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Another in a series of highly successful town meetings on intellectual
property issues.
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INCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: ATLANTA
Presented in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
"Media Issues in the Digital Age:
Copyright Strategies for Education and Culture"
www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/atlanta.html
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Monday September 30, 9am-5pm
Free of Charge * Open to All
Registration Required: streamingquill.com/contract/NINCH
This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation and support from the Graduate School of the Georgia Institute
of Technology.
The 20th NINCH Copyright Town Meeting will be hosted in Atlanta by the
Georgia Institute of Technology, The Ivan Allen College and its School
of Literature, Communication, and Culture. It will be held at the
Institute's Student Center Ballroom on Monday September 30, 9am-5pm. The
meeting is open to all and is free of charge, but registration is
required.
Although copyright law was originally written with text documents in
mind, the Internet and its increasingly wide bandwidth capabilities are
demanding changes. Napster dramatized the issues and as a result
commercial companies are scrambling to adjust their business models.
Recent decisions about license fees for radio webcasting, concerns about
movie piracy and the arrival of the TEACH Act have brought into focus
many of the media issues that have to be solved.
What are the implications of these issues for the educational and
cultural communities in the management, use and re-use of media online?
Are film studios so concerned about piracy that they will not give
permission for classroom use? Is licensing the only answer for digital
access to media and will it be prohibitively expensive for teachers and
researchers? Is there a way to get automated permissions? Is Fair Use
still a viable option for online use of media? What other issues are
preventing the online distribution of our rich heritage in dance?
Building on a 2001 Copyright Town Meeting held at the New York Public
Library, the Atlanta Town Meeting will examine the challenges and
consider practical strategies for taking advantage of the digital
promise using media online.
Program
The local organizing committee has assembled a first-rate team of
speakers taking advantage of the rich legal and media talent available
in the Atlanta region, together with national experts in the fields of
copyright and media law.
The meeting will open with two internationally known copyright experts,
L. Ray Patterson and Joseph Beck, giving their views on the key digital
issues that have serious implications for the deployment and use of
sound and moving images online. These will include the TEACH Act and the
recent webcasting licensing fee decision, among others. Patterson is
universally known for his classic work, Copyright in Historical
Perspective and Joseph Beck is now probably best known as the lead
counsel for the defendant in "The Wind Done Gone" case.
The major part of the meeting will be divided between Film, Television,
the Performing Arts and Sound, each panel taking a different perspective
on the issues of access to material, getting permission to use and
re-use material, and what is permissible and fair use in research, in
the classroom and online.
As with all NINCH Copyright Town Meetings there will be time for
questions and discussions throughout the program and the session will
end with a FORUM session for all participants
Featured speakers:
* Ruta Abolins, Director, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody
Awards Collection, University of Georgia
* Philip Auslander, Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and
Culture, Georgia Tech
* Joseph Beck, Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP; Adjunct Professor of
Copyright Law and of the First Amendment, Emory University
* Kathy Christensen, Vice-President, News Archives and Research, CNN
* Paul Gherman, University Librarian, Vanderbilt University
* Jerry Goldman, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern
University.
* TyAnna K. Herrington, Associate Professor, School of Literature
Communication, and Culture
* Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law
* Robert Kolker, Chair, School of Literature, Communication, and
Culture
* Patrick Loughney, Head, Moving Image Section, Motion Picture
Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress
* Horace Newcomb, Lambdin Kay Distinguished Professor for the Peabody
Awards at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication,
University of Georgia
* Madeleine Nichols, Curator of the Dance Collection, The New York
Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
* L. Ray Patterson, Pope Brock Professor of Law, University of Georgia
* Russ Reeder, President & CEO, RightsLine, Inc.
The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings seek to balance expert opinion and
audience participation on the basics of copyright law, the implications
of copyright online, recent changes in copyright law and practice, and
practical issues related to the networking of cultural heritage
materials. The program will include plenty of time for audience
questions, comments and discussion.
Register online at <http://streamingquill.com/contract/NINCH>. Lunch can
be purchased at the food court of the Student Center, and a special room
will be set up for participants to enjoy it.
Maps and directions can be found on the Town Meeting web site:
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/atlanta.html
For information on all NINCH Copyright Town meetings, see
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/
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Agenda
* Welcome & Introductions
Sue Rosser, Dean of the Ivan Allen College, the Humanities and Social
Sciences, Georgia Institute for Technology
Robert Kolker, School of Literature, Communication and Culture
David Green, NINCH
* An Overview: Digital Copyright Issues Today and Tomorrow
Joseph Beck, "The Transformative Use Defense to Copyright Infringement"
L. Ray Patterson, "The Unconstitutionality of the DMCA."
* FILM: Getting Permission - Four Perspectives
TBA,
Robert Kolker, "Rights & Permissions: Difficult But Possible"
Patrick Loughney, "An Archival Perspective"
Russ Reeder, "RightsLine: Automated (and affordable) Permissions"
* TV: Access and Use of the Archives
Paul Gherman, "Vanderbilt University Television News Archive: Online
Access?"
Horace Newcomb, "The Peabody Awards: Building A Collection of Electronic
Media Based on Definitions of Excellence."
Ruta Abolins,
Kathy Christensen, "CNN: Granting Permission for Educational Use of
Material"
Lunch
* Afternoon Keynote:
TyAnna K. Herrington, "Copyright for Academics"
* PERFORMING ARTS: Preservation and Access in the Performing Arts: the
Leading Rights Issues
Philip Auslander, "You Don't Own Me: Intellectual Property and
Performance"
Madeleine Nichols, "Challenges for Accessing Performance Online"
* SOUND: Copyright & Permissions
Jerry Goldman, "Teaching with Sound: a practical proposal for using
sound
resources."
Peter Jaszi, "Sound Issues"
* FORUM
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