ARTstor is a non-profit digital library that provides more than one million images of cultural objects and architectural works covering a wide range of historical, political, social, economic, and cultural documentation from prehistory to the present. ARTstor collections enable a wide range of users -- curators, scholars, educators, librarians, and students -- to teach and study with images in an online environment optimized for exploring visual content in new and exciting ways. This meeting will highlight ARTstor collections and platform features, including the Shared Shelf initiative.
Works and Fair Use: Can Bridges Be Built Between Educational Users and Copyright Owners? - Jule Sigall, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft
Organizers: Gretchen Wagner, ARTstor and the VRA Intellectual Property Rights Committee
Moderators: Elisa Lanzi, Imaging Center, Smith College; President, VRAF and Cara Hirsch, Assistant General Counsel, ARTstor
Copyright remains one of the most divisive and challenging topics facing both copyright owners and users. Despite the views of many (both among copyright owners and users) that there should be a distinction between the use of images and other materials in the classroom and for research, and the use of those materials for commercial purposes, finding a consensus on how to draw such distinctions remains elusive. Similarly, though many content providers and users see the value of making orphan works more broadly accessible and usable - and though legislation was supported by the Copyright Office - such legislation (which was particularly opposed by photographers) seems to have died on the vine.
Jule Sigall, who has served as the Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office, which assists the Register of Copyrights in advising Congress and executive branch agencies on domestic and international copyright policy matters, has agreed to speak on his experiences with the orphan works legislation, lessons learned, and the likelihood that similar legislation will be passed in the future.
In his position at the Copyright Office, Jule Sigall (who currently serves as Associate General Counsel to Microsoft), regularly represented the Copyright Office in U.S. government delegations to meetings at the World Intellectual Property Organization, including its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. He has published several articles on copyright law and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on copyright and intellectual property and lectures at Duke University School of Law and The George Washington University Law School, where he is currently an adjunct professor.
VRA Membership Committee Meeting - Elaine Paul, Chair
VRA Travel Awards Committee Meeting - Heidi Eyestone and Victoria Brown, Co-chairs
The official opening event of the Conference. Come to hear ARLIS/NA President Mari Russell and VRA President Maureen Burns welcome you to the 2nd Joint VRA + ARLIS/NA Conference, and honor your colleagues as they receive awards.
Buffet lunch for all conference attendees.
Join your colleagues and new conference friends for a Joint Membership Lunch Buffet. VRA President Maureen Burns and ARLIS/NA President Mari Russell will welcome attendees, followed by the recognition of Travel Awards donors and the presentation of the VRA and ARLIS/NA Travel Awards by Travel Award Chairs Heidi Eyestone, Vicky Brown (VRA) and Rebecca Cooper (ARLIS/NA).
ARLIS/NA Visual Resources Division Meeting - Nicole Finzer, Chair
Introduction by George Slade, Program Manager/Curator, Photographic Resource Center (PRC), Boston
Wing Young Huie is an award-winning photographer who has received international attention for his many projects that document the changing cultural landscape of his home state Minnesota. His best-known work is Lake Street USA, which in the summer and fall of 2000 transformed six miles of a well-known Minneapolis thoroughfare into one of the most remarkable public art projects in recent memory. One of Wing's recent project, 9 Months in America: An Ethnocentric Tour, presents a post 9/11 America; a place where Asians, particularly Chinese, happen to be in the majority. This ambitious, cross-country odyssey frames the complexity, nuance, appropriation, humor, contradictions, and surprises of American life in our time. Whether in epic public installations or major museum exhibitions, Wing creates up-to-the-minute societal mirrors of who we are, seeking to reveal not only what is hidden, but also what is plainly visible and seldom noticed. The Minneapolis Star Tribune named Wing "Artist of the Year" in 2000. His three published books are Frogtown: Photogaphs and Conversation in an Urban Neighborhood, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996, Lake Street USA, Ruminator Books, 2001, and 9 Months in America: An Ethnocentric Tour, University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
