Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 204.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:30:24 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NYC, Sept 24, 2001
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August 29, 2001
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NINCH and The New York Public Library
in association with
The Frick Collection, New York University Libraries and
New York University Information Technology Services
present:
NEW YORK CITY COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING
"Intellectual Property & Multimedia in the Digital Age"
Monday September 24: New York Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Fifth Avenue at 42nd St
8:30am-5:00pm
http://www.nypl.org/research/copyright/index.html
* * * Free of Charge * * *
ONLINE REGISTRATION (Sept 10 Deadline):
http://www2.nypl.org/home/copyright/registration.cfm
This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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The fourth in the 2001 series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS is to be
held at the Celeste Bartos Forum in the New York Public Library (Fifth
Avenue at 42nd Street) on Monday September 24 from 8:30am until 5pm.
Two keynote speakers Professor Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law,
American University) and Linda Tadic (Manager of the Digital Library, Home
Box Office) will explore issues arising for non-profit cultural
institutions as they manage and use multimedia digital cultural material in
an online environment. Following each of their presentations, Jaszi and
Tadic will moderate a panel of experts in the field to discuss issues from
the points of view of owners and users of digital assets.
The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings balance expert opinion and audience
participation on the basics of copyright law, the implications of copyright
online, recent changes in copyright law and practice, and practical issues
related to the networking of cultural heritage materials. The program will
include plenty of time for audience questions, comments and discussion.
Register online at http://www2.nypl.org/home/copyright/registration.cfm
For information on all the NINCH 2001 Copyright Town meetings, see
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/2001.html
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Themes
The copyright-related issues of managing and using digital mutimedia online
are some of the thorniest that administrators, lawyers, scholars, curators,
teachers, artists and others have to face today. The Napster case
powerfully demonstrated the need for re-thinking business practices in
response to online music listeners. Meanwhile, and a little more quietly,
film and dance scholars among others are finding it a nightmare to clear
permissions for publishing multimedia CDs or websites. With a specific
focus on the multimedia issues presented by music, dance, moving images and
sound recordings, this Copyright Town Meeting will bring together copyright
lawyers, and representatives from non-profit and for-profit enterprises to
clarify the issues and to chart ways forward for those confronted by the
practical problems of working on the Internet with cultural heritage materials.
Issues to be covered will include:
* copyrighting compilation works;
* clearing rights and permissions;
* limits and possibilities of fair use of multimedia online;
* legal protection for encryption;
* publicity and privacy rights;
* the impact of Napster on for-profit and non-profit enterprises
* what non-profits and for-profits can learn from each other in the
copyright arena
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Speakers
Two keynote speakers will address the issues of non-profits as
rightsholders and as users of digital multimedia material. Professor Peter
Jaszi (Washington College of Law, American University) will speak on
"non-profits as rightsholders" while Linda Tadic (Manager of the Digital
Library, Home Box Office) will address "non-profits as users."
Peter Jaszi teaches at the Washington College of Law of The American
University, in Washington, D.C., where he directs the new Glushko-Samuelson
Intellectual Property Clinic and the Program on Intellectual Property and
the Public Interest. Professor Jaszi is a graduate of Harvard College and
Harvard Law School, and an experienced copyright litigator who lectures
frequently to professional groups in the United States and abroad.
Linda Tadic is the Manager of the Digital Library at HBO. Ms. Tadic was the
Digital Projects Coordinator at the Getty Research Institute. Prior to this
position, she was Director of the Media Archives and Peabody Awards
Collection at the University of Georgia. In 1998-1999, she was President of
the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA).
PANEL ONE
Professor Jaszi will moderate a panel on "Intellectual Property Owners in
the Digital Environment," with the following speakers:
* Ryan Craig, a business development consultant, lawyer and co-founder of
Fathom, is currently with Warburg Pincus, the international private equity
firm, where he invests in and works with education and training companies.
At McKinsey & Company, Mr. Craig advised top management in the music,
video, cable, telecommunications and Internet industries on strategic and
operational projects.
* Adam Eisgrau, Principal and Director of The Wexler Group, was Judiciary
Committee Counsel to Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) (1993-1995) and then
the First legislative Counsel for the American Library Association
(1995-1999), where he served as principal domestic and international
lobbyist on intellectual property issues as the world wrestled with the
reform of IP law for the Internet
age. Eisgrau also was a primary organizer and media spokesperson for the
Digital Future Coalition.
* Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he served
as the first Director of the Digital Library Federation (1997-1999), and as
Associate University Librarian at Yale University (1993-1997). In
1995-1996, he co-chaired the Task Force of the Commission of Preservation
and Access and the Research Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital
Information, and was the editor and a principal author of the
groundbreaking Task Force Report.
PANEL TWO
Linda Tadic will then moderate a panel on "Intellectual Property Users in
the Digital Environment," with the following speakers:
* Hank Barry, interim CEO at Napster (May 2000 to July 2001) is a partner
at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. He serves as a director of Sensoria
Corporation and of Napster, Inc. He received his law degree in 1983 from
Stanford University, where he was managing editor of the Stanford Law
Review and currently serves on the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School.
* Howard Besser is an Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Education
and Information Studies where he teaches courses and does research on
multimedia, image databases, digital libraries, metadata standards,
intellectual property, digital longevity,information literacy, and the
social and cultural impact of new information technologies. He was a
member of the National Academy of Science panel that authored "The Digital
Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age."
* Robert Kolker is Chair of the School of Literature, Communication, and
Culture at The Ivan Allen College at Georgia Tech. He is author of "A
Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman. Third,
revised edition, July 2000; Film, Form and Culture. With accompanying
CD-ROM. New York: McGraw-Hill, October, Second Edition, August, 2001; The
Films of Wim Wenders, with Peter Beicken. Cambridge University Press,
December, 1992; Bernardo Bertolucci. London: British Film Institute Books.
June, 1985; New York: Oxford University Press. October, 1985. 258 pp.; The
Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema. New York: Oxford
University Press. January, 1983. 425 pp. Now online at
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rkolker/AlteringEye/. He and colleague Janet
Murray have recently been awarded an NEH Grant to do a digital, annotated
edition of Casablanca.
* * *
Registration (Sept 10 DEADLINE)
Thanks to support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, participation in the
town meetings is free of charge. However, seating is limited and early
registration is advised. Please register online
at http://www2.nypl.org/home/copyright/registration.cfm. Registration
deadline: Monday September 10.
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Local committees have organized the town meetings, which have been
coordinated and reviewed by the NINCH Town Meetings Working Group. The
Copyright Town Meetings series is a component of the NINCH Copyright
Education Program, organized by the NINCH Advocacy Working Group.
NYC LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Patricia Barnett
Andrew W. Mellon Librarian, The Frick Collection
Jacqueline F. Bausch
Deputy General Counsel, The New York Public Library
Daniel Dex
Associate Counsel, The New York Public Library
Heike Kordish
Deputy Director, The Research Libraries,
The New York Public Library
Madeleine Nichols
Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Collection,
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Robert J. Vanni
General Counsel, The New York Public Library
Jennifer Vinopal
Coordinator, Studio for Digital Projects & Research
New York University Libraries
Matthew Zimmerman
Humanities Computing Specialist,
New York University Information Technology Services
NINCH TOWN MEETINGS WORKING GROUP:
Kathe Albrecht, American University/Visual Resources Association
Mary Case, Association of Research Libraries
Robert Baron, Independent Scholar
Kenneth Crews, Indiana University
Georgia Harper, University of Texas
Christine Sundt, University of Oregon/Visual Resources Association/NINCH BOARD
Marta Teegen, College Art Association
Sanford Thatcher, Pennsylvania State University Press/Association of
American University Presses
Peter Walsh, College Art Association Committee on Intellectual Property
Patricia Williams, Americans for the Arts
Martha Winnacker, University of California
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