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The Tug of War between Faculty, University, and Publisher for Rights to the
Products of Contemporary Education

NEW YORK CITY Saturday, February 26, 2000
College Art Association Conference

Speaker Biographies and Abstracts:
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nyc.html

Session One: 9:30 - 12:00: Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street.
(Doors open 9:00am) In session one speakers will offer their presentations.

Session Two: 12:30 - 2:00: New York Hilton Hotel, 1335 Sixth Avenue,
(between 53 & 54th Streets) Session two will be devoted to discussion of
presentations offered in session one.

OPEN TO ALL (nominal session fee for non-conference attendees)
Call 212.691.1051 x206 for reservations.

Welcome:
Robert Baron, Independent Scholar and Chair CAA Intellectual Property
Committee.

Overview of Town Meetings Series:
David Green, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH).

Speakers:

Christine Sundt, Professor & Visual Resources Curator, University of
Oregon. Overview: The State of the Question Regarding Copyright, Fair Use
and Intellectual Property in the Arts.

Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic
Property Law Columbia University Law School. Issues concerning faculty
ownership of their intellectual property, an analysis of current cases.

Sanford Thatcher, Director, Pennsylvania State University Press. Issues of
ownership in the context of a University Press.

Rodney Petersen, Director of Policy and Planning in the Office of
Information Technology, University of Maryland. Managing electronic course
materials developed by academics and related university policy issues.
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Robert A. Baron
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