A Legal Dictionary for Museum Professionals

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Presented in an easily-digestible format, this go-to desktop reference guide provides explanations and clarifications on a variety of issues and concerns facing today’s museum professional, including:Intellectual property issues, including copyright, trademark, service marks, and fair useCorporate issues, including non-profit status and tax exempt statusGovernance issues, including trustees and fiduciary dutiesA Legal Dictionary for Museum Professionals features three major sections.In the first, more than 100 terms such as bailment, conflict of interest, doctrine of deviation, fiduciary duty, partial gift, tort, and unclaimed property are concisely defined specifically in the context of their relevance to day-to-day museum work. In the second, ten common acronyms and symbols are explained.In the final ten additional topics are broken out into a more in-depth explanation, allowing the subtleties and complications to be examined and explained in a plain-language manner. These include ethics and the law, licensing, trademark, The Business Judgment Rule, and Non-Profit Organizations and Tax Exemption. Written by a museum director who holds a law degree and has practiced law, this reference book is intended to be kept within arm’s reach at a desk and be the first stop for a professional when a question arises.

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