UPCOMING EVENTS
Seminar
Blogging and Media Law
Tuesday, 17th November 2009
Malleson Stephen Jaques, Sydney
Wednesday, 18th November 2009
Melbourne Law School
SPEAKER
Professor Brian Murchison , Washington and Lee University School of Law
COMMENTATOR
Steven Price , New Zealand barrister and blogger
CHAIR: Sydney
The Hon Justice Ruth McColl AO, NSW Court of Appeal
CHAIR: Melbourne
Professor Andrew Kenyon , Melbourne Law School
Sydney and Melbourne Registration Forms
NEW BOOK PUBLICATION
COPYRIGHT AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: GUIDELINES FOR DIGITIZATION FOR U.S. LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS
Peter B. Hirtle, Emily Hudson, and Andrew T. Kenyon
Ithaca , NY : Cornell University Library Press, 2009
Digital communications technologies have led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfil their public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Institutions are developing publicly-accessible websites in which users can visit online exhibitions, search collection databases, access images of collection items, and in some cases create their own digital content. Digitization, however, also raises the possibility of copyright infringement. “Copyright and Digitization” aims to assist understanding and compliance with copyright law across libraries, archives, and museums. It discusses the exclusive rights of the copyright owner, the major exemptions used by cultural heritage institutions, and stresses the importance of risk assessment when conducting any digitization project. It also includes two cases studies, examining digitizing oral histories and student work.
Available for free download at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1495365
Or purchase for US$39.95 at https://www.createspace.com/3405063
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2010 CONFERENCE
Media, Communications and Public Speech
2010 Conference of the CMCL–Centre for Media and Communications Law
University of Melbourne Law School
25-26 November 2010
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
Abstracts due 1 August 2010
Plenary Speakers include
Professor Eva Hemmungs Wirtén , Professor in Library and Information Science, Uppsala University, Sweden. Recent publications include Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons ( 2008 ) and the co-edited Mashing-up Culture: the Rise of Usergenerated Content (2009) .
Professor Peter K Yu , Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law, Drake University Law School, US, whose work includes the edited Handbook on Intellectual Property and Global Development (2010) and the articles ' The Political Economy of Data Protection' and ' Intellectual Property and the Information Ecosystem'.
Associate Professor Lisa M Austin, University of Toronto Faculty of Law , Canada . Publications include the co-edited Technology, Privacy and Justice (2007), the article ‘Information Sharing and the “Reasonable” Ambiguities of s 8 of the Charter' (2007) and the co-written report Model Policy for Access to Court Records in Canada (2005, in collaboration with Judges Technology Advisory Committee for the Canadian Judicial Council).
To print a copy of the Call for Papers click here .
PAST EVENTS INCLUDE
Cultural Collections, Creators and Copyright Conference
State Library of Victoria
23 October 2009
Powerpoints available from here
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