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 sponsored a two-part conference, “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 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 comprised 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 member of CIP.
The committee oversaw a major update of the Intellectual Property and the Arts section of the CAA website, adding many new sections and updating others to provide a resource for members. It also made proposals for the next CAA strategic plan and centennial plan. Ongoing projects include the continual monitoring of the status of orphan-works legislation; developing practical guidelines for artists for copyright assertion; and increasing outreach to artist members about orphan works and best practices on fair use in the arts.
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.
2010 Annual Conference
The following committee-sponsored session will take place at the 2010 Annual Conference in Chicago.
Copyright Assertion and Protection for Artists
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Marci Rolnik, Lawyers for the Creative Arts; Anne Swartz, Savannah College of Art and Design
Committee Members
Kenneth Cavalier, art historian and lawyer, British Columbia, chair (2012)
Rebecca Cleman, Electronic Arts Intermix (2013)
Scott Contreras-Koterbay, East Tennessee State University (2013)
Jeffrey Cunard, CAA counsel (ex officio)
Joy Garnett, independent artist, New York (2012)
Joe Hannan, CAA codirector of publications (ex officio)
Beth Holman, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (2011)
Betty Leigh Hutcheson, CAA codirector of publications (ex officio)
Karen Kelly, Dia Art Foundation (2013)
Doralynn Pines, Metropolitan Museum (retired), 2013
Caitlin Shey, lawyer and consultant, New York (2013)
Christine Sundt, University of Oregon (2013)
