Day 2, Group 6

Rina Pantalony, Department of Justice, Canada
Richard Rinehart, Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archives

Richard Rinehart and Rina Pantalony will discuss issues at the intersection of digital art and intellectual property occasioned by the publication of a white paper on these topics that was commissioned by Canadian Heritage Information Network CHIN) and authored by Richard Rinehart...

...This paper is an attempt to create a snapshot of the cultural heritage community’s response to intellectual property law and practice regarding (digital) art. This paper is not written from a legal perspective, but from a cultural heritage community perspective to provide an introduction to and current overview of the intersection of intellectual property and digital art. This perspective is informed by legal professionals and publications and by direct experience with intellectual property.

Rina Elster Pantalony obtained her undergraduate degree from Dalhousie University at Halifax, Canada and her Law Degree from Dalhousie Law School. She is admitted as a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and practiced commercial law in Toronto. After a year of study in Paris, Ms. Elster Pantalony joined the Canadian government as a policy analyst in copyright law and from 1997 to 2000, Ms. Pantalony was Senior Policy Advisor on intellectual property matters to the Canadian Heritage Information Network and the Virtual Museum of Canada. In 2000, she was appointed intellectual property counsel to a joint Internet venture between the Tate and The Museum of Modern Art. In 2002, Ms. Pantalony joined the Canadian Justice Department to represent the Virtual Museum of Canada and then the Library and Archives of Canada as their Legal Counsel, carrying out her responsibilities from New York. She is also adjunct faculty at the Tisch School for the Arts, New York University where she teaches in the Department of Cinema Studies. Her most recent publication, “The WIPO Guide on Managing Intellectual Property for Museums”, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2007, is available on-line in English and in print in Spanish, English and French at www.wipo.int/copyright/en/museums_ip/.

Richard Rinehart is Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. He also teaches digital art at UC Berkeley, and has taught at San Francisco Art Institute, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University. Richard is a working digital media artist who has exhibited at Exit Art, New York and New Langton Arts in San Francisco. He serves as the Associate Director for Public Programs of the UC Berkeley Center for New Media.

Richard curates digital art exhibitions and programs for the Berkeley Art Museum, curated digital art for New Langton Arts for six years, and has also guest-curated or juried for ISEA2006/ZeroOne, Creative Capital Foundation, Djerassi Foundation, Marin Arts Council, and San Jose City/Airport Project. Richard manages research projects in the area of digital culture, including the NEA-funded project, ‘Archiving the Avant Garde’, a national consortium of museums and artists distilling the essence of digital art in order to document and preserve it.