NINCH COPYRIGHT TM: Creating Museum IP Policy: Portland, Oregon, May 22

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                 NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: PORTLAND
              Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World
                 http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/portland.html

             Co-sponsored by the Canadian Heritage Information Network
           and the Intellectual Property Section of the Oregon State Bar

         at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums

              Doubletree Hotel Portland Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
                             Thursday May 22, 9am-4pm

                        Registration Required with AAM: $75
         http://www.aam-us.org/prof_ed/annual_mtg/2003RegistrationForm.pdf
                   [Workshop 64: Intellectual Property Workshop]

             *  Advance Registrations Must Be Received By April 18  *
            After April 18, Registrations (if available) only on-site

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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 the use and distribution of digital content and how do they
go about creating it? "Creating IP Policy in Museums," the subject of
this NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, will attempt to answer these
questions.

This Copyright Town Meeting and Workshop, presented with the Canadian
Heritage Information Network at the Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Museums will be held in the Doubletree Hotel, Portland
- Lloyd Center, on Thursday May 22 9am-4pm.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

* Rachelle Browne, Assistant General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution
* Maria Pallante, Pallante-Hyun LLC, Legal Counsel, Guggenheim
Museum/Foundation
* Rina Elster Pantalony, Legal Counsel, Canadian Heritage Information Network
* David Sturtevant, Head of Collections Information and Access, SFMOMA
* Nicole Vallihres, Director, Collection Management and Information,
McCord Museum of Canadian History
* Diane Zorich, Museum Information Management Consultant; author of
"Developing Museum Intellectual Property Policies".

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The Portland Town Meeting and Workshop will be part presentation,
part practicum. It will open with a definition of what museum
intellectual property policy is, what core values it represents and
why it is important for an institution to have. 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. The specific concerns of
smaller museums will be considered by Nicole Vallihres of Montreal's
McCord Museum of Canadian History. Diane Zorich will then conclude
the first section of the meeting with key lessons learned in the
research and writing of the CHIN/NINCH publication, Developing Museum
Intellectual Property Policies.

In the second half of the meeting two practitioners will examine
policy building. David Sturtevant will report on his experience of
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in developing its intellectual
property policy, while Rachelle Browne 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"
<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html>. This meeting
is also based on a meeting held in Toronto at the MCN Conference on
Creating Museum IP Policy
<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/torontoreport.html>.


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.

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REGISTRATION

Please register for this meeting using the AAM Meeting Registration
Form
(http://www.aam-us.org/prof_ed/annual_mtg/2003RegistrationForm.pdf),
even if you will not attend any other AAM event. Should you not want
to attend any other events at the AAM Meeting, you must still
complete the AAM Registration Form, checking Workshop 64
(Intellectual Property Workshop), but write "WORKSHOP ONLY" for
Registration and $75 for Special Events on the Payment Form (page 3
of the Registration Form). You can mail in the PDF Registration Form,
as long as it is received by April 18. After that registration will
only be accepted at the registration area of the AAM conference in
Portland.

Email and questions to: <ninch@xxxxxxxxx>.

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