[MCN-L] IP SIG: CAA Conference Sessions on Art Publishing, Copyright, and Related Issues

2007-02-08 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Yet another worthwhile copyright event in New York -- and another request 
that anyone who attends report to the MCN IP constituency.

Amalyah Keshet
Chair, MCN IP SIG

-- 

 As you know, the College Art Association Annual Conference takes place 
 next
 week in New York City, at the Hilton Hotel, 6th Avenue at 53rd Street.

 I want to call your attention to a number of sessions and events (see 
 below=
 )
 that address questions of art and image copyrights and uses, publishing, 
 an=
 d
 other related issues. This year we have an exceptionally rich roster of 
 suc=
 h
 sessions. I attach a list of them, with times and locations.

 For those of you who do not normally attend the CAA Conference, 
 information
 about it is available here: http://conference.collegeart.org/2007/ 
 Includin=
 g
 a complete roster of conference sessions and other events. Single-day 
 passe=
 s
 are available.

 Please note that Reexamining Appropriation, Part I has been moved 
 offsite
 and will take place at the New York City Bar Association on 44th Street.
 Please see the flyer below. This panel will be of exceptional interest, 
 and
 includes the Hon. Pierre Leval, of the US Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit.
*This event is open to the public, free of charge. *(The information in the
 published conference program is incorrect.)

 Best regards,
 Eve Sinaiko
 Director of Publications
 College Art Association

 
 CAA Sessions on Art Publishing


 Thursday, Feb. 15, 5:30 =96 7:00 pm

 A Plea for Leniency: Image Rights and Fees for
 Scholarly Publications
 Gibson Room, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chair: Inge Reist, Frick Art Reference Library, Association
 of Research Institutes in Art History

 Architectural History Online: The Challenges of Digital Research and
 Publication
 Petit Trianon, 3rd floor, Hilton New York
 Chair: Hilary Ballon, Columbia University, Society of Architectural
 Historians

 Friday, Feb. 16, 10:00 am =96 12:30 pm

 Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law,
 and Beyond, Part I
 New York City Bar Association Great Hall
 42 W. 44th Street
 Chairs: Martha Buskirk, Montserrat College of Art;
 Virginia Rutledge, Cravath, Swaine  Moore LLP

 The Hon. Pierre N. Leval, United States Court of Appeals
 for the Second Circuit

 Inappropriate? Copying in the Renaissance, Lisa Pon, Meadows School of the
 Arts, SMU

 The Reign of the Quotation=97Appropriation and Its
 Audience, Johanna Burton, Princeton University

 From Appropriation to Postproduction, Jaimey Hamilton, University of
 Hawai'i, Manoa

 William Patry, Google

 Friday, Feb. 16, 12:30 =96 2:00 pm

 Fair Use in the Trenches: When to Seek Permission and
 When Not To
 Gramercy B, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chair: David Green, Knowledge Culture, CAA Committee
 on Intellectual Property

 Fair Use: Lessons from the Past to Help with Present Decisions, Siva
 Vaidhyanathan, New York University

 Legal Perspectives, Gretchen Wagner, ARTstor

 Fair Use and Visual Resource Collections, Benjamin
 Kessler, visual resources professional, Chicago
 Friday, Feb. 16, 5:30 =96 7:00 pm

 The Qualities of Enduring Art Publications
 Gramercy B, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chair: Susan Chun, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Libraries Association 
 of
 North America

 Kraig Binkowski, Yale Center for British Art
 Max Marmor, ARTstor
 Sharon Helgason Gallagher, Distributed Art Publishers

 Saturday, Feb. 17, 9:30 am =96 noon

 Art Catalogues Then and Now
 Nassau Suite, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chairs: Susan F. Rossen, Art Institute of Chicago; Martha M. Ward,
 University of Chicago, Association of Art Editors

 Saturday, Feb. 17, 12:30 =96 2:00 pm

 Issues in Art History Publishing
 Gramercy B, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chairs: Catherine Soussloff, University of California, Santa Cruz; William
 Tronzo, Stanford Humanities Center, CAA Publications Committee

 Mari=EBt Westermann, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
 Susan Bielstein, University of Chicago Press
 Patricia Rubin, Courtauld Institute of Art

 Saturday, Feb. 17,  2:30 =96 5:00 pm

 Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and
 Beyond, Part II
 Beekman Parlor, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chairs: Martha Buskirk, Montserrat College of Art; Virginia Rutledge,
 Cravath, Swaine  Moore LLP

 Stopped Making Sense: Appropriation as a 1970s Social Phenomenon
 Sarah Evans, Cornell University

 The Problematic of the Signature: Reexamining Appropriation in 
 Contemporary
 Indigenous Art and Cultural Heritage, Tressa Berman, San Francisco Art
 Institute

 Art Appropriation and Identity
 Sharon Matt Atkins, Currier Museum of Art

 Art and Activism: The Xingwei of Wang Hai and Zhao Bandi
 Winnie Wong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 Discussant: Arindam Dutta

 _

 Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and Beyond

 Friday, February 16, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm


 New York City Bar Association
 Great Hall
 42 W. 44th Street
 (between 5th and 6th Avenues)


 A discussion of 

[MCN-L] [Digital Media SIG] Thoughts for a Digital Media SIG sponsored session or two?

2007-02-08 Thread Tim Au Yeung
Hi all,

It's that time of year again -- I'm pulling together proposals for the 
Digital Media SIG sponsored session.

I'm welcoming any suggestions for

1. Topics
2. Speakers
3. Any combination thereof

So put on your thinking caps and toss me your best ideas.

Thanks,
Tim

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Tim Au Yeung
Manager, Digital Object Repository Technology
Libraries and Cultural Resources
University of Calgary
(403) 220-8975
ytau(at)ucalgary(dot)ca