CALL FOR PAPERS Battling for Ownership: Who Controls Music, Film, Publishing, and Visual Communications? First Bi-Annual Conference, April 16-18, 2004 Boca Raton Marriott in Boca Raton, FL Host: Dorothy F. Schmidt, College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University Conference Committee: Michael Zager, Jeffrey Galin, Anthony Tamburri, Robert Davis, Heather Coltman, Angel DiCosola, Jean-Louis Baldet, Susan Reilly, Mark Scroggins, Eric Freedman We invite abstracts for 20 minute presentations and complete panel and roundtable proposals on all aspects of intellectual property in music, film, publishing, and visual communications. We especially encourage those that address issues across the commercial arts and/or their impact on the public good. We offer the following questions as areas of particular interest: • What industry-specific intellectual property problems have cross-industry implications and how might solutions to these problems affect the industries and their consumers? • How are music, film, publishing, and visual communications industries addressing the conflicts between corporate rights to protect assets and public rights to fair-use and advancement of the public good? • How do specific cases like the RIAA’s suits against peer-to-peer music traders, Jon Johansen (developer of DVD decoding software), Kinko's (copying course packets for university students) affect copyright holders, legal doctrine, and cultural practices? • How should the industries that deal in the arts change as a result of new digital technologies, user habits and expectations, and the balance that must be maintained between encouraging creativity by giving exclusive property rights in creations and fostering a competitive market place by giving the freest possible public access to works of authorship and the ideas they encompass? For example, how will industries like music continue to change in response to the changing roles of intellectual property online? Will most music be sold online, and if so how will illicit music trading be stopped? • In the first weeks of 2003 the Supreme Court upheld the Sonny Bono Act's twenty year extension of the 1976 Copyright Law, and the recording and technology industries reached a "landmark agreement" to address piracy concerns, meet consumer expectations, and forestall government regulation of digital copyrights. How will such decisions affect the future of copyright and cultural production/exchange? What implications will such national decisions have on global markets and cultures? Invited speakers will include: Rosemary Coombe, Tier One Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies at York University in Toronto; Daphne Ireland, Intellectual Property Manager at Princeton University Press and Chair of the Copyright Committee for the American Association of University Publishers; Zachery Martin, Senior at Spanish River High School in Boca Raton; Bruce Phillips, Senior Acquisitions Editor for Music and Dance Books, Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group; Kenneth Crews, Professor in the Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis and in the IU School of Library and Information Science, Associate Dean of the Faculties for Copyright Management, and Director of the Copyright Management Center at IUPUI; Jenny Toomey, Executive Director Future of Music Coalition; Robert Spoo, Copyrights Editor for the Journal of Modern Literature and the James Joyce Quarterly and a member of the intellectual property group at the law firm of Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Wendy Seltzer, Staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and founder of the Chilling Effects Project; Melanie Masterson, VP of Antipiracy at EMI Latin America; Ann Chaitovitz, National Director of Sound Recordings for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) in Washington; Peter Dekom, Co-Chairman, American Cinematheque and former partner in the LA law firm of Bloom, Dekom, Hergott and Cook; Neil Crilly, Executive Director of the Florida Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences NARAS All abstracts and proposals (250 words) should be submitted in duplicate. Please mail abstracts postmarked by December 1st to Professor Jeffrey R. Galin, Department of English, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431 or sent via email to . Tel: (561) 297-1221 Fax: (561) 297-3807 CONFERENCE INFORMATION Boca Raton Marriott, 5150 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton, FL 33486 (561-392-4600) (Fax 561-395-8258) Rooms $79.00 + tax; single/double and $179 + tax; suite NOTE: You must mention the “Battling For Ownership” conference when making reservations. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: Friday 5:30-6:30 Cocktail Hour (Music by Uwwalo Messengers) 6:30-7:30 Dinner 7:30-9:00 Keynote Speaker Saturday 8:30-10:00 Roundtable For The Entire Conference 10:00-10:15 Break 10:15-11:45 Concurrent Sessions 11:45-12:00 Break 12:00-1:30 Boxed Lunch With Keynote Speaker 1:30-1:45 Break 1:45-3:15 Roundtable For Entire Conference 3:15-3:30 Break 3:30-5:00 Concurrent Sessions 5:00-8:00 Break 7:00-8:00 Reception Before FAU Symphony Performance (On FAU Campus) 8:00 Concert On FAU Campus Sunday 8:30-10:30 Policy And Proposal Action Groups 15-20 Breakout Sessions Addressing Predetermined Topics 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-12:00 Reports From Action Groups To Conference Body ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org