Dear All FYI - see the WIPO press release below.
The author, Rina Pantalony, used my research funded by the Mellon on US Art Museums and we were in conversation a couple of times about various things (including South Africa). Is good to get the research noticed and used in a WIPO guide. I'd like to thank again all those involved in it - the results are making an impact even now! Link to my research at: http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/USart.htm Best, Simon >From: "Lucinda Longcroft" <Lucinda.Longcroft at wipo.int> >Subject: WIPO Publishes a Guide on Managing IP for Museums (by Rina > Pantalony) > >WIPO PRESS RELEASE > >PR/2007/505 >Geneva, July 31, 2007 > >WIPO Publishes a Guide on Managing IP for Museums > >Museums, and the broader cultural heritage >community, now have access to a new guide, >commissioned by the World Intellectual Property >Organization (WIPO), to help them use the >intellectual property (IP) system to improve the >management of their collections in the digital environment. > >The ???WIPO Guide on Managing Intellectual >Property for Museums??? by Ms. Rina Elster >Pantalony - a Canadian expert on these issues - >recognizes the important role that IP plays in >providing access to collections, and in >preserving and managing the valuable works they >contain. Copyright and trademark law in >particular are of growing importance to museums >in fulfilling their mandates and meeting >users??? needs. Effective management of IP >rights will enable museums to harness the >Internet as an educational and communications tool. > >In the digital age, the cultural heritage >community is increasingly faced with the >responsibility of managing its own IP, as well >as managing uses by third parties and users >throughout the world, often on diminishing >budgets. Effective use of the IP system allows >museums to meet international standards of best >practice, and can offer significant >opportunities to leverage their goodwill, >authenticity, uniqueness and scholarly expertise >to generate a return on investment. > >The first part of the Guide describes IP issues >of relevance to museums such as rights in >scholarly content, technologies developed >in-house, and branding tools that provide >recognition and awareness of the museum in a >commercial context. It also sets out >recommended best practices in managing IP to >enable a museum to identify its IP, understand >its rights in using its collections, and >strengthen its ability to deal with critical IP >issues as they arise. The second part of the >Guide reviews existing business models that >could provide museums with appropriate >opportunities to create sustainable funding, and >deliver on their stated objectives. > >The WIPO Guide is now available on-line at: >http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/museums_ip/. A >printed version of the Guide will be available shortly. > >For further information, please contact the >Media Relations and Public Affairs Section at WIPO: >??? Tel: (+41 22) - 338 81 61 or 338 95 47 >??? Fax: (+41 22) - 338 82 80 >??? Email: publicinf at wipo.int ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1678 or +44 (0)7887 691716 email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk www.digitalconsultancy.net
