Dear Museum-L subscribers,

Join peers from across the country in one of AAM's highly rated
professional education programs.  Our next offering is:

Current Issues in Intellectual Property Seminar
December 3-5, 1998
San Francisco, California

As creators, owners, and users of intellectual property, museums today
are grappling with an array of issues surrounding copyright, trademark,
trade dress, trade secret, and patents. This interdisciplinary seminar
focuses on clarifying some of the confusion and misinformation
associated with copyright and trademark law and the appropriate uses of
such materials, managing intellectual property in the digital
environment, illuminating the fair use debate, reviewing new copyright
developments in Congress and the courts, and other intellectual property
issues of interest to the museum community.

Confirmed speakers:
Howard Besser, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Information and Management
Systems, University of California, Berkeley
Kenneth D. Crews, Associate Professor of Law and of Library and
Information     Science, Director, Copyright Management Center, Indiana
University-Purdue       University, Indianapolis
Leslie Kurtz, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of California,
Davis
Karren M. Shorofsky, Partner, Member of the Intellectual Property,
Multimedia,     and Litigation Groups, Steinhart & Falconer, LLP, San
Francisco
Stephen E. Weil, Senior Scholar Emeritus, Center for Museum Studies,
Smithsonian
     Institution, Washington, D.C.

Registration fees:
$300, AAM Member-early registration (received by November 2, 1998)
$350, AAM Member-standard registration
$425, Non-member

Host hotel:
Radisson Miyako Hotel, 1625 Post Street, San Francisco, California 94115
     (800) 533-4567 or (415) 922-3200
$129 per night single/double occupancy (plus applicable taxes)
     special negotiated rate available until November 11, 1998

For additional information about this or other seminars contact AAM's
professional education programs at (202) 289-9114 or
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