Please excuse any duplication of this message ============= Greetings all, We have had such great interest, by request, we have extended the registration until the end of the week, 8/27.
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING: an online seminar. http://cipcommunity.org/creativecommonsseminar. Join Michael Carroll on August 31, 2010, from 2:00 until 5:00 PM ET, as he discusses how Creative Commons licensing provides intellectual property flexibility to institutions and helps individuals easily manage their creative rights. Mr. Carroll, J.D., Washington College of Law, American University, is a founding member of Creative Commons and currently serves on its Board of Directors as an advisor to the Science Commons and ccLearn projects. Renew your Center for Intellectual Property membership or become a new member -- either yourself ($60) or your institution ($500) -- by August 23...and you may attend this free seminar and continue to take advantage of additional member benefits for the next year. NEW! INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP PRE-SALE. Rather than signing up as an individual member, you may want to encourage your institution to become a member of the CIP Community. For $500 a year, your entire institution may benefit from membership that includes: discounts on educational programming and consultation services; access to on-going free community conversations about copyright; legislative alerts; and access to the community file library. These benefits extend to all the institution employees. Visit our institutional membership page at http://www.cipcommunity.org/institutionalmembership for more details. If your institution signs up during this pre-sale, participation in the seminar on Creative Commons licensing is FREE for anyone employed at your institution. Contact us to find out how. Complete the membership the form at http://www.cipcommunity.org/membershipform for your community access today! -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 Phone: 240-684-5803 or 1-800-283-6832, ext. 5803 Fax: 240-684-2961 ofranc...@umuc.edu http://cipcommunity.org/ VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.