>From Amalyah Keshet, Israel Museum: -------------------- Orphan Works Testimony, House Judiciary Intellectual Property Subcommittee March 8
Many thanks to Diane Zorich for bringing this important opportunity for action to the attention of MCN President Marla Misunas, and to the MCN Board of Directors for signing MCN on as a supporter. "Maria Pallante-Hyun, Associate General Counsel and Director of Licensing at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/Guggenheim Museum (and a frequent MCN speaker at IP SIG sessions at MCN conferences), will be presenting important testimony on behalf of the cultural heritage community at the House Judiciary Intellectual Property Subcommittee hearing on Orphan Works (i.e., works whose copyright owner cannot be located). The hearing is slated for Wednesday, March 8th, at 2:00 PM on Capital Hill. Maria and attorneys from many other museums have been spearheading the orphan works initiative on behalf of cultural heritage organizations. This opportunity to testify in front of the House Judiciary IP Subcommittee to lay out the concerns that cultural organizations have with orphan works legislation is very important. Organizations "signing on" to the testimony include AAM, ALA, ARTStor, JSTOR and CAA. We want to emphasize that a strong showing of consensus for Maria's testimony is critically important for achieving an Orphan Works legislative solution that best meets all of our needs." "The issue of orphan works is of great importance to MCN's constituency. Our members' attempts to make museum collections and archival information accessible to the public are often thwarted by their inability to locate copyright owners. They frequently have to keep materials from public programming because copyright ownership cannot be determined and their institutions cannot assume the risks of potential infringements. We believe Ms. Pallante-Hyun's testimony crystalizes our concerns and outlines a positive and equitable way of addressing the orphan works issue. Implementing her suggestions would result in an outpouring of previously "off-limits" materials, resulting in untold research and educational opportunities." Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:19:55 -0500 From: "Diane M. Zorich" <dzor...@mindspring.com> Subject: IP SIG: Fwd: RE: Orphan works Testimony For those true policy wonks out there, Maria Pallante-Hyun's testimony on behalf of museums and orphan works legislation can be seen live on March 8 at 2:00PM: http://judiciary.house.gov/oversight.aspx?ID=22 or http://judiciary.house.gov/schedule.aspx Diane M. Zorich 113 Gallup Road Princeton, NJ 08542 USA Voice: 609-252-1606 Fax: 609-252-1607 Email: dzor...@mindspring.com Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Chair, MCN IP SIG The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you You are currently subscribed to MCN-L, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (www.mcn.edu). To post messages to this list, send emails to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to mcn-unsubscr...@lists.mediatrope.com with any message. If you are receiving messages as they are posted and wish to change to daily digest format, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with "SET mcn-l DIGEST" in the BODY of the message. If you are receiving messages in the daily digest format and wish to recieve them as they are posted, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with "SET mcn-l MAIL"
