“Comedies of Fair Use” Conference
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From: NY Institute for the Humanities
> Date: April 26, 2006 6:51:22 PM EDT
> Subject: “Comedies of Fair Use” Conference
>
> The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, in association
> with the NYU
> Humanities Council, present a weekend long symposium:
>
> COMEDIES OF FAIR U$E:
> A Search for Comity in the Intellectual Property Wars
>
> FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
>
> Friday April 28, 7:30pm-9:30pm
> Saturday, April 29, 9:30am-6:30pm
> & Sunday, April 30, 9:30am-1:00pm
>
> Hemmerdinger Hall
> 100 Washington Square East
>
> Some of the most contentious issues bedeviling cultural life today are
> increasingly coming to revolve around the question of what proper
> deference
> ought to be paid to the notion of intellectual property. Just what is
> copyright, what is its point, who is it designed to protect
> (individual creators
> and their legatees, be they individual or corporate, and
> necessarily to the same
> extent?) and what is it designed to foster (the most thrivingly
> fertile
> intellectual community and intercourse possible?)? What sorts of
> product ought
> to be copyrightable and for how long? And what exceptions ought to
> be made to
> this tendency? What is “fair use” and how ought it to be extended
> (and perhaps
> expanded)? How do all these issues play out across different media
> textual
> (books and magazines), visual (photos, paintings, films), and aural
> (musical)?
>
> The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU will be bringing
> together
> practioners and artists (many from among the ranks of its own
> distinguished
> fellowship), along with lawyers, judges, historians, theorists and
> philosophers,
> in order to explore various aspects of these questions. For more
> information
> and the full schedule, go to www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/nyih
>
>
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>
Red Burns
Chair
Interactive Telecommunications – ITP
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
Tokyo Broadcasting System Chair
red.burns@nyu.edu