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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/

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/

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 at naomikorn.com
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






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