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September 14, 2007
Risks, Rights and Responsibilities: Current Copyright Issues for Academics
Monday, October 1st, 4:00-5:30 pm. Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room.
The University Library is pleased to bring together two local intellectual
property experts to share their insights about the copyright issues facing
today’s academics. Jack Bernard, assistant general counsel with the U-M’s
Office of the General Counsel, and an adjunct professor in the School of
Law, the School of Information, and the School of Public Policy, will
discuss strategies for being a responsible copyright holder in a time of
increasing limitations on rights and access. Jessica Litman, Professor of
Law at the University of Michigan and author of the book Digital Copyright,
will speak about the copyright related opportunities and pitfalls afforded
to academics by the Internet.
With an introduction by Paul Courant, University Librarian and Harold T.
Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School
of Public Policy.
Light refreshments provided. For more information call (734) 763-7832 or
visit http://copyright.umich.edu/events.html. Please join us!
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September 13, 2007
Visual Culture Workshop
The Visual Culture Workshop presents
a lecture/discussion by Professor Anthony Lee
In the Opium Den

I. W. Taber, White Women in Opium Den, 1892
Wednesday, October 3, from 1-3 pm
3222 Angell Hall
Anthony Lee is Associate Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College and a leading scholar of American Studies, visual culture studies, and the history of art. His publications include Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, Radical Politics, and San Francisco’s Public Murals (California, 1999), Diane Arbus: Family Albums (Yale, 2003), and the award-winning Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco (California, 2001). He is also the editor of a groundbreaking University of California Press series on photography in the US. His lecture will be drawn from his ongoing work on the social history of Asian America and the photographic history of its representation.
Please join us for refreshments and a lively discussion!
For further information, contact Sara Blair, sbblair@umich.edu
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A&D Field Librarian Contact Information
Annette Haines
Art & Design Field Librarian
University of Michigan
2032 Art & Architecture Building
2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069
Tel 734 763-4438
Fax 734 936-0469
Instant Message: ahaines@umich.edu
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