Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 137.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (441)
Subject: Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
[2] From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (244)
Subject: ACLU Sues over DMCA
[3] From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (189)
Subject: Center for Law, Technology & the Arts Opens
[4] From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (425)
Subject: Lessig on Copyright; IP Online Tutorials
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:05:47 -0400
From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
AMICO hosted by University of Toronto; new US office iFrom:
owner-ninch-announce@ninch.org [
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
August 1, 2002
Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
Research and Editorial Offices Move to The University of Toronto
Scott Sayre Appointed Director of Member Services
Kris Wetterlund Appointed Director of User Services
in AMICO's new US offices in Minneapolis
To: AMICO Announcements List <amico.announce@update.amico.org>
From: "J. Trant - AMICO Executive Director" <jtrant@amico.org>
Subject: [Asis-l] AMICO's move to University of Toronto
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:36:49 -0400
Art Museum Image Consortium
www.amico.org
Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia
AMICO Press Release
For Immediate Release: August 1, 2002.
AMICO Research and Editorial Offices
Move to The University of Toronto,
Robarts Research Library for the Humanities and Social Sciences
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is delighted to announce that the
University of Toronto has been selected as its new institutional host.
Beginning in the fall of 2002 the AMICO Research and Editorial Offices will
move to Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. The University of
Toronto was selected following an open Request for Proposals, issued in the
spring of 2002.
"We're delighted to be moving to the University of Toronto", says Jennifer
Trant, AMICO's Executive Director. "The diversity of academic computing
activities and the breadth of interest in AMICO from across university
departments bodes well for fruitful collaborations."
Carole Moore, University Librarian, concurred. "Our proposal to AMICO
demonstrated the diversity of activity at U of T. We're pleased to have
AMICO join the many other digital library initiatives within the University
of Toronto Library and across our campuses. We're excited not only to host
AMICO but to see AMICO as a partner in our many on-going activities."
The University of Toronto Library is in an ideal position to facilitate
collaboration across departments, as its mandate is wider than most,
including support and coordination of academic computing for instruction and
provision of access to digital resources for research and teaching. In the
words of U of T's outgoing Provost, Adel Sedra, the Library provides, "one
stop shopping for information and information technology." Through its
digital and print library resources, its Information Commons access
services, and its Resource Center for Academic Technology support for
teaching, the Library works with all faculties to integrate resources for
user convenience.
The University of Toronto, which is among the largest in North America, has
a strong entrepreneurial faculty culture and common interests in exploring
utilization of new media and technology. "We're looking forward to exploring
ties with the Museum Studies Program, the Faculty of Information Studies,
the Knowledge Media Design Institute and others across the Faculty of Arts
and Science and the School of Education," says David Bearman, AMICO's
Director of Strategy and Research. "The time is ripe to integrate networked
cultural heritage with research, teaching and learning across the
disciplines."
New Address:
Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
Robarts Library 7th Floor
University of Toronto
130 St George St.
Toronto, ON M5S 1A5
About AMICO
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a growing, independent non-profit
(501c3) corporation. Founded in 1997, the Consortium today is made up of
over 35 major museums in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
It's an innovative collaboration - not seen before in museums - that shares,
shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections
and enables its educational use. Membership is open to any institution with
a collection of art.
Together AMICO Members build The AMICO LibraryTM a compilation of multimedia
documentation of works in their collections. The 2002 edition of The AMICO
Library documents over 100,000 different works of art, from prehistoric
goddess figures to contemporary installations; new works are added annually.
More than simply an image database, AMICO Library works are fully documented
and may include curatorial text, detailed provenance information, multiple
views, and other related multimedia. Subscribers find The AMICO Library
valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with
the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference
sources.
The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to licensed subscribers
such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and museums. Over 3
million users on four continents include faculty, students, teachers, staff,
researchers, and public library patrons. Educational subscribers receive
access to The AMICO Library through one of our Distributors. A subscription
to The AMICO Library provides rights to use works for a broad range of
educational purposes. Potential Members and Subscribers may preview a
Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO Library, request a free trial from our
Distributors, and get further information at http://www.amico.org.
Contact Information
Jennifer Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium
Phone: +1 412 422 8533
Fax: + 1 412 291 1292
Email: info@amico.org
AMICO Members
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Institute of Chicago
Asia Society Gallery
Center for Creative Photography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Denver Art Museum
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library
George Eastman House
J. Paul Getty Museum
The Library of Congress
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louisiana State Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Muse d'art contemporain de Montral
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Canada
National Museums of Scotland
The Newark Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Terra Museum of American Art
Victoria & Albert Museum
Walker Art Center
The Walters Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
Membership is open: Join Us! See http://www.amico.org/join.html
-- ________ J. Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org jtrant@amico.org Fax: +1 412 291 1292 AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia ________ Register for the ASIST Annual Meeting: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM02/index.html _______ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l@asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l-- ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted; neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit.
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--[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:05:48 -0400 From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: ACLU Sues over DMCA
ACLU Sues over DMCA; Eldred v. Ashcroft - Oct 9From: owner-ninch-announce@ninch.org
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community July 30, 2002
ACLU Sues to overturn key portions of DMCA http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946266.html?tag=3Dfd_lede http://www.aclu.org/news/2002/n072502a.html
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Provisional Date Set for Eldred v. Ashcroft: October 9, 2002 http://www.supremecourtus.gov/index.html
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:54:54 +0200 From: amalyah keshet <akeshet@netvision.net.il> Subject: IP SIG: ACLU attempts to overturn key portions of DMCA To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 25, 2002, 9:00 AM PT
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright law. The suit asks a federal judge to rule that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is so sweeping that it unconstitutionally interferes with researchers' ability to evaluate the effectiveness of Internet filtering software.
By suing on behalf of a 22-year-old programmer who's researching the oft-buggy products, the civil liberties group hopes to prompt the first ruling that would curtail the DMCA's wide reach.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946266.html?tag=3Dfd_lede
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Provisional Date Set for Eldred v. Reno: October 9, 2002 http://www.supremecourtus.gov/index.html
The Supreme Court calendar indicates that the hearing over the constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act will take place October 9, 2002.
David Green ===========
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:04:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo@voicenet.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <cni-copyright@cni.org> Subject: Eldred v. Ashcroft on Oct. 9, 2002
I thought that some of you may be interested to know that Eldred v. Ashcroft will have an argument before the Supreme Court on October 9, 2002. See:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/22july20021430/www.supremecourtus.go v/oral_arguments/argument_calendars/monthlyargumentcaloctober2002.pdf
(Or, go to http://www.supremecourtus.gov/index.html, click on "Oral Arguments", click on "Argument Calendars", click on "Session Beginning October 7, 2002".)
<<SNIP>>
Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo@voicenet.com>
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--[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:05:49 -0400 From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Center for Law, Technology & the Arts Opens
Center for Law, Technology & the Arts OpensFrom: owner-ninch-announce@ninch.org
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community July 30, 2002
New Center for Law, Technology & the Arts Opens Case Western Reserve University http://lawwww.cwru.edu/academic/lta/intro.htm
I think the opening of this new Center at Case Western will be of some interest.
David Green ===========
A Unique Program: An Introduction from the Director
The ongoing technological revolution of recent years has presented new opportunities and challenges for our legal system pertaining to technological innovation and related proprietary rights. There have also been significant national and international legal and cultural developments in the visual and musical arts that offer their own opportunities and challenges. Law and technology and law and the arts are burgeoning fields that present some of the most exciting, important, and complex issues facing not only our legal system, but also the business and technology communities.
The Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts ("LTA") at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law was established to be an internationally recognized forum for the inter-disciplinary study of law, technology, and the arts. The Center for LTA focuses on teaching, research, and programs pertaining to intellectual property, technological innovation and technology transfer, the intersection of science, economics, philosophy, and the law, legal issues concerning biotechnology and computer technologies, and laws and cultural issues relating to the creative arts.
Students at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law have the opportunity to address some of today's most intriguing issues, such as the relationship between patent law and the sequencing of the human genome, copyright law's relevance to music and art on the Internet, the applicability of trademark law to domain names and metatags, and international issues relating to plundered art, biodiversity, and cultural property.
Craig Allen Nard Professor of Law Director, Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts
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--[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:05:50 -0400 From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Lessig on Copyright; IP Online Tutorials
Lessig on Copyright; IP Online Tutorials From: owner-ninch-announce@ninch.org
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community
Lessig on Re-Thinking Copyright "Copyright in the Balance" (Library Journal 15 Jul 2002) http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/
2002 UMUC Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002
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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:24:06 -0400 To: "Multiple recipients of ShelfLife" <shelflife-from-rlg@lists2.rlg.org> From: "RLG" <editors@notes.rlg.org> Subject: ShelfLife, No. 64 (25 July 2002)
ShelfLife, No. 64 (25 July 2002) ISSN 1538-4284
SHARPENING THE RHETORIC IN THE COPYRIGHT DEBATE Stanford University professor Lawrence Lessig says that the whole notion of what constitutes copyright violation has been misconstrued in the current debate:
"This simplistic notion of what copyright is and how people think about is weakening the debate substantially.
It's just not the case that copyright has ever been understood to mean that if you use a copyrighted work in a way unintended by the copyright owner that's 'theft.' Much more fundamentally, who are the real thieves out there? The public domain was supposed to be fed with new work beginning in 1998 that's been taken away from the public. It's been taken away by Congress legislating to extend the terms of existing copyrights. I think that is theft from the public as much as there is theft going on in other contexts.
The presumption about copyright is that it has always been a narrow protection against a commercial competitor. It has never been an entitlement for copyright owners to control the use of copyrighted work.
Libraries buy works and make them available to people in an way which copyright owners may not always like. But with new technologies, copyright owners now can control the use of copyrighted works. Copyright owners now just need to wrap content in digital form, and if a library tries to simply facilitate what it's always done, the library is branded a thief. That is a massive expansion of the power copyright owners have over their content. There needs to be a much better debate because the thing that's at stake here is the concentration and control over the future of our culture. People need to recognize how copyright has changed in a relatively short time -- 50 years -- and decide whether the values that marked the Constitution's framing are going to be valuable in the future."
(Library Journal 15 Jul 2002)
http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA2 31610&publication=libraryjournal
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2002 UMUC Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002
Three, three-week-long asynchronous online workshops on intellectual property issues faced by universities are being offered by the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College. Subscription costs $150 (discounts bavailable).
David Green ===========
Delivered-To: asis-l@asis.org From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@umuc.edu> To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: [Asis-l] 2002 IP in Academia Online Workshop Series Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:27:36 -0400
ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION *Please Distribute Widely*
2002 UMUC Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002
The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is hosting an asynchronous online workshop series that is of interest to faculty, university counsel, librarians, instructional design and information professionals. Each workshop will last approximately three weeks, providing the participants with an in-depth understanding of core intellectual property issues facing higher education.
* The Shrinking Public Domain September 16- October 4, 2002 Moderated by Laura (Lolly) Gasaway, Esq Director, Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
There is considerable concern among academics and copyright scholars that the public domain is being treated as a commodity, thereby resulting in the loss of access to users and others who appreciate great scholarly, literary, musical and audiovisual works. This workshop will explore this complex issue particularly as it relates to the use of digital information in the teaching and learning enterprise.
* Academic Integrity Compliance on College Campuses October 28 - November 15, 2002 Moderated by Diane M. Waryold, PhD Executive Director of Center for Academic Integrity, Program Administrator of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Fundamental to the mission of many schools is the concept of academic integrity. What role do campus and departmental policies play in student compliance? What is the role of faculty, librarians and students in assisting faculty and policy enforcement? And what are the various means for detecting plagiarism? What are the pros and cons of using these plagiarism detection services? Gain an in-depth understanding of the academic integrity issues facing higher education today
* Preventing Plagiarism in the Online and face-2-face Classrooms February 10-February 28, 2003 Moderated by Gary Pavela, Esq Director of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development at the University of Maryland-College Park
Can assignments be redesigned to avoid plagiarism in the online and face-to-face classrooms? Is the relationship of writer/reader to text profoundly changed online? Learn about proven, successful methods for designing assignments that will enhance learning and lessen plagiarism. Share your experience with fellow classmates and share successful assignments and methods.
These online workshops will include course readings, chats and online discussions. Participants will receive daily response and feedback from the workshop moderators. Please visit the web site for all course objectives: http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/workshops.html
Register early since space is limited. Early Registration is $125 each, Regular $150 each, Two workshops $225, Three workshops is only $300! A significant discount is given for full time graduate students until places are filled; please consult the website for details. To register online- www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002
For additional information call 301-985-7777 or visit our web site at www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002
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