[Ohiodig] FW: Free Webinar on Copyright from Radio Preservation Task Force

[Carleton, Janet (she/her)]

May be of interest. (I know I am as we have a digitized collection of a radio series.)



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Janet Carleton| Digital Initiatives Coordinator | Digital Initiatives | Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives | OHIO University Libraries | Alden 333 | Athens, Ohio | 740.597.2527 | carleton at ohio.edu | https://media.library.ohio.edu | she/her/hers



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Subject: [External] Friday: Radio Preservation Task Force Copyright Town Hall



Do you work with radio collections? Does copyright affect your decisions related to preservation and project planning? The Preservation Division<https://radiopreservation.org/preservation/> of the Radio Preservation Task Force<https://radiopreservation.org/> is pleased to announce a virtual town hall on radio preservation and copyright, on Friday, March 15, at 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Eastern (9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Pacific). A Q&A session will follow brief discussions by four speakers.



Registration is required; please follow the link below to register: https://unt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOygrjwjE9H8Lg6DyILrcnxNcDL8bf2O#/registration



About: The Radio Preservation Task Force was created by the Library of Congress's National Recording Preservation Board in 2014 to facilitate preservation of, research on, and educational uses of radio recordings held by archiving institutions and private collectors in the United States. Its members include hundreds of scholars, educators, collectors, librarians, and archivists at universities, libraries, museums, archives, and other heritage organizations throughout the country. https://radiopreservation.org/about/



Speakers and short bios follow below:



Charles Cronin is an adjunct professor at Keck Graduate Institute, and Claremont Graduate University, of Claremont Colleges. He is a Visiting Scholar at George Washington University Law School where he heads the online Music Copyright Infringement Resource, now used by copyright instructors, practitioners, judges, academics, and students throughout the U.S. He has published many articles on musicological topics, on music technologies and copyright, and about works on the fringes of copyright protection. He has taught copyright as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego Law School and recently spent a year as a visiting fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He has also worked as a consultant to the International Fragrance Association in Brussels. B.M., Oberlin; J.D., American University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford; M.I.M.S. (Masters, Information Systems), Berkeley.



Kevin Smith is the Director of Libraries at Colby College in Maine.  He is a lawyer and a librarian, and has spent years teaching librarians and faculty about copyright.  For a decade he served as Director of the Office for Copyright and Scholarly Communications at Duke University. In 2016 he became the Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas, where he also taught Copyright Law in the KU School of Law.  He moved to Maine, and Colby, in 2022, where he has continued to teach an undergraduate course about copyright and the music industry.  Smith is the author of numerous articles and two books about how copyright law impacts the practice of librarians and university faculty, as well as a two MOOCs addressing those topics.



Brandon Butler is the Director of Information Policy at the University of Virginia Library, where he provides guidance and education to the Library and its user community on intellectual property and related issues. He's also a partner in the law firm Jaszi Butler PLLC. Butler is the author or co-author of a range of articles, book chapters, guides, and presentations about copyright, with a focus on the fair use doctrine, libraries, and higher education. Butler has taught copyright and supervised student attorneys in the IP Law Clinic at American University, and advocated for research libraries around the country at the Association of Research Libraries. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2008.



Eric J. Schwartz is a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP.  He has over 35 years of experience as a copyright attorney providing counseling on U.S. and foreign copyright laws - including rights, licensing, exceptions, ownership and enforcement issues - for film, recorded music, music publishing, book publishing, and entertainment and business software. He also provides production counsel and transactional advice for the financing, production and distribution of feature and documentary films. He was chief production counsel and received a producer credit for the Grammy and Emmy-nominated eight-part documentary series "Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music" which aired on PBS in 2016, and was Executive Produced by Sir George Martin. Eric is an expert on film and recorded sound archival legal and preservation issues. He is Founding Director and Vice Chair of the National Film Preservation Foundation (since 1996), Pro Bono Counsel for the Library of Congress' National Film Preservation Board (since 1988), and a Board Member on the Library of Congress' National Recording Preservation Board (since 2003), and in January 2024 was appointed as a Board Member of the National Recording Preservation Foundation. Prior to his work in private practice, Eric served as Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office (1994), and Senior Legal and Policy Advisor to the Register of Copyrights (1988-1994).
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