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Moderator: Sonja Staum, Director, Herron Art Library, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Member of the ARLIS/NA Public Policy Committee.
On behalf of the ARLIS/NA Public Policy committee, Sonja will give a brief update on the committee's major activities for the year, including the Society's recent institutional membership with the Center for Intellectual Property.
Speaker: Maureen Whalen is the Associate General Counsel for the J. Paul Getty Trust; she specializes in acquisitions and intellectual property matters. In 2008 and 2009, Whalen co-chaired of the Legal Issues in Museum Administration course of study sponsored by ALI-ABA, the Smithsonian Institution, and the American Association of Museums. She was a member of the Section 108 Study Group convened by the Library of Congress in 2005. She taught Art & Museum Law at Southwestern Law School and Intellectual Property Law for Librarians and Archivists at the University of California, Los Angeles. She writes about the importance of capturing Rights Metadata, including her most recent publication of a rights metadata dictionary. In 2009, she received the Gerd Muehsam Award for her paper What's Wrong With This Picture? An Examination of Art Historians' Attitudes About Electronic Publishing Opportunities and the Consequences of Their Continuing Love Affair with Print. Prior to joining the Trust in 2000, Whalen spent more than twenty years in the cable television industry, including more than twelve years at The Walt Disney Company. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Session Description: The ever changing landscape of technological developments, access strategies, digitization initiatives and intersection with copyright law/policy has often presented image managers with challenging copyright issues and perplexing solutions. Much of the historical conversation about copyright in the image management arena has centered on the role of the federal copyright statute and how image mangers can make policy choices within this framework. This fundamental statutory approach in addressing copyright through policy development is helpful. However, beyond the statutory considerations are the application of community practices, risk management strategies and an understanding of pertinent judicial decisions.
This presentation will review recent developments and current information, such as the Visual Resources Association: Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research and Study, and pertinent judicial decisions pertaining to the use of images, with planned audience interaction with Q&A.