siggraph@pioneer.arpa (Siggraph) (02/12/88)
Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics Legal Issues of Computer Graphics Susan Hubbell Nycum Ms. Nycum is a partner of the international law firm of Baker and McKenzie resident in the Palo Alto Office. She specializes in the legal aspects of high technology including computers and communications. Her focus is on proprietary-rights, licensing technology transfer, governmental regulation, privacy, computer crime, licensing, litigation and general advice to high technology companies and organizations using high technology products and services. Ms. Nycum is past-chairman of the American Bar Association's section of Science and Technology, and is currently President of the Computer Law Association. She is a member of the Board of Visitors at Stanford Law School and the board of advisors on high technology computers and law to seven major United States law schools. Ms. Nycum has represented the United States at numerous U.N. and OECD meetings. She was an invited expert delegate at the W.I.P.O. meeting on Protection of Software in Canberra, Australia, 1984 and an invited speaker at TELECOM'83 in Geneva. She has acted as a consultant on high technology matters to the governments of Brazil, Canada, Finland, Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, and Singapore. Ms. Nycum will speak on the legal issues involving computer graphics. The focus will be on proprietary protection including the recent developments in copyright for screen displays and patents for user interfaces. Date: February 23, Tuesday (4th Tuesday of the Month) Time: 8 PM Location: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), 3333 Coyote Hill Road Next meeting March 8 (to avoid NCGA conflict (second Tues.)): Aesthetic Issues: A Panel, SF Arts Institute.