Committees
Committee on Intellectual Property
Description
The Committee on Intellectual Property (CIP) monitors and interprets copyright legislation for the benefit of CAA’s various constituencies. In so doing, it seeks to offer educational programs and opportunities for discussion and debate in response to copyright legislation that effects educators, scholars, museum professionals, and artists.
Recent Projects
The Committee on Intellectual Property oversaw a major revision of the Intellectual Property and the Arts section of the CAA website in 2011 and 2012. Information on these pages was updated and expanded to provide current and relevant resources for CAA’s members. In 2012, the committee sponsored a session at the CAA Annual Conference on “Give and Take: Copyright's Balancing Act,” preceded by “Copyright, CAA, and the Next Century,” at the 2011 conference. Ongoing projects include the continual monitoring of the status of orphan-works legislation, and providing information about copyright and best practices in fair use in the arts to artists and art historians.
The committee sponsored a two-part conference in 2007, “Who Owns this Image? Art, Access, and the Public Domain after Bridgeman v. Corel,” with the New York City Bar Association, ARTstor, and Creative Commons. The first part was a high-level closed-door conference, attended by thirty-five experts including two influential federal judges, the deputy director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the president of the Artists Rights Society, the relevant department director at the US Copyright Office, leading legal scholars in this area from major universities, and others. The public panel, which drew a standing-room-only audience of eight hundred, was composed of the following: Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan, United States District Judge (author of the Bridgeman opinion); Theodore Feder, President, Artists Rights Society; Christopher Lyon, Executive Editor, Prestel Publishing; William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google; and Maureen Whalen, Associate General Counsel, J. Paul Getty Trust. The moderator was Virginia Rutledge, Vice President and General Counsel, Creative Commons, chair NYCBA Art Law Committee, and former member of CIP.
See also the CIP-sponsored session on the Visual Artists Rights Act at the 2002 Annual Conference and other Papers and Projects on Copyright and Intellectual Property.
Committee Members
Christine Sundt, Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, Chair (2013)
Benjamin Binstock, Bass Museum of Art (2014)
Suzanne Blier, Harvard University, CAA Board Liaison (ex officio)
Rebecca Cleman, Electronic Arts Intermix (2013)
Scott Contreras-Koterbay, East Tennessee State University (2013)
Jeffrey Cunard, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, CAA Board Liaison (ex officio)
Charlotte Frost, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (2014)
Joe Hannan, CAA Staff Liaison (ex officio)
Betty Leigh Hutcheson, CAA Staff Liaison (ex officio)
Karen Kelly, DF Press (2013)
Elaine Koss, Frick Collection (2015)
Judith Metro, National Gallery of Art (2015)
Doralynn Pines, Independent Scholar and Consultant, New York, CAA Board Liaison (ex officio)
Caitlin Shey, Attorney-at-Law and Private Consultant, New York (2013)
Gretchen Wagner, ARTstor (2015)
