The Legal Guide For Museum Professionals

Museums are multi-faceted institutions that reach across all disciplines and encounter a complex range of legal questions. Experts in museum and art law will join forces in this essay-format volume. These unique, non-profit cultural organizations face a myriad of legal concerns as they launch into the twenty-first century and will continue to require specific guidance. From intellectual property law to navigating the hazards of social media, de-accessioning concerns to governance law, copyright, intellectual property law, and rights and reproduction questions to issues of public trust, The Legal Guide for Museum Professionals provides answers and action steps for mid to small-sized museums of all disciplines. This book will assist museums with limited resources as well as those with healthy endowments in determining when to seek professional legal counsel and when it may be more efficient to educate themselves and proceed on their own. A panel of experts who have presented at numerous regional and national conferences for museum professionals are especially practiced at providing insight into current legal concerns. Contributors include Gil Whittemore Esq. of Rath, Young and Pignatelli, P.C. and former Chair of the American Bar Association s Museum Law Committee; Katherine E. Lewis Esq. Chair of the American Bar Association s Museum Law Committee and practicing New York attorney; Mark S. Gold Esq. practicing attorney in Williamstown, MA with the firm of Parese, Sabin, Smith

• • Author: Julia Hollett Courtney
• • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• • Publication Date: Mar 19, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 316 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 144223041X
• • ISBN-13: 9781442230415