Copyright: The Archivist and the Law #1111

Aug 9, 2010, - Aug 10, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Event Location: Marriott (Lincoln 5)

THIS EVENT IS FULL.
Please call toll-free 1-866-722-7858 to place your name on the waiting list.

Instructors/Speakers

William J. Maher
University Archivist and Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Description

Members
(Advance/Regular)

Employees of Member Institutions
(Advance/Regular)

Nonmembers
(Advance/Regular)

$289 / 339

$329 / 379

$369 /419

This two-day workshop provides you with the basis for administration of copyright in daily archives work. One of the professions acknowledged experts, William Maher, brings you up to date on issues you need to track in the current age of information commerce including an assessment of the bad news and the good news in the Supreme Court’s Eldred decision.

During this workshop you’ll:

  1. Recognize the complex issues relating to authors’, owners’, and users’ rights in intellectual property;
  2. Obtain grounding in the historical rationale for copyright law, including major legislative and judicial developments;
  3. Discover the relevance of U.S. federal law for archives and manuscripts;
  4. Examine the current law; and
  5. Determine the sequence of decision making needed for your management of copyright issues.

Participants are invited to submit specific questions related to copyright within their own institutions up to two weeks prior to the workshop start date.

Who should attend? Archivists and other professionals who have copyright concerns.

Attendance is limited to 30.

 

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