Artists Rights Under VARA and CAPA and the Twitchell Experience
June 24, 2009, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
With William J. Brutocao, Esq.
DESCRIPTION: In 1980 California passed the California Art Preservation Act (CAPA), the first law in this country providing some moral rights to artists. In 1990 the United States passed the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), which grant American artists some moral rights, most importantly the right of attribution and the right to prevent mutilation, distortion or destruction of qualifying works. VARA and CAPA were pivotal in the lawsuit by Kent Twitchell against the United States and 12 other defendants for the desecration of his renowned mural of Ed Ruscha. We settled Twitchell's case for over $1 million. Not everyone can expect similar results, but artists should be aware of their rights under VARA and CAPA, how to protect those rights, and what to do when one of their works has been damaged or destroyed.
SPEAKER: William J. Brutocao is the head of the Litigation Department for Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson. He has wide-ranging litigation experience in numerous areas of the law and has concentrated his efforts in intellectual property litigation for approximately 15 years. Mr. Brutocao has a liberal arts background and excels at making complex legal issues, including patent matters, understandable to non-technical persons, such as a judge or jury that would be expected to resolve such issues. Due to his broad-based experience, he is the firm’s foremost analyst and strategist with respect to all types of litigation matters. Mr. Brutocao is an adjunct professor in the subject of intellectual property law at the University of La Verne College of Law. Since 2000, he has been the Chief Consulting Editor for California Intellectual Property Laws, published by Matthew Bender®. Mr. Brutocao graduated from University of California, Hastings College of Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Pasadena Bar Association. He served as the lead trial attorney for Twitchell.
WHEN: June 24, 2009, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Avenue 50 Studio, 131 North Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA 90042
ADMISSION: General Admission: $20, Members of CLA and Co-sponsoring organizations: $10, Senior Citizens and Students: $5
REGISTRATION: Call CLA at (310) 998-5590, or email us (please include your contact info and specify the workshop date(s)) at: clasocaled@aol.com
These workshops were made possible, in part, by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support provided by the California Arts Council, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the California Community Foundation.
LAUSD and the Arts
The Los Angeles Unified School District recognizes that education in the arts make a unique and vital contribution to a child*s cognitive development. Therefore the District is committed to providing all students with opportunities to attain a substantive education in the visual and performing arts at all grade levels, an education that will prepare them to create, collaborate, problem solve, perform, and appreciate works of art.
On July 22, 1999, the Los Angeles Unified School District*s Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution to commence a 10-year effort to establish arts for all students, at all grade levels, in all schools, in all four art forms. To accomplish this goal, LAUSD*s Arts Education Branch began Arts Program Schools (APS) at the elementary level. In the first eight years of the program the number of schools participating has grown from 54 to 392 and it is projected that by 2010 all elementary schools in the District will have the opportunity to participate in the APS project.
In the 2007 - 2008 school year the Arts Education Branch launched a new project at the middle school level to meet the needs of middle and high school arts teachers. The Arts Bridging Teacher Project assigns various visual and performing arts teachers to feeder schools in order to build enrollment and experience in individual art forms .
In addition to the four arts content areas mentioned above, Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Art, the Los Angeles Unified School District, Arts Education Branch (AEB) seeks to establish and support Media Arts as a fifth standards-based Arts Content discipline. Media Arts are an art form comprising of a range of creative and expressive uses of media and communications technologies, including, but not limited to , digital imaging, graphic and web design, video/film production, television, digital music, video gaming, mobile devices and interactive media.
Work has begun on the next 10-year District Arts Education Plan. The second 10-year plan must extend the critical and necessary components of a well-rounded, dynamic and rich arts education and will focus on a K - 12 continuous and articulated curriculum. The Los Angeles Unified School District recognize that the Arts programs benefit students from the entire spectrum of educational programs and demographics, including special education, at-risk, GATE, and English Learners. LAUSD further understands that the Arts, (all five) increase student engagement, empower students' creative voices, and promote active participation in an increasingly networked world.
On July 22, 1999, the Los Angeles Unified School District*s Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution to commence a 10-year effort to establish arts for all students, at all grade levels, in all schools, in all four art forms. To accomplish this goal, LAUSD*s Arts Education Branch began Arts Program Schools (APS) at the elementary level. In the first eight years of the program the number of schools participating has grown from 54 to 392 and it is projected that by 2010 all elementary schools in the District will have the opportunity to participate in the APS project.
In the 2007 - 2008 school year the Arts Education Branch launched a new project at the middle school level to meet the needs of middle and high school arts teachers. The Arts Bridging Teacher Project assigns various visual and performing arts teachers to feeder schools in order to build enrollment and experience in individual art forms .
In addition to the four arts content areas mentioned above, Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Art, the Los Angeles Unified School District, Arts Education Branch (AEB) seeks to establish and support Media Arts as a fifth standards-based Arts Content discipline. Media Arts are an art form comprising of a range of creative and expressive uses of media and communications technologies, including, but not limited to , digital imaging, graphic and web design, video/film production, television, digital music, video gaming, mobile devices and interactive media.
Work has begun on the next 10-year District Arts Education Plan. The second 10-year plan must extend the critical and necessary components of a well-rounded, dynamic and rich arts education and will focus on a K - 12 continuous and articulated curriculum. The Los Angeles Unified School District recognize that the Arts programs benefit students from the entire spectrum of educational programs and demographics, including special education, at-risk, GATE, and English Learners. LAUSD further understands that the Arts, (all five) increase student engagement, empower students' creative voices, and promote active participation in an increasingly networked world.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
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