Re: [MCN-L] Copyright at the Museum: Using the Publication Doctrine to Free Art and History.

2015-07-28 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Excellent article on an extremely difficult point of US copyright law (even more difficult when viewed from abroad). Thanks for posting. The publication doctrine creates, depressingly, yet another class of “orphan works:” orphans who might have parents, but are trapped in archives with

[MCN-L] Scanner choices

2015-07-28 Thread Elspeth Cowell
Hello all, We are a mid-size museum and are in the process of analyzing our scanners options for digitization of our collection. All our reproduction photography is currently done using digital cameras and copy stands. This has been effective for us until now because our collection is very

Re: [MCN-L] Quick survey on

2015-07-28 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hi Adrian, Can I forward to this to other mailing lists where professionals are who have also released content under open licenses? Sarah On Jul 27, 2015, at 11:42 PM, Adrian Kingston adri...@tepapa.govt.nz wrote: Hi all Just over a year ago Te Papa released over 3 images (now

[MCN-L] Quick survey on

2015-07-28 Thread Adrian Kingston
Hi all Just over a year ago Te Papa released over 3 images (now over 48,000) for high resolution download under No Known Copyright Restrictions statement or a CC BY-ND-NC licence. We are doing a decent analysis of the impact of the release, and would really like some benchmark data. If

Re: [MCN-L] Quick survey on

2015-07-28 Thread Adrian Kingston
Hi Sarah, Absolutely, that would be great! (Maybe fix my stupid subject line mistake first...) Cheers Adrian -Original Message- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Sarah Stierch Sent: Wednesday, 29 July 2015 4:50 a.m. To: Museum Computer Network