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Navigating Rights and Usage: Best Practices for Accepting Donations
Friday December 6, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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This panel aims to guide archivists on the critical process of negotiating rights before accepting audiovisual donations. Our goal is to empower attendees with the necessary knowledge and tools to establish clear rights agreements and ensure ethical usage of donated materials, thus enhancing their collections' value and accessibility. The panel will emphasize best practices for acquiring news and documentary collections, highlighting the importance of addressing rights at the point of acquisition.
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avatar for Karen Cariani

Karen Cariani

Exectuive Director GBH Archive, WGBH Archives
Karen Cariani, is the David O. Ives Executive Director of the GBH Archives and GBH Project Director for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collaboration with the Library of Congress to preserve and provide a centralized on-line access to content created by public media... Read More →
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Ruta Abolins

Director, Brown Media Archives, University of Georgia/Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Ruta Abolins is Director of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. She has worked in moving image archives for the past 30 years. She currently manages a collection of over 350,000 analog audiovisual items and over 200,000... Read More →
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Greg Cram

Director of Copyright, Permissions and Information Policy, New York Public Library
Greg Cram is the Director of Copyright, Permissions and Information Policy at The New York Public Library. Greg endeavors to make the Library’s collections broadly available to researchers and the public. He is responsible for developing and implementing policies and practices around... Read More →
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Lance Watsky

Filmic Technologies
Lance Watsky is a seasoned Motion Picture Archivist with nearly thirty years of experience in preserving, digitizing, and licensing film collections for museums, libraries, archives, and companies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida and a... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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