Conference: Connecting Culture and Commerce: Getting the Right Balance

["Jack Boeve" <JBoeve@xxxxxxxx>]

An announcement on behalf of King's Digital Consultancy Services....

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Conference: Connecting Culture and Commerce: Getting the Right Balance
26 January 2007 at the National Gallery, London

Register and find out more at: http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/
<http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/>

The Museums Copyright Group in association with Kings College London are
delighted to announce the following confirmed speakers:

Alan Yentob, BBC's Creative Director, Director of Drama, Entertainment
and CBBC.

Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery.

Jon Snow, Channel Four News presenter and a Trustee of the National
Gallery and Tate Liaison Trustee.

Professor Charles Oppenheim, Head of Information Science, Loughborough
University.

We are also really pleased to announce our expert panel members:

Gretchen Wagner, General Counsel, ARTstor

Sara Milne, CEO, Science and Media LLP

Catherine Draycott, Head, Medical Photographic Library, Wellcome Library
& Chair of BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and
Agencies).

Nick Poole, Director, MDA

Ben White, Copyright and Compliance Manager, British Library

David Ferguson, media composer and Chair of the British Academy of
Composers and Songwriters.



The conference will provide a forum for our high profile expert speakers
and international representatives from the cultural, media, education,
commerce, Government as well as other interested sectors to debate how
to balance cultural and commercial interests. More about the conference
can be found at:
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/ <http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/>

This is a critical time for owners and users of cultural content. Issues
surrounding creative industries, technology and new media together with
discussions about Intellectual Property Rights are being played out at
the highest political levels and the landscape has the potential to be
reshaped dramatically. Cultural heritage organisations need to embrace
these developments and position themselves to ensure that they are
represented as a sector that provides cultural content, free at the
point of access, whilst looking to the rights that they own themselves
to develop models to sustain their core activities and achieve high
levels of service to their commercial users. This conference will
provide an exciting forum to simulate debate and discussion about these
key areas with suppliers and users of cultural content set within one of
the foremost collections of art in the world.


http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/programme.htm



Registration for the conference has now opened at:
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/registration.htm



Naomi Korn
Copyright Consultant
Tel: (020) 8886 1764
Mobile: 07957 761 032
e-mail: naomi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
website: www.naomikorn.com

Connecting Culture and Commerce: Getting the Right Balance 26th January
2007, National Gallery, London
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/index.htm