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
