ICOM General Conference, Vienna: Workshop for all Conference Participants:

Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights: the implications for Museums

Wednesday 22nd August 2007:  2pm - 5pm Room HS33, University of Vienna


PROGRAMME

2.00pm.  Patrick Boylan, Chairperson, Legal Affairs Committee:
Introduction

2.10pm.  Shawn van Slujs, Director, Canadian Association of Art Museum
Directors (CAMO), Ottawa: Introduction to his Research/Working Paper:
"Museums, Visual Arts and Copyright: An International Comparative Study"
prepared for the ICOM Legal Affairs Committee, CAMDO and the Canadian
Museums Association

2.50pm.  Cristina Manasse, Co-Chair of the Art, Cultural Institutions and
Heritage Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), Studio
Legale Rubini, Milan: "The role of the law and lawyers in relation to a
museums copyright and other intellectual property problems".

3.15pm.  BREAK

3.40pm.  Martin Skrydstrup, Department of Anthropology, Columbia
University, New York and Cultural Expert Consultant to the UNs World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO): The work of WIPO in relation to
intellectual property rights and their protection

4.00pm.  Daniel Winfree Papuga, Chairperson, ICOM International Committee
for Muesums of Ethnography, Papuga Consulting, Krokstadelva, Norway:
Museums and Intellectual Property: Individual or Universal Responsibility?

4.20pm.  Lief Pareli, Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, Sami Museum
Association and a representative of indigenous peoples in the work of
WIPO: The Sami Case: some experiences of working with indigenous material.

4.40pm.  Open Discussion on future ICOM policy and advice (N.B.  Because
of the limited time available contributions will be strictly limited to a
maximum of two minutes)


BACKGROUND TO THIS WORKSHOP

Copyright and other intellectual property rights are an increasingly
important concern of most if not all museums and related institutions and
organisations.  Museums hold large quantities of material and information
subject to a wide range of different intellectual property rights,
including copyright, some of which are owned by the museum along with the
objects concerned.  However, in many other cases the copyright may be held
independently, for example by the descendents of a dead artist.

Museums are also major users of potentially copyright material, used for
example as illustrations in exhibitions, catalogues, other publications or
reproductions. What can and should museums know and do in relation to
these possibly complicated areas?

Also, there is growing concern about the use and especially misuse of
traditional cultural expressions and traditional knowledge, particularly
though not exclusively of indigenous peoples.  There are also many issues
within these fields that are of equal concern from the ethical point of
view.

On the recommendation of the Legal Affairs Committee, the ICOM Executive
Council has agreed that ICOM needs to develop both and ICOM Policy on
Copyright and Intellectual Property Right, and should also provide
practical guidance to museums and museum professionals on these.

Organised by the ICOM Legal Affairs Committee with the support of the ICOM
Ethics Committee, and the ICOM International Committees for Museums of
Ethnography (ICME) and Museum Management (INTERCOM), this Workshop aims to
both provide very practical information and advice to professionals of all
specialisations, and through discussion help to develop an ICOM Policy on
these issues.


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(Prof.) Patrick J. Boylan
(Professor Emeritus, City University London)
(Chairperson, ICOM Legal Affairs Committee)

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