NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING, Toronto, Sept 7: Museum IP Policy Creation BY Amalyah Keshet

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Date:  Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:46:10 +0200
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             NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: TORONTO
       Presented in collaboration with the Museum Computer Network
              and the Canadian Heritage Information Network
          "Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World"
             http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.html

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Museum Computer Network Conference
Hilton Toronto Hotel
Saturday September 7, 9am-4pm
Free of Charge * Open to All

Registration Required: http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2002/register.htm
This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation

In a world where many content-providers are worried about digital
misappropriation of material, and users are concerned about
inaccessible, expensive or low-grade resources, how important is it for
museums to have clear and fair intellectual property policy to monitor
and control the use and distribution of digital content and how do they
go about creating it?
"Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World," will attempt to answer
these questions.

The 19th NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, presented at the Museum Computer
Network (MCN) conference in Toronto, in collaboration with MCN and the
Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) will be held in the Hilton
Toronto Hotel on Saturday September 7, 9am-4pm. The meeting is open to
all and is free of charge but registration is required.

The Toronto Town Meeting will be part presentation, part practicum. It
will open with several speakers defining what policy is, what core
values it represents and why it is important for an institution to have
an IP policy. A keynote address will situate the role of institutional
policy within an international context. Museum legal expert Maria
Pallante will then analyze the key issues to consider when preparing a
policy.

In the second half of the meeting two practitioners will examine
policy-building. Brian Porter will report on his experience at the Royal
Ontario Museum, while Rachelle Brown of the Smithsonian Institution will
examine the importance of understanding an institution's larger values
in constructing policy. These talks will introduce the workshop
component of the Meeting, at which participants will break into working
groups to construct policy solutions to particular museum situations.
The results of the working groups will be reviewed by a panel of all the
speakers.

The focus of this meeting is designed to complement that of the NINCH
Copyright Town Meeting, held November 2001 in Eugene, Oregon, on
"Creating Policy: Copyright Policies in the University." Laura Gasaway,
a key presenter and organizer of the Eugene meeting, is a featured
speaker at this meeting. A report on the Eugene Town Meeting and
workshop can be seen at
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html


Featured speakers:
*  Rachelle Brown, Assistant General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution
*  Laura N. Gasaway, Director of Law Library and Professor of Law,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
*  David Muls, Senior Counsellor, Office of Legal and Organization
Affairs, World Intellectual Property Organization [invited]
*  Maria Pallante, Associate General Counsel, Guggenheim
Museum/Foundation
*  Rina Pantalony, Senior Policy Analyst, Canadian Heritage Information
Network
*  Brian Porter, Media Resources Director, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

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/mcn2002/register.htm. If you are
not otherwise attending the MCN conference, please still register
online: complete your name, organization and email address, check the
NINCH Town Hall Meeting option and type "no payment required" under
credit card and expiration date. For questions, call 877.626.3800, or
email <mailto:sarah@xxxxxxxxx>.

For information on all NINCH Copyright Town meetings, see
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/
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Agenda
Creating IP Policy in Museums

The Importance of Institutional IP Policy: The Scope of this Meeting
- Laura N. Gasaway
- Rina Pantalony
- Questions & comment

Institutional IP Policy from an International Perspective
- David Muls [invited]
- Questions & comment

The Process of Policymaking: From I.P. Audit to Valuation and Management
- Maria Pallante
- Questions & comment

OPEN FORUM

Lunch

WORKSHOP:
Putting Together a Museum's IP Policy: A Case Study - Brian Porter
Constructing Values: What to Put into a Policy - Rachelle Brown
Policy Building Scenarios
Report Outs

OPEN FORUM
With All Speakers

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Toronto organizing Committee

Amalyah Keshet, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Rina Pantalony, Canadian Heritage Information Network
Leonard Steinbach, Cleveland Museum of Art
Diane Zorich, Consultant

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