NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
January 11, 2002
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NINCH, in association with the
Visual Resources Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America,
presents
SAINT LOUIS COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING
"The Changing Research and Collections Environment:
The Information Commons Today"
Saturday March 23, 2002
Hyatt Regency Union Station, St Louis
9:30am-12:30pm
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings02/stlouis.html
* * * Free of Charge * * *
This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)
announces the first in its 2002 series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN
MEETINGS. The meeting will be part of the first joint conference of
the Art Libraries Society of North America and the Visual Resources
Association. The subject of this first 2002 meeting is "The Changing
Research and Collections Environment: The Information Commons Today."
The meeting is free-of-charge and open to the public. It will be held
9:30am-12:30pm on Saturday March 23 in the conference hotel: the
Hyatt Regency in the refurbished Union Station, St Louis. Designed by
Theodore Link, and once the second busiest train station in the
nation, this 1884 building is now on the National Register of
Historic Places.
The Town Meeting will focus on the history and meaning of the
"information commons," a free public resource, and how it intersects
with licensing, one of the prevailing mechanisms for distributing
digital resources today.
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After contextual introductions, the meeting will open with legal
counsel Michael Shapiro (currently Attorney-Advisor, Office of
International and Legislative Affairs, U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office), who will review the evolution of the notion of an
"Information Commons." Architectural historian and Bryn Mawr lecturer
Jeffrey Cohen will then speak about the practical issues of
implementing a public domain database to provide wide and free access
to certain cultural material.
The second part of the meeting will open with Mary Case (Association
of Research Libraries) describing current trends in licensing,
currently the leading means of distributing digital information
online. She will be followed by two speakers describing the
approaches of two organizations in licensing cultural materials,
principally for educational and nonprofit use. First, Robert Clarida
(Partner, Cowan, Liebowitz and Latman) will speak on the copyright
approaches of the Mellon Foundation in developing and distributing
the ArtSTOR collection (an independent not-for-profit organization
that will develop, "store," and distribute electronically digital
images and related scholarly materials for the study of art,
architecture, and other fields in the humanities). Tony Gill (Program
Officer, Research Libraries Group) will then outline the licensing
arrangements for contributors and academic subscribers to
RLG Cultural Materials (a new digital multimedia collection of works and
artifacts drawn from the collections of RLG member institutions) and
will also describe the Alliance's future aspirations for wider
licensing to the commercial and pay-per-view sectors.
The meeting will conclude with an open forum with questions, comments
and discussion on the issues raised by the presentations.
* To be admitted, non-conference participants need to collect a
special "speakers badge" from the Conference Registration Desk.
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The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings balance expert opinion and audience
participation on the basics of copyright law, the implications of
copyright online, recent changes in copyright law and practice, and
practical issues related to the networking of cultural heritage
materials.
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Speakers
Kathe Hicks Albrecht is the visual resources curator at the American
University in Washington, D.C. and has been actively involved in
issues surrounding the use of digital image information and its
impact on the educational community. As chair of the VRA
Intellectual Property Rights Committee, she was instrumental in the
development of the VRA Image Collection
Guidelines.
Mary Case is Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication of the
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) where she has coordinated
programs and workshops on the licensing of electronic resources,
helped in the development of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition), and coordinated several national
conferences and roundtables on issues in scholarly communication.
Robert Clarida is a partner at the New York firm of Cowan, Liebowitz
& Latman. On behalf of clients such as Harvard University and the New
York Public Library he has been actively involved with digital
copyright issues in the library context, and has advised the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation with respect to the digitization of artworks for
the ArtSTOR project.
Jeffrey Cohen is an architectural historian specializing in nineteenth-
century subjects and teaching in the Growth & Structure of Cities
Program at Bryn Mawr College, where he is also director of the
Digital Media and Visual Resource Center. He leads several digital
projects, such as the Image Exchange Project of the Society of
Architectural Historians (SAH) and "Places in Time: Documentation of
Place in the Greater Philadelphia Area."
Tony Gill has been a Program Officer at the Research Libraries Group
since June 1999, with a remit to facilitate collaborative activities
in the visual arts, museums and natural history arenas. He is the
liaison for the RLG Art & Architecture Group and the SCIPIO
Taskforce, is active in the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group and is
extensively involved in RLG's Cultural Materials Initiative.
Roger Lawson is administrative librarian at the National Gallery of
Art. A member of ARLIS/NA since 1979, he served as President in 1997
and is currently a member of the Public Policy Committee and the
society's liaison to NINCH. He has also participated in a number of
RLG initiatives, including chair of the Art and Architecture Group in
1994.
Michael Shapiro is an attorney and author specializing in domestic
and international copyright matters. Formerly General Counsel of the
National Endowment for the Humanities, he currently serves as
Attorney-Advisor, Office of International and Legislative Affairs,
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Dr. Shapiro has written extensively
and lectured widely on a broad range of legal and cultural topics and
is the co-author of "A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark
(American Association of Museums, 1999).
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Thanks to support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, participation
in the town meetings is free of charge.
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Local committees have organized the town meetings, which have been
coordinated and reviewed by the NINCH Town Meetings Working Group.
The Copyright Town Meetings series is a component of the NINCH
Copyright Education Program, organized by the NINCH Advocacy Working
Group.
SAINT LOUIS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Kathy Albrecht, American University
Roger Lawson, National Gallery of Art
Barbara Rockenbach, Yale University
Maryly Snow, University of California, Berkeley
NINCH TOWN MEETINGS WORKING GROUP:
Kathe Albrecht, American University/Visual Resources Association
Mary Case, Association of Research Libraries
Robert Baron, Independent Scholar
Kenneth Crews, Indiana University (Advisor)
Georgia Harper, University of Texas (Advisor)
Christine Sundt, University of Oregon/Visual Resources Association/NINCH BOARD
Marta Teegen, College Art Association
Sanford Thatcher, Pennsylvania State University Press/Association of
American University Presses
Patricia Williams, Americans for the Arts
Martha Winnacker, University of California (Advisor)
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