Attention all IP SIG members (and friends and interested individuals),
There are several IP-related events taking place at the MCN Toronto conference that I'd like to bring to your attention:
Friday, September 6
Session: The SIG is sponsoring a session entitled, "From Entertainers to Educators: The IP Maze for Museums Online." (9:30-10:30AM) The session will provide an update on and discussion of the primary issues and recent developments in intellectual property management, including policy development, licensing strategies, use of trademarks, and implications of recent copyright legislation and rulings. The stellar panelists include: Lesley Ellen Harris, Copyright and New Media Lawyer; Andrea Rush, Heenan Blaikie; Tyler Ochoa, Whittier Law School; Richard Weisgrau, American Society of Media Photographers. Co-moderators are Rina Pantalony, Canadian Heritage Information Network, and Amalyah Keshet, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
IP SIG Meeting: The annual meeting of the IP SIG will take place on Friday, September 6, at 4:15PM. We will initially meet in the Main Lobby of the Toronto Hilton. When all are assembled, we will move to a local Toronto watering hole (research on a suitable spot is being conducted by a stalwart IP SIG member, as we speak). Anyone interested in IP issues is most welcome. (We are an informal group -- you can become a member simply by calling yourself one!)
Saturday, September 7
NINCH Town Meeting/Workshop: Creating IP Policy in Museums Today (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
This copyright town meeting will open with several speakers defining what policy is, what values it represents and why it is important for an institution to have an intellectual property policy. A keynote address will set the question of the role of institutional policy within an international context. Museum legal expert Maria Pallante will then demonstrate the key steps for a museum in preparing policy.
In the second half of the meeting two practitioners will examine policy building. Brian Porter will report on his experience at the Royal Ontario Museum, while Rachelle Brown will examine the importance of understanding an institution's larger values in constructing policy. Both talks
will serve to introduce a workshop in which several scenarios invite the construction of policies by participants. The results, and the issues and values they demonstrate, will be discussed by a final panel of all the speakers. As with all NINCH Copyright Town meetings there will be plenty of time for discussion and an open forum for participants and panelists to discuss a range of copyright issues related to the networking of cultural heritage resources. See http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.html for more details.
We look forward to seeing everyone in Toronto!
Diane Zorich
IP SIG Chair
