Who Owns This Image?

Art, Access, and the Public Domain after Bridgeman v. Corel

Public Panel Discussion Cosponsored by: Art Law Committee, New York City Bar Association, College Art Association, ARTstor Creative Commons

Panelists: Dr. Theodore Feder, President, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society Christopher Lyon, Executive Editor, Prestel Publishing William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google Hon. Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit Maureen Whalen, Associate General Counsel, J. Paul Getty Trust Moderator: Virginia Rutledge, Chair, Art Law Committee, New York City Bar

A promising lecture on Fair Use is being webcast from Washington College of Law. All reports are that Judge Kozinski should not be missed.

Thursday Sept 21, 2006.
6pm American University Washington College of Law's
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
Presents
The Second Annual Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property
The Honorable Alex Kozinski Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

"Fair Use Revisited”
September 21, 2006
Reception ~ 5:00 PM | Lecture ~ 6:00 PM
Washington College of Law, 4801 Mass Ave NW | Room 603

REGISTRATION
Email: iplecture@wcl.american.edu
Phone: 202-274-4148
www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/Kozinski.cfm

WEBCAST
We will be providing a streaming and on demand webcast of the lecture for those who are unable to make it to Washington. The webcast will be available at www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm.

Here, courtesy of CNI, is the announcement of a report from the British Academy on the impact of copyright issues on the current state of humanities and social science:

COPYRIGHT HINDERING SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Date: 18 September 2006

"A report from the British Academy, launched on 18 September, expresses fears that the copyright system may in important respects be impeding, rather than stimulating, the production of new ideas and new scholarship in the humanities and social sciences....”
See http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/release.asp?NewsID=219