Rina Elster Pantalony, Board Chair and President of OCEAN, participated in the launch of the WIPO Toolkit on Preservation on September 2-3, 2024 in Bogota, Colombia, together with co-authors Kenneth D. Crews and David Sutton. The launch, organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO, in collaboration with the Subgerencia Cultural del Banco de la República de Colombia and the Dirección Nacional de Derecho de Autor,…

In September 2024, Melissa Levine, Vice-President of OCEAN, was asked by Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden to serve a second term as a member of the Copyright Public Modernization Committee, designed to to provide a public forum for sharing information regarding the technology-related aspects of the US Copyright Office’s modernization initiative. 

On May 21, 2024, OCEAN Board Member Margaret McKee was named the recipient of the 2024 Texas Digital Library Outreach Award  Margaret received the award on the basis of her significant contributions to OCEAN’s broad outreach efforts to museums, archives and other cultural heritage organizations.

Last October, OCEAN cohosted a webinar with CSAAM (Collections Stewardship ProfessionalNetwork of the American Alliance of Museums). We are pleased to share a recording of the session (close captioned):

Managing Copyright Issues From Acquisition to Exhibition (Recording, October 28, 2022)

AAM recording of Managing Copyright Issues (version for American Alliance of Museums members)

Many thanks to Miami University of Ohio Libraries for making the recording…

The 2022 Miami University Libraries Copyright Conference will be held online the week of September 12. It features a series of five 90-minute webinars (one each day) exploring this year’s theme of Copyright Collaborations! Celebrating our victories: past, present, and future. You can learn more about the event by visiting this webpage. Registration for the conference costs $25 and includes access to the live online…

Coming up on October 28: Rights and Reproductions webinar organized by CSAAM (Collections Stewardship committee, American Alliance of Museums) and OCEAN (the Open Copyright Education Advisory Network). The format will be a presentation about a rights related topic by expert(s) in the field with a lot of time left for questions and discussion afterwards. Everyone is welcome to participate; we are looking to create a…

Public Knowledge has recognized OCEAN advisory board member Kyle Courtney with the IP3 award for intellectual property! The IP3 Award expresses appreciation for work in the three "I's:" intellectual property, information policy and internet protocol issues. Kyle's energy, dedication, intellect, and unique approaches to learning about copyright empowers people working in libraries, archives, and cultural institutions nationwide. Kyle's expertise and creative energy is an indispensable…

EDUCAUSE Webinar

Join Rina and Melissa at EDUCAUSE to learn about OCEAN - where we came from, where we hope to go, and how you can participate. Our vision is to inform and empower our community, recognizing that copyright and related issues are foundational to our networked, digital world, emphasizing equitable access to reliable, relevant, understandable information. There is a convergence of copyright issues across…

We got great feedback from people who attended our CNI Project Briefing in December 2021. The biggest takeaway: the need to understand how to effectively communicate with offices of general counsel so that your attorneys can better help you. To that end, we've established a new working group. This is a small group of attorneys who serve as counsel for libraries, archives and museums. If…

CNI Project Briefing

Melissa Levine, Director, Copyright Office, University of Michigan

Rina Elster Pantalony, Director, Copyright Advisory Services, Columbia University

In this session we discuss our successful pilot collaboration with LYRASIS. with hundreds of registrants for new, online copyright education classes including a basic copyright course made free of charge and distributed publicly. We aspire to inform and empower our community, recognizing that copyright and…

Catch the next wave of OCEAN Discussion Sessions! You have copyright questions. We have experts.

The Open Copyright Education Advisory Network (OCEAN) is pleased to announce its Fall 2022 Discussion Session line-up. Discussion Sessions in this series are one-hour Zooms featuring a short presentation followed by lively Q&A and discussion. All sessions are free of charge and are not recorded. Please register for each event…