Beginning with the 2003 Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, presenters and participants noticed changes on the registration form primarily related to intellectual property issues. After the 2002 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, several companies started offering free Continuing Medical Education programs based on AACAP's Annual Meeting. These companies erroneously presented these CME programs as if affiliated or sponsored by AACAP. The headline for the announcement was "American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 49th Annual Meeting," and the small print offered disclaimers that AACAP did not endorse the online CME.
The AACAP takes pride in its rigorous development of our CME programs. For this reason, AACAP sought legal counsel which recommended the following:
On your registration form, you are required to sign the following statement:
"By registering for this meeting, registrant grants AACAP and its sublicensee(s) the right to record his/her presentation, remarks, appearance, or other participation, and to reproduce and distribute such recording by any means and for any purpose without payment to the registrant. Registrant also agrees that he/she will not reproduce, distribute, summarize, adapt, publicly perform, or publicly display any presentation or accompanying materials, in whole or in part, for commercial purposes without prior written authorization from the copyright owner(s), nor will registrant use the AACAP name or logo in connection with any commercial use of such materials without written authorization from AACAP."
At the beginning of each presentation, speakers are required to make the following statement:
"This presentation and the accompanying materials are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, distributed, or summarized, in whole or in part, for any commercial purpose without prior written authorization from the copyright owner(s). In addition, AACAP's name and logo may not be used in connection with any commercial use of these presentation materials without AACAP's prior written authorization."
