NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 12, 2001
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NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: CINCINNATI
"New Strategies: New Contexts"
http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/27_ninch.html
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CIMI/Museum Computer
Network Conference
Westin Cincinnati Hotel
Saturday October 27, 1-4pm
Free of Charge * Open to All
Registration Required:
http://www.mcn.edu/2001conference.asp
or call 877.626.3800.
Copyright issues facing the museum community will be at the heart
of "NEW STRATEGIES: NEW CONTEXTS," the fifth in the 2001
series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS. The meeting is hosted by the
Museum Computer Network as part of its annual conference:
"MCN/CIMI 2001 - Real Life: Virtual Experiences."
The NINCH-MCN Copyright Town Meeting will be held in the Westin
Cincinnati Hotel on Saturday October 27, 1-4pm. The meeting is open to
all and is free of charge but registration is required.
Between them, six speakers will: outline the map of copyright
concerns for museums today; discuss recent changes in copyright law
and options for museums; and present two new sets of strategies for
distributing museum material online - the AMICO and ArtSTOR
projects.
Featured speakers include:
* Amalyah Keshet, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
* Rina Pantalony, Intellectual
Property Counsel, New York
* Suzanne Quigley, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York
* James Shulman, Executive Director,
ArtSTOR
* Jennifer Trant, Executive Director,
Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
* Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of
Wisconsin at Madison
The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings seek to 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. The program will include plenty of time for
audience questions, comments and discussion.
Register online at
http://www.mcn.edu/2001conference.asp or call and leave your name,
organization and email address at 877.626.3800. If you are not
attending the MCN conference and register online, complete your name,
organization and email address, check the NINCH Town Hall Meeting box
and type "no payment required" under credit card and
expiration date. For questions, call 877.626.3800, or email
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
For information on all the NINCH 2001 Copyright Town meetings,
see http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/2001.html
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Agenda
The MCN meeting will focus on the recent changes to traditional
values in copyright and on what new strategies we might develop to
proactively protect the interests of this community and of the public
good.
The three-hour meeting will comprise three sections
I MAPPING THE LANDSCAPE
* Diane Zorich, Information Management Consultant
* David Green, Executive Director, NINCH
- "Introductions"
* Amalyah Keshet, Head of Image Resources & Copyright
Management
The Israel Museum
* Suzanne Quigley, Head Registrar, Collections &
Exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- "A Practical Cartography of Copyright"
As most museums do not have or cannot
afford in-house legal counsel, rights management and registration
staff have had to assume the responsibility for developing eminently
practical ways to assist their museums in this
increasingly important area. We have had to move beyond simply
thinking about image rights clearance, or putting images on the
Web. Now we have to make new assessments of the ownership of
intellectual property, develop new agreements, and watch for the
possibilitites of copyright infringement. This all calls for new and
creative thinking. This joint presentation will
explore some ideas for solutions to the new
problems.
>> Questions & Comments
II CHANGES IN COPYRIGHT LAW AND MUSEUMS' RESPONSE
* Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of
Wisconsin at Madison
- "10 Things You Can Do to Save the Information
Ecosystem"
Recent changes to law, technology, and cultural habits
have threatened to stifle the flow of culture and information in
America. This presentation presents some ways users, consumers,
scholars, teachers, and journalists can resist the trend toward total
control of content.
* Rina Pantalony, Intellectual
Property Counsel, New York, (formerly with the Canadian Heritage
Information Network, Ottawa)
- "The Carrot v. The Stick: Can Copyright Be
Used to Enhance Access to On-Line Cultural Heritage
Content"
Copyright, if used effectively, managed well and respected
in business arrangements encourages and enhances access to content on
the Internet. But with the advent of new technologies and the
emergence of a knowledge-based society, new ways of thinking may be
required in order to ensure that the Internet fosters the free-flow of
information. This presentation will focus on two examples
arguing that a greater respect for copyright protection would increase
access to digital content.
>> Questions &
Comments
Ice Cream Break
III NEW STRATEGIES
* James Shulman, Executive Director,
ArtSTOR
- "Intellectual Property: The ArtSTOR
Approach"
This April, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced the
creation of ArtSTOR, a new 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. ArtSTOR's
executive director will discuss the organization's approach to
the intellectual property issues involved in archiving and
distributing digital images.
* Jennifer Trant, Executive Director,
AMICO
- "AMICO - Intellectual Property Issues &
Solutions in Delivering a Multimedia Library to Educational
Institutions"
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is an innovative
collaboration, not seen before in museums, that shares, shapes and
standardizes museum multimedia and makes it available for
educational use. Since 1997, AMICO Members have been creating The
AMICO Library(TM), an integrated resource compiling the digital
documentation of their collections. In doing so, they have
developed practical, workable agreements around the use of a wide
range of intellectual property that balance the needs of museums,
educational users, artists and artists estates, and respect the many
layers of copyright inherent in a digital art
resource.
>> Questions &
Comments
>> OPEN FORUM
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Speakers
Amalyah Keshet
Since moving to Israel in 1977, Ms. Keshet
has held several positions at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, including
Curator of European Art. As Head of Image Resources & Copyright
Management, she is responsible for transforming the department into
the leading authority for copyright licensing, media hosting services,
and photographic services and archiving in the museum field in
Israel.
Rina Pantalony
After studying art history in Paris, Rina
Elster Pantalony joined the Canadian government as an analyst in
copyright and arts policy. From 1997 to January 2001, Ms. Pantalony
acted as Senior Policy Advisor to the Canadian Heritage Information
Network and in January 2001, she was appointed I.P. advisor to a joint
Internet venture launched by the Tate Gallery, London and the Museum
of Modern Art, New York. She has published and spoken extensively on
intellectual property issues affecting cultural heritage.
Suzanne Quigley
Suzanne Quigley is the Head Registrar, Collections &
Exhibitions at the
Whitney Museum of American Art. Formerly, she was Head Registrar
at the
Guggenheim Museum and at the Detroit Institute of Arts. At
the Whitney she is
co-chair of the museum's technology task force. She has
been the chair of the AAM-RC taskforce, RARIN (Rights &
Reproduction Information Network) for four years and is also the chair
of the RC nominating committee.
James Shulman
In addition to assisting in the oversight
of the Mellon Foundation's endowment as the Foundation's financial
and administrative officer, James Shulman has served in research and
program-related positions at the Mellon Foundation since 1994. In
April he was appointed executive director of ArtSTOR. Shulman
received both his BA and his PhD in Renaissance Studies from Yale
University.
Jennifer Trant
Since 1997, Jennifer has been Executive Director of the Art
Museum Image Consortium. Trained as an historian
and art historian, she was the first
director of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL), an
innovative project exploring the use of digital museum documentation
on university campuses, and participated in the Visual Images Working
Group of the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU). She was Editor-in-Chief
of Archives and Museum Informatics, from 1997 to
2000.
Siva Vaidhyanathan
A cultural historian and media scholar,
Professor Vaidhyanathan is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs:
The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity
(New York University Press, 2001). He is currently working on a book
about Napster and the ways we regulate our information ecosystem.
Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, has testified at
hearings held by the U.S. Copyright office and has submitted amicus
briefs in some high-profile copyright cases.
Diane Zorich
Diane M. Zorich is an information
management consultant for cultural heritage organizations. She
specializes in organizing and managing cultural information, with an
emphasis on providing and accessing this information over digital
networks. In 1999, she published Introduction to Managing Digital
Assets: Options for Cultural and Educational Organizations (The J.
Paul Getty Trust) and served as project manager for A Museum Guide
to Copyright and Trademark (American Association of
Museums).
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