The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF)
<http://www.vrafoundation.org/> is pleased to announce that registration is
now live for Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media
<http://vrafoundation.org.s119319.gridserver.com/index.php/regional_workshops/intellectual_property_at_pacific_northwest_college_of_art/>,
which will be held in on Thursday, March 30, 2017 at this Pacific Northwest
College of Art (PNCA). This workshop will be co-hosted by the PNCA and the
University of Oregon Libraries, and is open to cultural heritage
professionals, the information and educational communities, and to anyone
interested in visual culture. For those of you who also plan to attend
Online Northwest (http://onlinenorthwest.org/) on Friday, March 31, this
represents a unique opportunity to make a long weekend packed with
high-level programming! Can We Do That? is one of four workshops being
offered in the second year of the VRAF Regional Workshop Program. The VRAF
is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their continued support
of this exciting opportunity to partner with cultural heritage and
educational institutions, and to Emporia University’s School of Library and
Information Management for their additional sponsorship of this workshop.
A thorough understanding of intellectual property rights can be a
challenge for lawyers, let alone for information, academic, and cultural
heritage professionals, and the application of copyright restrictions on
visual media can induce a sense of alarm and uncertainty dependent upon
specific circumstances. This workshop will provide a clear focus on U.S.
copyright law, intellectual property rights, and fair use as they pertain
to the use of visual media (e.g., images and moving images) within the
academic, archival, library, gallery, and museum environments. Educational
usage, securing publication rights, creative reuse, rights statements,
licensing, and the public domain will be explored within the context of
case studies, including those provided by participants in advance of the
workshop. Participants will also be introduced to tools and resources to
help them and their constituents in making appropriate decisions regarding
appropriate use and dissemination of visual media.
Can We Do That? will be taught by Cara Hirsch, Associate General Counsel at
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which owns and operates the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection in Venice. Cara supports the Guggenheim’s legal affairs in a
wide variety of areas including intellectual property. Prior to the
Guggenheim, Cara was Deputy General Counsel for Artstor, a nonprofit
organization whose mission is to use digital technology to enhance
scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts, humanities and other
fields. Among her duties at Artstor, Cara collaborated in refining
Artstor's intellectual property and other legal strategies for the
organization. She also supervised the rights review and clearance process
for media collections in the Artstor Digital Library, a digital image
resource that makes available to nonprofit institutions over 1.7 million
digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Prior
to her work at Artstor, Cara worked as an Associate at the law firms of
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Andrews Kurth LLP, where she practiced in
the field of intellectual property. She served as Co-Chair of the
Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the Visual Resources Association
from 2011-2014. Cara received her J.D. from Fordham University School of
Law and her B.A., with distinction, from the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor.
To register for Can We Do That? visit http://tinyurl.com/j4slq32. The fee
for this day-long workshop is $125. For more information, or if you have
questions about registration, feel free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF
Director, [log in to unmask] For questions about the Pacific Northwest
College of Art venue, please contact Serenity Ibsen, Interim Director of
Library Services at PNCA, [log in to unmask]
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Curator of Visual Resources
Washington University in Saint Louis
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