** Apologies for any repeated postings ** Conference: Connecting Culture and Commerce: Getting the Right Balance 26 January 2007 at the National Gallery 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, Chair of BAPLA and Head of Medical Library, Wellcome Trust Nick Poole, Director, MDA Ben White, Copyright and Compliance Manager, British Library 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>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>http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/mcg2007/registration.htm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 Connecting Culture and Commerce Conference: January 2007, National Gallery http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/mcg2007/