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Hi all, Been following the list for a while, first time post. A colleague of mine and I are putting together a panel for SCMS, which is in Chicago in the spring of 2017. We think that the issues that we'll be dealing with on this panel might be of interest to some and it would be wonderful to have a paper or two on how such things affect the exhibition and preservation of New Media art and objects. Please find all the info below. Best, Skot Deeming. Black Boxes, Walled Gardens: Political Economies of Copyright and Rights Management Technologies. Panel Summary: The history of digital media and consumer electronics is rife with the development of proprietary systems of control and legal protocols which delimit, dictate and alter our relationships to media consumption. From the origins of Western intellectual property law, through ongoing legislative alterations and interventions, to the recent acceleration of algorithmic approaches to the flow of cultural products and the limitations put on their use and circulation, we are witness to an unprecedented rise in contemporary techniques and strategies for rights management; birthing new means and methods of control and circumvention in accessing information--and culture. This panel seeks to interrogate these historical shifts and cultural modes, examining approaches to rights management across media and asking questions about key political economic issues within copyright and rights management technologies across media. From Macrovision to software DRM, we wish to develop our understanding of the differences between copyright, licensing, and the material conditions of media circulation across digital and analog platforms, and further construct the conversation around how end users bend their tribal understandings of intellectual property and fair use to their own ends. We invite abstract proposals for papers that address and expand upon work being done on the following topics: - Practices of rights management on social media platforms - Cultures and techniques of piracy and bootlegging - Circulation both official and illicit - Political Economies of firmware - Niche communities and approaches to intellectual property - Copyleft and creative commons licensing - Legal approaches to media circulation - The materiality of media in rights management - Fair use and fair dealing - YouTube and takedown notices - DMCA and TPP: implications and impacts - Open source and open access - Rights holder responses to participatory culture Please send abstracts of 250 words accompanied by a 100-word bio and partial bibliography to [log in to unmask] by August 5th, 2016. Responses to successful submissions will be sent out no later than August 12th. Final panel proposal will be submitted to SCMS by August 31st. The conference will be held March 22-26, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois. Keywords: Copyright, Digital Rights Management, Liscensing, Digital Media, New Media. Partial Panel Bibliography: Coombe, Rosemary, Darren Wershler, and Martin Zeilinger. Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online. Toronto: U of T Press, 2013. Murray, Laura J., S. Tina Piper, and Kirsty Robertson. Putting Intellectual Property in Its Place: Rights Discourses, Creative Labour, and the Everyday. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. Guertin, Carolyn. Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic. 2012. ------------------------------------------------------ skot deeming, aka mrghosty http://www.mrghosty.com h <http://www.teamvector.tumblr.com>ttp://www.vectorfestival.org