Dear Readers of MUSEUM-L:

The College Art Association Committee on Intellectual Property (CIP), in
association with the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
(NINCH), will sponsor an open question-and-answer forum on topics concerning
the application of intellectual property laws to teaching and scholarship,
academic publishing, distance education, new copyright legislation and related
issues.

Our panel of copyright experts and intellectual property authorities is
composed of 

1) Jeff Cunard (CAA's legal counsel),

2) Tyler Ochoa (Associate Professor at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, CA)
and 

3) Martha Kendall Winnacker (Executive Assistant for Planning and Policy 
Information Resources and Communications, University of California).

The panel will take questions from the floor and discuss issues raised by the
audience.  Its focus will be on subjects affecting artists, scholars and
teachers, and on copyright issues of others who work in arts-related fields --
including museums.

Here is opportunity to discuss the consequence of recent and forthcoming
legislation such as

1) the new Digital Millennia Copyright Act,
2) legislation for Distance Education, and
3) the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

Learn how will this new and forthcoming legislation affect teaching, artistic
creation and scholarship in the years to come?

Come and discuss problems that you have encountered in your work and those
related to the application of intellectual property to the visual arts in
general.  Subjects raised and topics discussed will be used to help establish
focus for the planned CAA Q&A Guide to Copyright and Intellectual Property.

This session will be held Thursday, February 11 from 12:30 to 2:00pm, in the
Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall, Room 405.  It is co-chaired by David
Green (NINCH) and Robert Baron (CAA-CIP).

Direct questions to 
Robert Baron
chair, CAA Committee on Intellectual Property
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