Description
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, this year's Legal Issues in Museum Administration conference will both reflect on how museum lawyering has evolved and look to its future. Featured sessions include instruction on this year’s most important legal issues, including:
• Providing Precious Pixels: Managing Museum Digital Collections
Digital technologies are not only transforming the way museums share works with the public, they are also expanding the types of works that museums acquire. From expanding access to cutting edge accessions, digital collections create new opportunities as well as new challenges. This panel will cover both legal and practical issues relating to dissemination, use, storage, and collection of digital works.
• Litigation Update for Museum Professionals
Discussion and analysis of recent litigation of interest to the museum community, including intellectual property, artists' rights, donor issues, authenticity, ownership/restitution/repatriation, First Amendment and tax matters.