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
                       1000 NE Multnomah St Portland, Oregon
                             Thursday May 22, 9am-4pm

                              PRE-REGISTER WITH NINCH

                         On-Site Registration (May 18-21)
                           Also Required with AAM: $75

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          Continuing Legal Education Credit Available, Pending Approval

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Intellectual Property is arguably the museum's most valuable asset in
the 21st century. Managed prudently, it can increase revenues from
licensing programs while maintaining low risks in both the commercial
and non-commercial/academic environments in this communication and
media age. However, good management depends on good policy, as many
museums are discovering.

Frequent questions on this topic include:

* Why do we need to develop policy in order to manage IP?
* What is museum IP and how do we determine what our institution owns?
* What can our institution gain from this exercise?
* Is an IP policy effective for all institutions, large and small?
* Are all disciplines covered or is this just for image-rich museum
collections only?

In response to such queries, and to introduce a book on this subject
by Diane Zorich, to be co-published this summer by NINCH and the
Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), we are co-hosting an
all-day workshop on May 22, 2003, at the Doubletree Hotel, Portland -
Lloyd Center, 9am-4pm, as part of the American Association of Museums
Annual Meeting.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

* Rachelle Browne, Assistant General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution
* Maria Pallante-Hyun, 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. Rina Pantalony (CHIN Legal Counsel) will open with a
definition of what museum intellectual property policy is, what core
values it represents and why it is critical for an institution to
develop one. Museum legal expert Maria Pallante-Hyun will then
analyze the key issues to consider when preparing policy and will
discuss the value of an "I.P. Audit." The specific concerns of
smaller museums will be considered by Nicole Vallihres of Montreal's
McCord Museum of Canadian History and author Diane Zorich will
conclude part one of the meeting with key lessons learned in the
research and writing of the forthcoming 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

Although you will need to register on-site with AAM in Portland (May
18-May 21), please also PRE-REGISTER using the simple online form at
<http://d.cni.org:591/ninch-portland/>.

On-site registration takes place only during the following hours at
the Portland Convention Center, in the Lobby of Exhibit Hall C (see
plan on NINCH website).

Registration hours are only as follows:
Sunday, May 18: 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Monday, May 19: 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 20: 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 21: 8:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Email questions to: <ninch@xxxxxxxxx>.

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