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Princeton Media Communications Association APRIL 2006 MEETINGMedia Use Rights: Both Sides Now? Barbara Zimmerman, BZ/Rights & Permissions Date:
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Additional Information When you write a song or make a video, you have the right to control how it is used. This isn’t that big an issue for many of us who create media for corporations, because they own the “work for hire.” But many times we want to incorporate work—typically music, photos or footage—created by someone else. This can get dicey, particularly when the piece of music is a hit song or the footage is from a well-known movie. And it can also get dicey if you want to sell your own media creations online. How do you protect your rights and prevent hackers and pirates? This meeting will examine the licensing and the protection of media and the rights attached to its usage. Our distinguished speakers are Barbara Zimmerman, founder and president of BZ/Rights & Permissions, Inc. (www.bzrights.com) in New York City, and Jeffrey Lubin an EmmyTM-award winning scientist at the Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton. Jeffrey is the chief inventor of the iTraceTM watermark: the world's only cinema and video watermark that is invisible under all viewing conditions, yet robust enough to survive camcorder capture, low bit-rate recoding, and other distortions and attacks. Barbara Zimmerman learned her business from the ground up in production, theatre, book and music publishing, recordings, radio shows, and commercials. She founded her independent rights clearance service in the 1980’s. Now a frequent speaker, writer and expert witness in the rights/licensing/copyright area, Barbara will discuss and provide hand-outs on how to clear music, recordings, film & video footage, photographs, art work and celebrities — anything that's copyrighted or otherwise legally protected. Whether it’s David Bowie, Popeye, Dennis Franz, Frank Sinatra, Crayola Crayons, Casablanca, Donald Trump, Singin in the Rain, a Frost poem or a work of art, Barbara and her staff can clear it! Jeff will discuss his digital watermarking in the context of the transformations now sweeping the mass media due to increasing use of the internet as a new distribution channel for all forms of media. In addition to inventing iTraceTM, Jeff was also the lead scientist for Sarnoff’s Emmy winning JNDmetrixTM human vision modeling technologies. The award was "for pioneering development of equipment to provide objective measurement of perceptible picture quality in digital television systems." Jeff is the inventor of approximately 15 U.S. patents, with others pending. He has served as a reviewer for numerous scholarly vision research journals, has published two widely cited book chapters on vision modeling, and is author or co-author of about a dozen other technical publications. Join Us! If this meeting sounds intriguing, now would be a good time to join PMCA. Our managerial board is always looking for people who are excited about the video or electronic media profession and want to help make the organization’s meetings successful and rewarding. Those interested in joining or sponsoring our activities should contact Andy Kienzle, PMCA President, at NXLevel, 609-466-2828, x20, akienzle@nxlevel.com. And visit our website: www.movingimage.org Contact: Andy Kienzle, PMCA
President, Princeton MCA-I Directions to Princeton Theological Seminary The Princeton Campus of Princeton Theological Seminary is between Templeton Hall is on the right a short distance down College Road from Alexander Road (first right from Alexander going south from Mercer). We meet in the TV Studio (lower level) of Templeton Hall (Building 21 on the map). Plenty of parking on the new parking deck adjacent to the building (go up the ramp). Enter the side door of Templeton Hall, near the bottom of the ramp. Maps: http://www.ptsem.edu/About/pdfs/revisedmap01.pdf Directions: http://www.ptsem.edu/About/Campus_Maps.php Driving directions for Princeton Theological Seminary Please note: PMCA is no longer sending a snail mail newsletter. Please make sure we have your correct e-mail address and pass this meeting notice along to others! Sponsors Please consider using these fine media production professionals. Click on the ad for more information.
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