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HEADLINE: Working Group Planning Sheet

Date: March 23, VRA-ARLIS Conference, St. Louis, MO
Contact: Roger Lawson (National Gallery/ARLIS); Kathe Albrecht (American U/VRA)

Audience: Visual arts resources staff, faculty and librarians
Themes: Public Domain & Licensing
Speakers: Michael Shapiro (USPTO); Mary
Case (ARL); Jeffrey Cohen (Bryn Mawr); Mary Case (ARL); Robert Clarida (ArtSTOR); Tony Gill (RLG)

Date: July, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Contact: Mairead Martin, Director, Advanced Internet Technologies, University of Tennessee
Audience: TBD
Themes: Digital Rights, Management Tools
Speakers: Cliff Lynch (CNI); Grace Agnew (Rutgers)

Date: September 7, Museum Computer Network Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Contact: Len Steinbach, President MCN (CIO, Cleveland Museum)
Audience: Museum information professionals
Themes: International Issues, Globalization and the Public Interest
Speakers: TBD

Date: September 30, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Contact: Robert Kolker, Chair School of Literature, Communication and Culture
Audience: Faculty, students, Producers, librarians, archivists
Themes: Media: Film & Dance Issues
Speakers: TBD

Date: TBD, World Bank and American University, Washington, DC (Tentative)
Contact: Eleanor Fink, World Bank; Peter Jaszi, AU
Audience: TBD
Themes: International Issues, Globalization and the Public Interest
Speakers: Martha Winnacker

Date: TBD, University of California System, San Francisco
Contact: Martha Winnacker, Office of the President
Audience: University administrators, faculty, librarians
Themes: Policy, Implementation


Themes:

  • Introduction: Legislative Background & Update
    Policy: Institutional Copyright Policy
  • Implementation; Faculty ownership of rights; Fair Use
    International Issues: Globalization & Harmonization; what we need to know; international public interest concerns

Members of Copyright Town Meetings Working Group

  • Mary Case, Association of Research Libraries
  • Robert Baron, College Art Association
  • Marta Teegen, College Art Association
  • Kathe Albrecht, Visual Resources Association
  • Eileen Goldspiel, American Association of Museums
  • Christine Sundt, Visual Resources Association
  • Sandy Thatcher, Association of American University Presses.
  • Advisers: Kenneth Crews, University of Indiana; Georgia Harper, University of Texas; Martha Winnacker, University of California.