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February 4, 1997

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PRESS RELEASE

TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES

THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART
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 generous grant
from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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