Thanks so much, all! We really appreciate the additional perspective.
-----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Heidi Raatz Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 7:41 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Bridgeman Images question Hi Maggie, I'd like to echo what Amalyah said so succinctly. Mia has had a terrific professional relationship with Bridgeman Images in place for ~5 years now. They represent a selection of our museum's images and primarily assist us with requests for commercial uses of such. We regularly provide updated photography to Bridgeman to ensure that our collection is represented via quality images. We also provide hi-res images directly (and freely) for educational, scholarly, research, non-commercial uses, including to the museum community for exhibition catalogues and support, monographs, catalogues raisonné, etc. People are free to download images directly from our Collection website and many of our works in the public domain have been shared openly elsewhere on the web (Wikimedia Commons for ex.). As Amalyah mentions, image licensing can coexist with open access policies, and the revenue source is indeed helpful. Best regards, Heidi Message: 7 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:36:18 +0300 From: Amalyah Keshet <amalyah.kes...@gmail.com> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l@mcn.edu> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Bridgeman Images question Message-ID: <CAKD+RFp1BPjoZYE5z7CKp=svt3qxbhvykharpg3yh8ez1nn...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Haggie: I've worked very successfully with Bridgeman for years. They are professional, friendly, and scrupulously copyright-conscious. I suggest you contact them, explain the situation, get their side of the story, and yes definitely offer to provide better subsitute images. This will most likely lead to their offering to set up a contractual arrangement to represent your museum's images, sharing revenue, and I can definitely recommend doing so. It's a very comfortable additional revenue source. You can take it and develop the relationship from there. n.b. Image files -- the tools that are in demand for high-quality printing -- can be provided, licensed, sold precisely as such: as high quality digital files. This is separate from the underlying work of art that appears in the file; that work of art can be protected by copyright or it can be in the publilc domain. Logically, the value or price of the tool/file is separate from that of the artist's copyright clearance, which may or not apply. Bridgeman takes care of clearing artists' copyrights if that part of the equation applies. They also represent a large number of artists: http://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-GB/bridgeman-copyright-service Good luck! *Amalyah Keshet * *Image Resources and Copyright Management, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (retired)* -- Heidi S. Raatz, MLIS Visual Resources Librarian | Permissions Officer Minneapolis Institute of Art 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 612.870.3196 | hra...@artsmia.org | www.artsmia.org | VisRes Request Form [internal use] <http://ow.ly/43q4p> _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
