Presented in an easily digestible format, this go-to desktop reference guide provides explanations and clarifications on a variety of issues and concerns facing today's museum professional, including:
?Intellectual property issues, including copyright, trademark, service marks, and fair use
?Corporate issues, including non-profit status and tax exempt status
?Governance issues, including trustees and fiduciary duties
A Legal Dictionary for Museum Professionals features three major sections:
?In the first, ten common acronyms and symbols are explained.
?In the second, more than 100 terms such as abandoned property, automatic revocation, charitable trust, conflict of interest, declatory judgment, doctrine of equitable deviation, fiduciary duty, nondistribution constraint, partial gift, quid pro quo contribution, and unrelated business income tax are concisely defined specifically in the context of their relevance to day-to-day museum work.
?In the final section, ten additional topics are broken out into a more in-depth explanation, allowing the subtleties and complications to be examined and explained in a plain-language manner. These include ethics and the law, licensing, trademark, The Business Judgment Rule, and Non-Profit Organizations and Tax Exemption.
Written by a museum director who holds a law degree and has practiced law, this reference book is intended to be kept within arm's reach at a desk and be the first stop for a professional when a question arises.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"For all of those legal terms and ideas that you 'kind of' understand, this dictionary is a welcomed, focused, and valuable resource to give you a clearer comprehension of the myriad legal concepts that increasingly are becoming a part of everyday museum work." -- Mark Schlemmer, Associate Registrar for Collections, New-York Historical Society Museum and Library "A Legal Dictionary for Museum Professionals promises to become a frequently consulted book on museum bookshelves. Its straightforward definitions are accessible to those not familiar with the law and provide entry points for the many legal issues that museum professionals deal with regularly." -- Sally Yerkovich, Director, Institute of Museum Ethics, Seton Hall University
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4422-6342-0 (9781442263420)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Heather Hope Kuruvilla is a museum professional with special interests in the areas of intellectual property and rights management, museum administration, board fiduciary responsibility, and the ethical and thoughtful approach to necessary deaccessioning. She studied museum registration methods at Seton Hall University, where she was awarded a Master of Arts with Distinction. She holds a Certificate in Intellectual Property: Art & Museum Law, which she attained while working towards her Juris Doctor at DePaul University College of Law. Her past research interests have included the intersection of ethics and the law in museum deaccessioning and the impact of the Visual Artists Rights Act on American museums, and her seminar article on deaccessioning was awarded honorable mention in the 2011 Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation student writing competition. She presented a paper on ethics and the law in relation to museums at the 2009 "New Directions in Museum Ethics" conference.
List of Tables
List of Acronyms
List of Symbols
List of Statutes
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I.
Chapter 1: The Dictionary
Part II.
Chapter 2: In Focus: Ethics and the Law
Chapter 3: In Focus: Copyright Basics
Chapter 4: In Focus: Copyright Infringement and the Fair Use Doctrine
Chapter 5: In Focus: Trademark
Chapter 6: In Focus: Intellectual Property Licensing
Chapter 7: In Focus: Nonprofit Corporations and Tax Exemption
Chapter 8: In Focus: The Board of Trustees and Their Fiduciary Duty
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
