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Betreff: CAA Copyright Town Meeting, Chicago
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ANNOUNCEMENT and INVITATION:

The Committee on Intellectual Property of the College Art Association
(CAA), in conjunction with the National Initiative for a Networked
Cultural Heritage (NINCH), wisHes to announce the program for the
forthcoming fifth annual Copyright Town Meeting devoted to the topic of
intellectual property in academe.

Scheduled as part of the upcoming Conference of the College Art
Association (Chicago, February 28-March 3; see http://www.collegeart.
org), the Town Meeting will be held Saturday, March 3, 2001 in two
sessions: 9:30-noon for presentations, and 12:30-2:00 for discussion.
The sessions are open to all -- to registered conference attendees and
to unregistered individuals who purchase a single-session ticket at the
conference.

Detailed information about the program, attendance, the speakers, their
topics and more may be found at the following location:

http://w ww.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm

THEME:

This fifth edition of the annual NINCH/CAA Copyright Town Meeting is
devoted to intellectual property that has been specifically prepared to
be licensed for educational and scholarly use. It concerns the
distribution of copyrighted and other materials especially crafted to
meet the current
and emerging needs of university artists and of art historians, among
others. The presenters will be given opportunity to explain how their
products can alter, improve, or re-create the methods of education and
research. The speakers have been asked to discuss how their services and
products specifically help fulfill educational and scholarly missions in
ways that unlicensed collections typically
do not or can not.

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS:

SASKIA is a traditional art-history slide resource that is working to
transform its catalogue and methods from analog distribution to digital
and, in the process is inventing new formats and licensing products.

AMICO is a highly regarded repository and resource of digital images for
educational use. AMICO offers institutional subscriptions to its
expanding library.

QUESTIA is an innovative effort to provide indexed digital access to
tens of thousands of published works used in undergraduate humanities
education.

Not presenting, but sitting on the Q&A panel during the second half of
the program will be a representative from the Academic Image Cooperative
(AIC), a unique program engaged in collecting public domain and
otherwise legally unencumbered images for eventual use by art
historians, among others.

In addition, Robert Panzer, the executive director of the Visual Artists
Gallery Association (VAGA) will discuss his organization's role as
licensing agency for artists and the means by which VAGA serves
scholarly and educational interests alongside commercial ones. In
addition Mr. Panzer is a member of the CAA Committee on Intellectual
Property (CIP).

Finally, Tom Bower, a member of the intellectual property group of the
National Museum of American History and the Committee on Intellectual
Property of the College Art Association (CIP), will dissect the process
by which educators and scholars request permission to publish images.
The purpose of this exercise is to increase the likelihood of applicants
obtaining favorable
treatment and receiving the traditional benefits extended to scholars.

PARTICIPATING INDIVIDUALS:

Co-chairs: David Green (NINCH) and Robert Baron (CAA Committee on
Intellectual Property)

Renate Wiedenhoeft, SASKIA Cultural Documentation, Ltd.
(http://www.saskia.com)

Jennifer Trant, Executive Director, Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
(http://www.amico.org)

Carol Hughes, Director of Collections Management, Questia Media, Inc.
(http://www.questia.com)< br>
Robert Panzer, Visual Artists and Galleries Association (VAGA)
(mailto:rpanzer.vagaerols.com)

Thomas W. Bower, Deputy Registrar, National Museum of American History,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. (http://americanhistor
y.si.edu)

Max Marmor, Director, Yale Art Library, for The Academic Image
Cooperative (AIC), (http: //www.clir.org/diglib/collections/aic.htm)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

For additional information and questions contact Marta Teegan at the
College Art Association (mailto:mteegencol legeart.org) or Robert Baron
(mailto:robertstudiol o.org)