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
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Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite
http://www.ScreenSite.org
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