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        From:   Robert A. Baron [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
        Sent:   Thursday, January 28, 1999 9:40 PM
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        Subject:        CAA Intellectual Property Program for LA

        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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