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UNIVERSITY NEWS - MARCH 2004
MEDIA CONTACT: Stacia Smith
FAU Conference Addresses Intellectual Property Rights
BOCA RATON, FL (March 18, 2004)
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Who controls music, film, publishing
and visual communication? Should downloading music from file
sharing services such as Kazaa be allowed? What are the
implications of the Napster ruling? These are some of the
many questions that will be addressed at the "Battling for
the Ownership of the Arts" conference Friday, April 16
through Sunday, April 18 at the Boca Raton Marriott at Boca
Center, 5150 Town Center Circle in Boca Raton, Florida. The
conference, hosted by Florida Atlantic University's Dorothy
F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, will include
presentations and round table discussions with the goal of
stimulating an on-going dialogue on intellectual property
issues.
"We need to find workable solutions
for upholding exclusive property rights in intellectual
creations," said Jeffrey Galin, professor of English in
FAU's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. "We
also need to work to foster a competitive marketplace by
giving the freest possible public access to works of
authorship and ideas."
The conference will bring together
industry representatives from music, film, publishing and
visual communications with specialists in intellectual
property law and online security. With this foundation,
conference organizers hope to establish a network of
professionals willing to participate in a policy think tank
and ultimately initiate a University Center for
Intellectual Property in the Arts.
Keynote speakers for the conference
include Peter Dekom, co-chair of American Cinematheque; Ann
Chaitovitz, director of sound recordings for the American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) in
Washington; and Steven M. Marks, president of business and
legal affairs of the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA). Other speakers include Wendy Seltzer, staff
attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Ted Cohen
of EMI Music; Neil Crilly of the Florida Chapter of the
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS);
Bruce Phillips, senior acquisitions
editor for music and dance at Scarecrow Press; and Daphne
Ireland, IPM manager at Princeton University Press.
Conference organizers are Michael
Zager, Grammy-nominated composer, arranger and producer and
FAU Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Performing
Arts and Jeffrey Galin, assistant professor of English and
director, FAU University Center for Excellence in Writing.
The registration cost for the
conference is $250. FAU faculty and staff can register for
$85. There will be some sessions that are free and open to
the public. For more information on the program and
speakers, please visit www.fau.edu/ipconference or call
561-297-3185.
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