ninch-announce: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NYC, Sept 24, 2001

Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NYC, Sept 24, 2001
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:02:26 -0400

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News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
August 29, 2001

NINCH and The New York Public Library
in association with
The Frick Collection, New York University Libraries and
New York University Information Technology Services
present:
NEW YORK CITY COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING
"Intellectual Property & Multimedia in the Digital Age"
Monday September 24: New York Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Fifth Avenue at 42nd St
8:30am-5:00pm
http://www.nypl.org/research/copyright/index.html

This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

* * *

The fourth in the 2001 series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS is to
be held at the Celeste Bartos Forum in the New York Public Library
(Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street) on Monday September 24 from 8:30am
until 5pm.

Two keynote speakers Professor Peter Jaszi (Washington College of
Law, American University) and Linda Tadic (Manager of the Digital
Library, Home Box Office) will explore issues arising for non-profit
cultural institutions as they manage and use multimedia digital
cultural material in an online environment. Following each of their
presentations, Jaszi and Tadic will moderate a panel of experts in
the field to discuss issues from the points of view of owners and
users of digital assets.

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. The program will include plenty of time for audience
questions, comments and discussion.

Themes
The copyright-related issues of managing and using digital mutimedia
online are some of the thorniest that administrators, lawyers,
scholars, curators, teachers, artists and others have to face today.
The Napster case powerfully demonstrated the need for re-thinking
business practices in response to online music listeners. Meanwhile,
and a little more quietly, film and dance scholars among others are
finding it a nightmare to clear permissions for publishing multimedia
CDs or websites. With a specific focus on the multimedia issues
presented by music, dance, moving images and sound recordings, this
Copyright Town Meeting will bring together copyright lawyers, and
representatives from non-profit and for-profit enterprises to clarify
the issues and to chart ways forward for those confronted by the
practical problems of working on the Internet with cultural heritage
materials.

* copyrighting compilation works;
* clearing rights and permissions;
* limits and possibilities of fair use of multimedia online;
* legal protection for encryption;
* publicity and privacy rights;
* the impact of Napster on for-profit and non-profit enterprises
* what non-profits and for-profits can learn from each other in the
copyright arena

Speakers
Two keynote speakers will address the issues of non-profits as
rightsholders and as users of digital multimedia material. Professor
Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law, American University) will
speak on "non-profits as rightsholders" while Linda Tadic (Manager of
the Digital Library, Home Box Office) will address "non-profits as
users."

Peter Jaszi teaches at the Washington College of Law of The American
University, in Washington, D.C., where he directs the new
Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic and the Program on
Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. Professor Jaszi is a
graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and an
experienced copyright litigator who lectures frequently to
professional groups in the United States and abroad.

Linda Tadic is the Manager of the Digital Library at HBO. Ms. Tadic
was the Digital Projects Coordinator at the Getty Research Institute.
Prior to this position, she was Director of the Media Archives and
Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. In 1998-1999,
she was President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists
(AMIA).

PANEL ONE
Professor Jaszi will moderate a panel on "Intellectual Property
Owners in the Digital Environment," with the following speakers:

* Ryan Craig, a business development consultant, lawyer and
co-founder of Fathom, is currently with Warburg Pincus, the
international private equity firm, where he invests in and works with
education and training companies. At McKinsey & Company, Mr. Craig
advised top management in the music, video, cable, telecommunications
and Internet industries on strategic and operational projects.

* Adam Eisgrau, Principal and Director of The Wexler Group, was
Judiciary Committee Counsel to Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA)
(1993-1995) and then the First legislative Counsel for the American
Library Association (1995-1999), where he served as principal
domestic and international lobbyist on intellectual property issues
as the world wrestled with the reform of IP law for the Internet
age. Eisgrau also was a primary organizer and media spokesperson for
the Digital Future Coalition.

* Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly
Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the
Foundation, he served as the first Director of the Digital Library
Federation (1997-1999), and as Associate University Librarian at Yale
University (1993-1997). In 1995-1996, he co-chaired the Task Force of
the Commission of Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries
Group on Archiving of Digital Information, and was the editor and a
principal author of the groundbreaking Task Force Report.

PANEL TWO
Linda Tadic will then moderate a panel on "Intellectual Property
Users in the Digital Environment," with the following speakers:

* Hank Barry, interim CEO at Napster (May 2000 to July 2001) is a
partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. He serves as a director
of Sensoria Corporation and of Napster, Inc. He received his law
degree in 1983 from Stanford University, where he was managing editor
of the Stanford Law Review and currently serves on the Board of
Visitors of Stanford Law School.

* Howard Besser is an Associate Professor at UCLA's School of
Education and Information Studies where he teaches courses and does
research on multimedia, image databases, digital libraries, metadata
standards, intellectual property, digital longevity,information
literacy, and the social and cultural impact of new information
technologies. He was a member of the National Academy of Science
panel that authored "The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in
the Information Age."

* Robert Kolker is Chair of the School of Literature, Communication,
and Culture at The Ivan Allen College at Georgia Tech. He is author
of "A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg,
Altman. Third, revised edition, July 2000; Film, Form and Culture.
With accompanying CD-ROM. New York: McGraw-Hill, October, Second
Edition, August, 2001; The Films of Wim Wenders, with Peter Beicken.
Cambridge University Press, December, 1992; Bernardo Bertolucci.
London: British Film Institute Books. June, 1985; New York: Oxford
University Press. October, 1985. 258 pp.; The Altering Eye:
Contemporary International Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press.
January, 1983. 425 pp. Now online at
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rkolker/AlteringEye/. He and colleague Janet
Murray have recently been awarded an NEH Grant to do a digital,
annotated edition of Casablanca.

Registration (Sept 10 DEADLINE)
Thanks to support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, participation
in the town meetings is free of charge. However, seating is limited
and early registration is advised. Please register online at
http://www2.nypl.org/home/copyright/registration.cfm. Registration
deadline: Monday September 10.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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.

NYC LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Patricia Barnett
Andrew W. Mellon Librarian, The Frick Collection

Heike Kordish
Deputy Director, The Research Libraries,
The New York Public Library

Madeleine Nichols
Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Collection,
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Jennifer Vinopal
Coordinator, Studio for Digital Projects & Research
New York University Libraries

Matthew Zimmerman
Humanities Computing Specialist,
New York University Information Technology Services

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
Georgia Harper, University of Texas
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
Peter Walsh, College Art Association Committee on Intellectual Property
Patricia Williams, Americans for the Arts
Martha Winnacker, University of California

The fourth in the 2001 series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS is to be held at the Celeste Bartos Forum in the New York Public Library (Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street) on Monday September 24 from 8:30am until 5pm.

Two keynote speakers Professor Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law, American University) and Linda Tadic (Manager of the Digital Library, Home Box Office) will explore issues arising for non-profit cultural institutions as they manage and use multimedia digital cultural material in an online environment. Following each of their presentations, Jaszi and Tadic will moderate a panel of experts in the field to discuss issues from the points of view of owners and users of digital assets.

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. The program will include plenty of time for audience questions, comments and discussion.

The copyright-related issues of managing and using digital mutimedia online are some of the thorniest that administrators, lawyers, scholars, curators, teachers, artists and others have to face today. The Napster case powerfully demonstrated the need for re-thinking business practices in response to online music listeners. Meanwhile, and a little more quietly, film and dance scholars among others are finding it a nightmare to clear permissions for publishing multimedia CDs or websites. With a specific focus on the multimedia issues presented by music, dance, moving images and sound recordings, this Copyright Town Meeting will bring together copyright lawyers, and representatives from non-profit and for-profit enterprises to clarify the issues and to chart ways forward for those confronted by the practical problems of working on the Internet with cultural heritage materials.

Two keynote speakers will address the issues of non-profits as rightsholders and as users of digital multimedia material. Professor Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law, American University) will speak on "non-profits as rightsholders" while Linda Tadic (Manager of the Digital Library, Home Box Office) will address "non-profits as users."

Peter Jaszi teaches at the Washington College of Law of The American University, in Washington, D.C., where he directs the new Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic and the Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. Professor Jaszi is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and an experienced copyright litigator who lectures frequently to professional groups in the United States and abroad.

Linda Tadic is the Manager of the Digital Library at HBO. Ms. Tadic was the Digital Projects Coordinator at the Getty Research Institute. Prior to this position, she was Director of the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. In 1998-1999, she was President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA).

* Ryan Craig, a business development consultant, lawyer and co-founder of Fathom, is currently with Warburg Pincus, the international private equity firm, where he invests in and works with education and training companies. At McKinsey & Company, Mr. Craig advised top management in the music, video, cable, telecommunications and Internet industries on strategic and operational projects.

* Adam Eisgrau, Principal and Director of The Wexler Group, was Judiciary Committee Counsel to Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) (1993-1995) and then the First legislative Counsel for the American Library Association (1995-1999), where he served as principal domestic and international lobbyist on intellectual property issues as the world wrestled with the reform of IP law for the Internet

* Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he served as the first Director of the Digital Library Federation (1997-1999), and as Associate University Librarian at Yale University (1993-1997). In 1995-1996, he co-chaired the Task Force of the Commission of Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital Information, and was the editor and a principal author of the groundbreaking Task Force Report.

* Hank Barry, interim CEO at Napster (May 2000 to July 2001) is a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. He serves as a director of Sensoria Corporation and of Napster, Inc. He received his law degree in 1983 from Stanford University, where he was managing editor of the Stanford Law Review and currently serves on the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School.

* Howard Besser is an Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Education and Information Studies where he teaches courses and does research on multimedia, image databases, digital libraries, metadata standards, intellectual property, digital longevity,information literacy, and the social and cultural impact of new information technologies. He was a member of the National Academy of Science panel that authored "The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age."

* Robert Kolker is Chair of the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at The Ivan Allen College at Georgia Tech. He is author of "A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman. Third, revised edition, July 2000; Film, Form and Culture. With accompanying CD-ROM. New York: McGraw-Hill, October, Second Edition, August, 2001; The Films of Wim Wenders, with Peter Beicken. Cambridge University Press, December, 1992; Bernardo Bertolucci. London: British Film Institute Books. June, 1985; New York: Oxford University Press. October, 1985. 258 pp.; The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press. January, 1983. 425 pp. Now online at http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rkolker/AlteringEye/. He and colleague Janet Murray have recently been awarded an NEH Grant to do a digital, annotated edition of Casablanca.

Thanks to support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, participation in the town meetings is free of charge. However, seating is limited and early registration is advised. Please register online at http://www2.nypl.org/home/copyright/registration.cfm. Registration deadline: Monday September 10.

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.

Patricia Barnett
Andrew W. Mellon Librarian, The Frick Collection

Jacqueline F. Bausch
Deputy General Counsel, The New York Public Library

Daniel Dex
Associate Counsel, The New York Public Library

Heike Kordish
Deputy Director, The Research Libraries,
The New York Public Library

Madeleine Nichols
Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Collection,
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Robert J. Vanni
General Counsel, The New York Public Library

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