ninch-announce: ALTERED PROGRAM: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING:

Subject: ALTERED PROGRAM: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NYC, Sept 24, 2001
David L. Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:10:27 -0400

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
September 20, 2001

The New York City NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING will be held Monday
September 24 (8:30am-5pm) at the New York Public Library (Fifth
Avenue at 42nd Street).

Due to the turmoil induced by the attack on New York City last week,
two of the advertised speakers will not be able to participate.
However, we are very grateful that two new speakers have agreed to
contribute to the program:

* Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of the new book "Copyrights
and Copywrongs," is currently working on a book about Napster and the
ways we regulate our information ecosystem.

* Jane White, Director of the International Children's Digital
Library at The Internet Archive, and formerly of ABC News, will speak
about copyright issues faced by The Internet Moving Images Archive
<www.archive.org/movies/>

As before, the 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. They
will then each moderate a panel discussing issues from the points of
view of owners and users of digital assets.

Registration: A free box lunch will be available only for those 315
people who have registered for the meeting. Although registration has
closed, there may be some limited seating available for others.

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. For information on all the NINCH
2001 Copyright Town meetings, see
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/2001.html

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:

* 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."

* Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor of Information Studies at
the University of Wisconsin at Madison
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. After five years as a professional journalist
Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University
of Texas at Austin. Vaidhyanathan has taught at the University of
Texas, Wesleyan University, and New York University.

* Jane White is Director of the NSF-funded International Children's
Digital Library at The Internet Archive. She has worked as executive
vice president and executive producer for Dotcomiz, a performance
animation company, as development director at Viacom New Media and
executive producer at Paramount Interactive. While at ABC News
(1986-1993) she was director of education services, manager of ABC
News Archives and co-founder of ABC News Interactive where she
produced a series of interactive multimedia materials for the
educational community.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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

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The New York City NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING will be held Monday September 24 (8:30am-5pm) at the New York Public Library (Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street).

Due to the turmoil induced by the attack on New York City last week, two of the advertised speakers will not be able to participate. However, we are very grateful that two new speakers have agreed to contribute to the program:

* Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of the new book "Copyrights and Copywrongs," is currently working on a book about Napster and the ways we regulate our information ecosystem.

* Jane White, Director of the International Children's Digital Library at The Internet Archive, and formerly of ABC News, will speak about copyright issues faced by The Internet Moving Images Archive <www.archive.org/movies/>

As before, the 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. They will then each moderate a panel discussing issues from the points of view of owners and users of digital assets.

Registration: A free box lunch will be available only for those 315 people who have registered for the meeting. Although registration has closed, there may be some limited seating available for others.

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. For information on all the NINCH 2001 Copyright Town meetings, see http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/2001.html

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.

* 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."

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. After five years as a professional journalist Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Vaidhyanathan has taught at the University of Texas, Wesleyan University, and New York University.

* Jane White is Director of the NSF-funded International Children's Digital Library at The Internet Archive. She has worked as executive vice president and executive producer for Dotcomiz, a performance animation company, as development director at Viacom New Media and executive producer at Paramount Interactive. While at ABC News (1986-1993) she was director of education services, manager of ABC News Archives and co-founder of ABC News Interactive where she produced a series of interactive multimedia materials for the educational community.

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.

NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted; neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit.