[MCN-L] Google and MCN 2006 Pasadena

[Amalyah Keshet]

I want to extend a personal invitiation to everyone to attend what promises to 
be a very timely session at this year's MCN conference in Pasadena.  It's one 
of the last sessions of the conference, and I think it will send us home with a 
lot to think about in terms of the cultural environment in which we live and 
work.




   Searching for Fair Use: How Google's Copyright Battles Will Affect Access to 
Assets
   Saturday Nov. 11, 10:30
   Sponsored by MCN's IP SIG 
   Participants: Tyler Ochoa, Santa Clara University; Jonathan Band, 
policybandwidth.com; and Guy Pessach, The Hebrew University of
   Jerusalem and the Yale Information Society Project.Moderator: Amalyah 
Keshet, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

   The cultural heritage constituency has been or should be following with 
interest Google's current copyright battles. The outcome of these   
   controversies and court cases will clearly have an impact on how we will 
provide and access digital assets in cultural heritage institutions  
   in the future. Google Print, Google Library, Google Search, the Perfect 10 
v. Google Inc. thumbnail images case, as well as other similar 
   cases and the issues behind them will all be explored by a panel of 
user-friendly legal experts. Roundtable discussion will be 
   encouraged.




For those of you who want to do a little reading before the session, here's a 
start:

COPYRIGHT JUNGLE By Siva Vaidhyanathan   Columbia Journalism Review, 
September / October 2006
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2006/5/Vaidhyanathan.asp

See you there.

Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources  Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Chair, MCN IP SIG

[MCN-L] IP SIG: British Library calls for a serious updating of current copyright law

[Amalyah Keshet]

Try putting this one on a bumper sticker:  Unless there is a serious updating 
of copyright law ...the law becomes an ass.

Strong words, and timely.

Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources  Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Chair, MCN IP SIG

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The British Library has called for a serious updating of current copyright 
law to unambiguously include digital content and take technological advances 
into account. 

In a manifesto released on Monday at the Labor Party Conference in Manchester, 
the United Kingdom's national library warned that the country's traditional 
copyright law needs to be extended to fully recognize digital content. 

Unless there is a serious updating of copyright law to recognize the changing 
technological environment, the law becomes an ass, Lynne Brindley, chief 
executive of the British Library, told ZDNet UK. 

Digital rights management (DRM) technologies and licensing agreements currently 
can impose restrictions on copying content that go beyond the requirements of 
copyright law. This needs legal clarification, according to the British 
Library. 

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6119043.html