Copyright Town Meetings

Since 1997, NINCH has organized Copyright Town Meetings across the nation, bringing the basic facts about copyright law and recent copyright issues to wide audiences in the educational and cultural communities. These not only educate but also provide a forum for sharing copyright concerns with assembled experts.

• 2003
  • February 22: New York City. College Art Association Conference. Digital Publishing: A Practical Guide to Rights Challenges in the Electronic Environment for Artists, Museums, Authors, Publishers and Readers.
    • Report (PDF)
    • Speaker Biographies (PDF)
    • Resources (PDF)
  • April 12: Cleveland. Cleveland. Cleveland Museum of Art. Copyright for Artists and their Public: Artists Rights and Art’s Rights.
    • Report (PDF)
    • Summary Report (PDF)
    • Resources (PDF)
  • May 22: Portland, OR. American Association of Museum Conference. Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World.
    • Introduction & Agenda (PDF)
    • Resources (PDF)
• 2002
  • 2001-2 Draft Summary Report (PDF)
  • September 30: Atlanta, GA. Georgia Institute for Technology. Media Issues In The Digital Age: Copyright Strategies For Culture & Education. 
    • Introduction & Agenda (PDF)
    • Speaker Biographies (PDF)
    • Resources (PDF)
  • September 7: Toronto, ON. Museum Computer Network Conference. Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World.
    • Report (PDF)
    • Summary Report (PDF)
    • Open Forum 1 & 2 (PDF)
  • March 23: St. Louis, MO. ARLIS/VRA Conference. The Information Commons Today.
    • Report (PDF)
    • Summary Report (PDF)
• 2001
  • November 19: Eugene, OR. University of Oregon. Creating Policy in Universities.
    • Report, Open Forum, & Exercise (PDF)
    • Speaker Biographies (PDF)
  • October 27: Cincinnati, OH. Museum Computer Network Conference. New Strategies, New Contexts.
    • Report (PDF)
  • September 24: New York City, NY. New York Public Library. Intellectual Property and Multimedia in the Digital Age.
    • Report (PDF)
    • Speaker Biographies (PDF)
  • June 28: Denver, CO. University of Denver. Copyright & Primary Source Materials.
    • Report & Resources (PDF)
    • Speaker Biographies (PDF)
  • April 25: Houston, TX. Rice University. Copyright Perspectives. 
    • Report & Open Forum (PDF)
    • Speaker Biographies (PDF)
  • March 3: Chicago, IL. College Art Association Conference. Licensing Initiatives for Scholars and Teachers: Contributions from the Copyright Industry and other Resources. 
    • Report (PDF)
•  2000
  • 2000 Draft Summary Report (PDF)
  • May 18: Baltimore, MD. American Association of Museums Annual Meeting. Copyright Confusion? Community Guides.
    • Report (PDF)
  • April 5: San Francisco, CA. Visual Resources Association Conference. The Public Domain: Implied, Inferred and in Fact. 
    • Meeting Report (PDF)
    • Kathleen Butler, “The Originality Requirement: Preventing the Copy Photography End-Run Around the Public Domain.” (PDF)
  • March 7: Chapel Hill, NC. Triangle Research Libraries Network. Distance Education.
    • Report (PDF)
  • February 26: New York City, NY. New York Museum of Modern Art/College Art Association. Conference Tug of War between Faculty, University, and Publisher.
    • Report (PDF)
    • Robert Baron, “Comments Prepared for the NINCH Copyright Town Meeting.” (PDF)
    • Christine L. Sundt, “The State of the Question Regarding Copyright, Fair Use and Intellectual Property in the Arts.” (PDF)
  • February 4: Syracuse, NY. Syracuse University. Access: The DMCA and Digital Copyright Issues.
    • •  Report (PDF)
  • January 11: Chicago, IL. Chicago Historical Society. The Public Domain.
    • • Report (PDF)
      • Speaker Bios (PDF)
      • Diane Zorich, “Why the Public Domain is not just a Mickey Mouse Issue.” (PDF)

• 1997-8
  • 1997-8 Final Report (PDF)
  • 1997-8 Summary Report: Themes in the Town Meetings (PDF)
  • February 26, 1998: Toronto, ON. College Art Association Conference. Copyright and Fair Use in the Digital World: Views from the Worlds of Scholarship, Publishing and Museums 
    • Report (PDF)
  • September 26-7, 1997. Portland, OR. Reed College. Copyright Law in the Digital World: Fair Use, Education and Libraries After CONFU. 
    • Report (PDF)
  • April 27, 1997: Atlanta: GA. American Association of Museums Annual Meeting. Fair Use of Digital Images.
    • Report (PDF)
    • A Proposal for Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images (PDF)
  • April 4, 1997. Indianapolis, IN. Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis. Fair Use, Education and Libraries: A Town Meeting to Examine the Conference on Fair Use. 
    • Report (PDF)
    • Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property in a Digital Environment (PDF)
      • Compact Version (PDF)
  • February 16, 1997: New York. NY. College Art Association Conference. Fair Use of Digital Images. 
    • Report (PDF)