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TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES

THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART, New
York City

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1997, 9:30-4:30

Fair Use of Digital Images, the first in a series of town
meetings
co-sponsored by the College Art Association and the American
Council of
Learned Societies, will take place on Sunday, February 16,
from 9:30 to
4:30 at Cooper Union's Great Hall, 1 Cooper Square. This
first town meeting
follows the 85th annual College Art Association conference at
the New
York Hilton, February 12-15, 1997.

What can artists, curators, librarians, and scholars do with
digital
images? Although technologies of digital networks open the
door to many new
possibilities, copyright law will also play a critical role
in shaping
what we can do. The purpose of this first town meeting is to
allow wide
discussion of what is "fair use" of digital images.

Digital networks pose many new challenges for copyright law.
This is
particularly so with regard to images, which may now be
easily digitized
and accessed from remote locations. Who will hold the rights?
What will
be "fair use" (a key concept in copyright law) of such
images? Who will have to pay for
what? This town meeting will explore these issues, putting a
particular
focus on guidelines recently drafted by the Conference on
Fair Use (CONFU),
which are proposed for wide endorsement by organizations and
will have
implications for all users, creators, and rights holders. In
short, how can we all
live together?

This is first in a series of town meetings made possible by a

generousgrant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For a schedule of speakers and topics, go to
        http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/caatown.htm