Robert A. Baron on Copyright and Academic Intellectual Property

I. Papers and Projects
on Copyright and Intellectual Property
including
Projects and Activities of the
Committee on Intellectual Property
of the College Art Association
by

05/2008	Robert A. Baron. "Metaphor and Polemic in the Wars over the Public Domain," Art and Museum Law (A journal of the law and public policy of the visual arts and museums, ed. Kathleen Butler, Professor of Law.) Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007, pp. 1-29. (A publication of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Michigan Museums Association.) For additional information, see HERE. (A newly edited version of "Reconstructing the Public Domain," below.
04/2007	Robert A. Baron. Musings on Infringement in the Modern World Prepared for a discussion that took place at the United States State Department offices in Manhattan, 4/17/2007, on the occasion of a State Department invitation to four administrators of the copyright compliance unit of Beijing, China, to visit the United States.
04/2004	Robert A. Baron. Fair Use Failure -- Crisis in the Classroom. DRAFT of a WORK in PROGRESS. Derived from preparation for conference: "Battling for Ownership of the Arts: Who Controls Music, Film, Publishing, and Visual Communication." Boca Raton, FL, Florida Atlantic University.
02/2003	Robert A. Baron. Fair Use Under Challenge. A paper prepared for the CAA/NINCH Copyright Town Meeting. NYC. February, 2003.
02/2003 CAA	Intellectual Property Programs at the College Art Association 2003 Conference, New York City, February 2003 Including a NINCH Copyright Town Meeting Digital Publishing: A Practical Guide to the Problem of Intellectual Property Rights in the Electronic Environment, for Artists, Museums, Authors, Publishers, Readers and Users. Problems of Publishing for Tenure in the Arts and Art History A Workshop on acquiring rights to publish images: Clearing Rights and Permissions: How To, Why To, When To
11/2002	Copyright or Copywrong? -- an IFAR Program The Supreme Court, Copyright Term Extension, and The Arts Wednesday, November 6, 2002. Contributing speakers: Franklin Feldman, Stephen E. Weil, Alice Haemmerli, Robert Baron, I. Fred Koenigsberg Remarks on the Challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (Eldred v. Ashcroft) from the Perspective of the Art Historian. Based on a talk by Robert A. Baron, Chair of College Art Association, Committee on Intellectual Property. Presented at an evening conference sponsored by the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR)
11/2002	Reconstructing the Public Domain, (Metaphor as Polemic in the Intellectual Property Wars.) by Robert A. Baron Based on comments presented at the VRA-ARLIS NINCH Copyright Town Meeting The Changing Research and Collections Environment: The Information Commons Today St. Louis, MO / March 23, 2002 (See shortened and revised version, above.)
02/2002 CAA	College Art Association, Amicus Brief re Eldred v. Ashcroft before the Supreme Court Against the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act: Amicus Briefs and Testimonials: Main Page Amicus Brief 5/30/02 Memorandum prepared by Jeffrey P. Cunard, CAA Counsel Letter Soliciting Help in preparing Amicus Brief Other resources and pages of interest: Guide to when works enter the Public Domain Mickey Mouse in Perpetuity
02/2002 CAA	College Art Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, February 21, 2002 Beyond Copyright: Do Artists Have Rights? A panel discussion on the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA)
12/2001	Summary of the Status of Fair Use Rights. (not published)
01/2001 CAA	NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, Chicago, March 3, 2001 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the College Art Association Copyright as Seen from the Perspective of Rights-Holders and Publishers Speaker and Program Guide
05/2000 CAA	NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, Baltimore, May 18, 2000 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums Copyright Confusion? Community Guides The College Art Association's Q&A Guide to Copyright for Academics
04/2000	NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, San Francisco, April 5, 2000 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Visual Resources Association Making the Public Domain Public Part I: On defining the Public Domain Part II: On using the Public Domain
02/2000 CAA	NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, New York, February 26, 2000 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the College Art Association Intellectual Property Issues in the Academic Workplace: The "Tug of War" between Faculty, University and Publisher for Rights to the Products of Contemporary Education. Robert Baron's Introduction Link to NINCH Report and Papers
02/1999 CAA	"Promotion of Distance Education Through Digital Technologies" Docket No. 98-12A: Library of Congress Copyright Office Comments of the College Art Association: 1999 By Robert A. Baron, CAA Committee on Intellectual Property Kathleen R. Cohen, CAA Committee on Education; and Jeffrey P. Cunard, CAA Counsel College Art Association: Committee on Intellectual Property Response to the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress request for comments on Distance Education (Also available on CAA site.) (2/5/99)
02/1998 CAA	NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, Toronto, Canada, February 1998 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the College Art Association On the Fair Use of Digital Images: Program and Papers
09/1997	NINCH Copyright Town Meeting in Portland Oregon, September 27, 1997 Copyright Law in the Digital World: Fair Use, Education and Libraries after CONFU. Papers by Robert Baron: The Challenge to Education Trying Out the Guidelines (Outline) Trying Out the Guidelines (Text)
02/1996	Copyright and Fair Use: The Great Image Debate, Table of Contents and link to order form. Gordon and Breach, February 1996, also published as a special issue of Visual Resources (Vol. XII, Nos. 3 and 4.) (Review by L.Kinney in CAA News.) Editor's Introduction, Summary and Analysis (last edited: 3/17/2002)
03/1996	Digital Fever: A Scholar's Copyright Dilemma, Text based on a pre-publication version of an article appearing in Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 15, No. 1 (March 1996), pp. 49-64.

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