Rina Elster Pantalony, an intellectual property lawyer with the Canadian Justice Department, has worked on copyright and digital matters for the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canadian Heritage Information Network and the Virtual Museum of Canada since 1994.  In 2000, while on sabbatical, she acted as intellectual property counsel to a joint Internet venture between the Tate Modern and The Museum of Modern Art.   Ms. Pantalony returned to the Canadian Department of Justice in 2002 as legal counsel to the Virtual Museum of Canada and was appointed recently as principal legal counsel to the Library and Archives of Canada, carrying out her responsibilities from New York .  She is faculty at the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School for the Arts, New York University where she teaches copyright law and policy  in the Moving Image and Archive Preservation Program, a graduate program at the school.  She has published and spoken extensively on intellectual property issues affecting cultural heritage.