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MEMBERS:
- Patrick Boylan (UK)
- Trevor Carmichael (Barbados)
- Marilyn Phelan (USA)
- Laurence Massy (Belgium)
- Luisa de Peña Díaz (Dominican Rep.)
- Virgil Nitulescu (Romania)
- Jean-François Canat (Expert - France)
Executive Council representative :
- Michel Van Praët (France)
The Legal Affairs Committee, with a fixed
life and renewable mandate triennially, will operate in
parallel to the long-standing ICOM
Ethics Committee (with similar terms of appointment),
and also parallel to the new Finance
and Resources Committee. |
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Composition
of the committee (9 members)
The committee will include, ex officio, the President
and Secretary-General of ICOM. It should include two other
members of the Executive Council, and be chaired (as with
the Ethics Committee) by an experienced ICOM person drawn
from outside the membership of the Council itself - so that
the advice rendered through this committee will be guided
by depth of professional experience and expert knowledge
intellectually and professionally. However such advice should
also be directed to augmenting Council's grasp of specific
issues of evolving importance, and assist Council in taking
decisions and actions in accordance with its responsibilities
of governance.
The
committee will report to and operate under the authority
of the Executive Council. However it should seek appropriate
expertise - having in mind the special tasks of the committee
- beyond the Executive Council, incorporating skills and
experience drawn more broadly from the Advisory Committee
and the wider membership of ICOM. Special expertise in the
academic/legal sector may be sought, as this might benefit
ICOM and its commitment to the professional work of museums
and museum personnel, and ongoing care and protection of
the world's cultural heritage.
The
committee should be well equipped with experienced persons
who could assist ICOM in advancing its knowledge, expertise,
and capacity for informed action on legal and intellectual
property issues (including issues arising through electronic
communications and ICOM's involvement in the ',museum' top
level domain).
Mandate
The committee's work should be in concert with ICOM's mission, objectives, and interests in increasingly complex legal and intellectual property matters affecting museums and museum professionals' life.
Beyond the sphere of day-to-day operational matters that are the responsibility of the Secretariat, this committee will:
- examine and advise the Council (and thereby also the Advisory Committee) on broad legal issues concerning the governance responsibilities of ICOM;
- examine and advise the Council on the broader environment of evolving legal issues affecting museums, museum professionals and the wider cultural heritage sector today;
- seek reports and advice from the task forces on National and International Committees (NCTF and ICTF) to assist Council's clear understanding in general terms on legal and property interests (especially intellectual property interests) affecting the work of museums and museum professionals 1 ;
- provide considered, informed opinion to assist ICOM and its members to act wisely in legal respects, and in certain cases pursue a strong public position on legal issues affecting museums in their co-operative care of cultural heritage;
- examine and advise ICOM on issues arising through increasing electronic communications, virtual museum activities, and legal issues attending ICOM's collaborative management of eligibility candidacy to the 'dot museum' top-level registry domain on the Internet.
Notes:
1.
There is a potential crossover here with the work of the
Finance and Resources Committee, and some liaison,
or perhaps even occasional joint-session meetings, should
be pursued. Other matters of common interest may arise similarly
that deserve consultation and liaison with the Ethics
Committee, and an integrated view of such connections
and common concerns would be of value in the advice rendered
to both the Executive Council and the Advisory Committee
of ICOM |
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