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TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES
THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1997, 9:30-4:30
Fair Use of Digital Images, the first in a series of town meetings co-sponsored by the College Art Association and the American Council of Learned Societies, will take place on Sunday, February 16, from 9:30 to 4:30 at Cooper Union's Great Hall, 1 Cooper Square. This first town meeting follows the 85th annual College Art Association conference at the New York Hilton, February 12-15, 1997.
What can artists, curators, librarians, and scholars do with digital images? Although technologies of digital networks open the door to many new possibilities, copyright law will also play a critical role in shaping what we can do. The purpose of this first town meeting is to allow wide discussion of what is "fair use" of digital images.
Digital networks pose many new challenges for copyright law. This is particularly so with regard to images, which may now be easily digitized and accessed from remote locations. Who will hold the rights? What will be "fair use" (a key concept in copyright law) of such images? Who will have to pay for what? This town meeting will explore these issues, putting a particular focus on guidelines recently drafted by the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), which are proposed for wide endorsement by organizations and will have implications for all users, creators, and rights holders. In short, how can we all live together?
This is first in a series of town meetings made possible by a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES
FEBRUARY 16, 1997, 9:30-4:30
GREAT HALL AT COOPER UNION
MORNING SESSION 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
WELCOMING REMARKS: Susan Ball, Executive Director, College Art Association
INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUES: Pat Williams and David Green, Moderators
LEGAL INTRODUCTION TO COPYRIGHT:
=85Speaker TBA
PRESENTATION OF PREDICAMENTS:
=85Leila Kinney, Art Historian, Massachusetts Institute of Technol= ogy =85Lyndel King, Director, Weisman Art Museum =85Nancy Macko, Artist, Scripps College
OUTLINE OF PROPOSED CONFU GUIDELINES FOR FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES:
Cameron Kichin, American Association of Museums
LUNCH - 12:30-1:30 p.m. (on your own)
AFTERNOON SESSION 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
EXPLORING THE ISSUES: Susan Ball and Pat Williams, Moderators
GENERAL ISSUES/TOPICS
=85Copyright Education - Kenneth Crews, Indiana University =85Liability - Adam Eisgrau, American Library Association, Digital Futures Coalition =85Artists' Rights - Ted Feder, Artists Rights Society =85Copy Photography - Macie Hall, Johns Hopkins University =85Site Licensing - Geoffrey Samuels, MLC Development
PRACTICAL USE OF WEB SITES
=85Annette Weintraub, Artist, City University of New York Elizabeth Schmidt, Colonial Williamsburg Kathy Cohen, Art Historian, San Jose State University
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