[node-l] Tuesday 28th April 12 noon - Digital Access: Collections, Creators and Copyright

[Gini Simpson]

Tuesday 28th April 12 noon 
Digital Access: Collections, Creators and Copyright 
Andrew Kenyon, Bronac Ferran, Paul Gerhardt 


Digital communications technologies offer important ways for museums,
galleries and libraries to promote public access to their collections.
However, digital access also raises issues of copyright law and can affect
the interests of creators and copyright owners. Professor Andrew Kenyon
(Distinguished Fellow in Law, Queen Mary, University of London and Director,
CMCL-Centre for Media and Communications Law, University of Melbourne) will
examine recent research into the perceived conflicts between the users of
copyright material in the cultural sector, and creators and other copyright
owners. The Australian experience will be discussed with the aid of
commentators from the London creative sector. 

Bronac Ferran is a freelance writer, researcher and arts consultant who also
works part-time as a Visiting Lecturer in the Industrial Design Engineering
department at the Royal College of Art in London . She is involved in
projects in Brazil, China and the US and is a founder member of the
bricolabs initiative which has members worldwide. Her work in the UK
includes contributing to the ACE funded Art and Law initiative.

Dr Paul Gerhardt leads the UK's Creative Archive Licence Group - a
consortium of public and commercial broadcasters and archives developing a
shared public access strategy. He was joint director of the BBC Creative
Archive.

This event is free of charge. 

Venue: Clinical Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building, Queen Mary
University, Mile End  
Time: 12 noon 
Booking and Directions;
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/artsweek2009/programme/tuesday/index.html#digital

 
Gini Simpson
Queen Mary Innovation Ltd
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road 
London
E1 4NS
Tel: +44(0)2078827003
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