Robert Baron. As chair of the CAA Committee on Intellectual
Property, Robert Baron has organized four
NINCH Copyright Town Meetings held in conjunction with the annual
meeting of CAA. In addition, he has contributed papers to Town Meetings
held in Portland, Oregon; San
Francisco (for the Visual Resources Association),
Baltimore (for a meeting of the
American Association of Museums) and St. Louis (for VRA and ARLIS). He
has written on intellectual property issues pertaining to the interests
of art historians ("Digital
Fever A Scholar's Copyright Dilemma," in Museum Management and
Curatorship), and edited the volume "Copyright
and Fair Use, The Great Image Debate" for Visual Resources
for which he serves on the editorial board. Robert also serves on the NINCH
Copyright Town Meeting Planning Committee. With Jeffrey Cunard and
Kathleen Cohen, he has drafted a
CAA position paper on distance education for submission to the
Copyright Office. His study of the use of metaphor as a tactic in
intellectual property conflicts (Reconstructing
the Public Domain) will appear in future issues of the VRA Bulletin.
Most recently he addressed the International Foundation for Art Research
(IFAR) on the
significance of the
Supreme Court Challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) to the artist and art historian members of the College Art
Association.
Robert Baron maintains a popular web-site
dedicated to exploring the significance of the many parodies and
variants of the Mona Lisa, and has published on the topic of monalisiana
in the journal Visual Resources. His latest article includes an extended review essay of
three works -- the James Mayhew children's book Katie and the Mona
Lisa, on firecracker labels and on the digital "photomosaic"
portraits of Robert Silvers (Visual Resources 17,3).
In the past, Robert has taught art history, served as computer
consultant and
systems analyst to museums and, as project manager, helped guide the
Academic Image
Cooperative through its Prototype phase.
He is currently preparing a catalogue raisonné of the graphic works
of the sixteenth-century graphic artist Barnard Salomon. Robert holds a
B.A. from Harpur College, an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New
York University, and, currently has complete all but a dissertation for
a Ph.D. at the IFA.
web-site: http://www.studiolo.org
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Susan Chun is
General Manager for Electronic Information Planning at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York, where she is responsible for long-term
strategies for many of the Museum's intellectual property activities.
Her current focus is on developing electronic publishing projects in
many formats for a scholarly audience. She advises the Museum in a
number of other areas, including the intersection of print and
electronic publishing projects, collection documentation and imaging,
asset management, and the development of new guidelines and procedures
for intellectual property administration. She sits on the Board of
Directors of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and served as the
first chairperson of its editorial committee. Before assuming her
current role at the Met, Susan was Senior Editor and Marketing Manager
in the Museum's Editorial Department. She has previously worked in
publishing at the Asia Society, Alfred A. Knopf, and the Philadelphia
Museum of Art, and is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. She speaks
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Kenneth Crews is a Professor in the
Indiana
University School of Law-Indianapolis and in the
IU School of
Library and Information Science. He is also Associate Dean of the
Faculties for Copyright Management, and in that capacity he directs
the
Copyright
Management Center based at
Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Professor Crews
brings a variety of academic and professional experiences to his
duties at the university. He earned his undergraduate degree in
history from Northwestern University and received his law degree from
Washington University in St. Louis. He practiced general business and
corporate law in Los Angeles from 1980 to 1990, primarily for the
entertainment industry. During those years, Crews returned to graduate
school and he earned his M.L.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA's School
of Library and Information Science.
His principal research interest has been the
relationship of copyright law to the needs of higher education. His
first copyright book, Copyright, Fair Use, and the
Challenge for Universities: Promoting the Progress of Higher Education,
was published by The University of Chicago Press in October 1993, and it
reevaluates understandings of copyright in the context of teaching and
research at the university. A more recent book,
Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators, published by
the American Library Association in late 2000, is an instructive
overview of copyright law. Crews has been an invited speaker on college
and university campuses and at conferences in 37 states, D.C., and 5
foreign countries.
Crews brings a wide range of experience to the task.
He has been a faculty member in three disciplines: law, business, and
library and information science. His publications encompass the fields
of copyright, constitutional law, political history, and library
science. He has worked in a university archives and conducted historical
research on windmills and tide mills on Long Island, NY for the National
Park Service. In rare moments of recreation Crews enjoys bicycling,
hiking, astronomy, archeology, art, and early rock and roll. He has a
splendid and supportive wife (who looks back fondly on six years in UCLA
family housing pressed against the San Diego Freeway) and two perfect
children (who contemplate putting copyright notices on their school
projects).
"My philosophy about copyright is the same as about a
hobby: If I cannot reveal that it is intriguing, fun, relevant, and
filled with surprises, I am not doing my job." See further:
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Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
has a Doctoraal degree from the University of Utrecht
(Netherlands) and a PhD from Columbia University (New York City). She
teaches art history at Seton Hall University and co-directs the
University’s graduate program in museum studies.
A specialist in nineteenth-century art history, she
has published six books, most recently Nineteenth-Century European
Art (Abrams/Prentice Hall, 2003). She also is the author/co-author
of two exhibition catalogues and some thirty articles and chapters in
anthologies. Since her graduate days, she has been the recipient of
numerous fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim and fellowships
in the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. She is the founder and managing editor of
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, one of the first electronic journals
in art history (www.19thc-artworldwide.org). [return]
Robert Clarida. Bob is
a partner at the New York firm of Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman. His
copyright practice includes both counseling and litigation for clients
in a wide variety of industries, such as publishing, music, fine arts,
photography, jewelry design, film, software and new media. On behalf of
clients such as Harvard University and the New York Public Library he
has been actively involved with digital copyright issues in the library
context, and has advised the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with respect to
the digitization of artworks for the ArtSTOR project. Bob has spoken and
written frequently on copyright issues, and is co-author, with David
Goldberg, of the annual review of copyright decisions published each
year by the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA.
Before joining Cowan, Liebowitz, Mr. Clarida taught music history and
music theory at Dartmouth College, and wrote music for several dance
companies in New York. He earned his J.D. in 1993 from Columbia
University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, after earning a
Ph.D. in music composition from SUNY Stony Brook in 1987, and a
Fulbright fellowship to the Musicology Institute of Göteborg University,
Sweden. He has also earned his Master of Music degree in composition
from the University of Redlands, and a bachelor of music degree in
composition from the University of Illinois. He is admitted to the New
York bar, and to the federal bars of the Southern and Eastern Districts
of New York and the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. [return]
Jeffrey P. Cunard practices law in the
areas of intellectual property, information technology and
telecommunications. His most recent engagements include advice on a wide
range of digital media, copy protection, electronic commerce, including
electronic publishing, and other matters relating to the use of the
Internet. Mr. Cunard represents companies interested in the availability
of music and motion pictures in new digital media, including on-line,
and in the development and use of various encryption and watermarking
technologies. He also represents providers of on-line services and
companies on computer software-related matters, including representation
of both vendors and customers in structuring, drafting and disputes
involving information technology and other computer software development
and licensing arrangements, including outsourcing transactions. In
addition, he advises both domestic and foreign telecommunications
companies and telecommunications users on regulatory and corporate
matters and service arrangements.
Mr. Cunard is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Debevoise &
Plimpton, which has its principal office in New York, European offices
in Paris, London, Frankfurt and Moscow and offices in Hong Kong and
Shanghai. He graduated summa cum laude in English and Political
Science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1977 and
received a J.D. in 1980 from the Yale Law School, where he was an Editor
of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation from law school, he
clerked for U.S. District Judge Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., in Los Angeles,
California. He speaks widely on and is the author of and a contributor
to various articles on intellectual property and communications law. He
also is a member of the editorial boards of E-Commerce Law & Strategy,
where he writes on legal issues relating to computer software and
digital technologies, and Cable TV and New Media Law and Finance,
for which he authors the monthly "FCC Watch" column.
Mr. Cunard and his partner, Bruce P. Keller, are co-authors of a
comprehensive practitioner's guide on U.S. copyright law, published by
Practicing Law Institute (2001-02). He also co-authors three chapters,
on "Copyright," "Obscenity and Indecency" and "Trademark and Unfair
Competition Issues," in Internet and Online Law (K. Stuckey, ed.)
(1996-2002), published by Law Journal Seminars-Press. He also authored
"Property of the Mind: Software and the Law," for The Future of
Software (1995), published by MIT Press, and is a co-author of two
books on international communications law, From Telecommunications to
Electronic Services (1986) and The Telecom Mosaic (1988),
both published by Butterworths.
Mr. Cunard is Counsel to the College Art Association and a member of
its Board of Directors.
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Christine Lesczczynski Sundt is a visual
resources curator who has always considered herself first an art
historian and next a librarian. She received her B.A. from the
University of Illinois at Chicago (1969), majoring in art history with a
studio minor in photography. She completed her M.A. at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1972 with specialization in Late Gothic/Early
Renaissance painting in Florence and Siena followed by coursework toward
a Ph.D. In 1973 she began her career in visual resources at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison where she nurtured her interests in
photographic conservation and visual resources management. Prior to
moving to Oregon in 1983, she was one of the founders as well as the
first president of the Visual Resources Association (VRA). She was
recruited as the conservation and technology expert for the Visual
Resources Fundamentals summer workshops between 1983 and 1997, offered
at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Texas at
Austin. Also during this period, she became Technology Editor of
Visual Resources, a quarterly journal published by G+B Arts and most
recently by Taylor & Francis/Routledge. As a faculty member and visual
resources curator in the library at the University of Oregon since 1985,
she was promoted to full professor in 1999. She has served as a
consultant regarding imaging management and technology for academic
institutions as well as corporations. She is active in a number of
organizations including the American Association of Museums, Art
Libraries Society of North America, Museum Computer Network, the Society
of North American Goldsmiths, and the Visual Resources Association. She
is currently serving on the Board of Directors of NINCH (National
Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage) and the Jacobs Gallery
(Eugene, OR) Steering Committee. In addition to her full-time career in
visual resources, she is also a jewelry artist represented by the Alder
Gallery in Oregon. Her work can be viewed online at
http://www.mindspring.com/~csundt/ Among her recent publications are
“The Image User and the Search for Images,” in Introduction to Art
Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, Strategies (The J. Paul
Getty Trust, 2002), “Visual Resources,” in Information Sources in
Art, Art History and Design (Munich, Bowker-Saur, 2001), and “The
Quest for Access to Images: History and Development,” in Advances in
Librarianship (1998). Recent articles have appeared in the
Journal of the American Society for Information Science (“Testing
the Limits: The CONFU Digital Image and Multimedia Guidelines and the
Consequences for Libraries and Educators,” 1999) and in the NINCH
Copyright Town Meeting report for the 2000 series (“Been There, Done
That! The State of the Question Regarding Copyright, Fair Use and
Intellectual Property in the Arts”). She received the VRA’s
Distinguished Service Award in 1988 and the Nancy Delaurier Writing
Award for her website, Copyright & Art Issues (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/
) in 2002. A member of CAA since 1970, she has been a program organizer
and presenter (CAA-NINCH Copyright Town Meetings and The Magic
Classroom, 1997 and 2000), co-chair of the Committee on Intellectual
Property (1995-1998) and a representative for CAA at the Conference on
Fair Use [CONFU] (1995-1996). [return]
Peter Trippi is the
founding executive editor of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide,
one of the first electronic journals in art history (www.19thc-artworldwide.org).
His monograph on the Victorian painter J.W. Waterhouse RA (1849-1917)
was published by Phaidon in September 2002. Trippi is currently
Assistant Vice Director for Development: Exhibitions and Collections at
the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He studied at New York University and at the
Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Before moving to Brooklyn, Trippi
worked at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where he wrote catalogue essays
for the international touring exhibition “A Grand Design: The Art of the
Victoria and Albert Museum.” He has prepared the first entry on J.W.
Waterhouse for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and is
currently Treasurer of the Association of Historians of
Nineteenth-Century Art. [return]
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a
cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and
Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens
Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in
the Library: How Peer-to-Peer Networks are Transforming Politics, Culture,
and Information (Basic Books, 2003). Vaidhyanathan has written for
many periodicals, including The Dallas Morning News, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine,
MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, and The Nation. He is a frequent contributor
on media and cultural issues, and his research has been profiled by
programs on National Public Radio, CNN, the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, International Herald-Tribune Television, Pacifica Radio,
Voice of America, and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. After five years
as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American
Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Vaidhyanathan has taught
at the University of Texas, Wesleyan University, and the University of
Wisconsin at Madison. He is currently an assistant professor of Culture
and Communication at New York University.
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