authorship. Professor Ginsburg has taught French and U.S. copyright law and U.S. legal methods and contracts law at the University of Paris and other French universities. A graduate of the University of Chicago (BA 1976, MA 1977), she received a JD in 1980 from Harvard, and a Diplôme d'études approfondies in 1985 and a Doctorate of Law in 1995 from the University of Paris II.
Rodney Petersen
Rodney Petersen is the Director of Policy and Planning in the Office of Information Technology at the University of Maryland. He is also the founding director of Project NEThics, an organization within the University that promotes the responsible use of information technology through education and policy enforcement. In that capacity, he is responsible for providing educational programs for the campus community as well as ensuring compliance with campus policies and federal copyright laws. He also maintains the CopyOwn Web site, which is intended as a resource for the higher education community on copyright ownership issues. CopyOwn contains links to over 100 college and university copyright ownership policies and a number of related resources. A complementary site, CopyFair, contains a more limited collection of institutional policies that concern the use of copyrighted materials. He is a frequent speaker and consultant on issues of Internet law, policy, and ethics. He is also the former associate editor of the national periodical "SYNTHESIS: Law and Policy in Higher Education". He holds a law degree from Wake Forest University and is completing a doctorate in higher education policy, planning, and administration from the University of Maryland. For more biographical details, see http://www.oit.umd.edu/~rodney.
Christine Sundt
Christine Sundt, Professor & Visual Resources Curator, has been a member of the University of Oregon Library faculty since 1985. She is director of the Visual Resources Collection in the Architecture & Allied Arts Library and a frequent lecturer and instructor in topics ranging from visual resources management to copyright issues in the arts. Since 1983 she has been the Technology Editor of Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation. Recent lectures and publications have explored the needs of researchers, teachers, and students in the arts regarding visual literacy and access and the implications of copyright and fair use guidelines on libraries and archives. She has taught workshops at the University of Texas at Austin and most recently for the Getty Summer Institute. She graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and received her MA in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sanford G. Thatcher
Sanford G. Thatcher has been Director of the Penn State University Press since 1989. Before moving there, he was at Princeton University Press for 22 years, where he advanced to the position of Editor-in-Chief. Since 1972 he has been involved with the Copyright Committee of the Association of American University Presses, for most of the time as its chair. He has also served since 1974 on the Copyright Committee of the Association of American Publishers (and on its Campus Copyright Education Committee since its formation) and since 1992 on the Board of Directors of the Copyright Clearance Center. His articles about copyright and publishing issues have appeared mostly in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Journal of Scholarly Publishing. In 1999 the AAUP presented him with its Constituency Award for "outstanding service to the university press community." At Penn State he is serving currently on the Committee on Implementation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations and on the Task Force on Intellectual Property Policies and Procedures
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