Thought this would be of importance for some on here. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jessi DiTillio <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:04 AM Subject: [AAMG-L] Fwd: FW: report on copyright and fair use--approved version To: [email protected]
Forwarded from CAA: April 22, 2014 Dear Colleagues, We are writing to share with you a report recently published by the College Art Association (CAA) about copyright and fair use in the visual arts. Based on interviews and a field-wide survey, *Copyright, Permissions, and Fair Use among Visual Artists and the Academic and Museum Visual Arts Communities: An Issues Report *was published in February 2014 on CAA’s website and in a limited number of printed copies. Here is a link to the report: http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/FairUseIssuesReport.pdf. Please share this link with your membership. Jointly researched and written by Patricia Aufderheide, a professor in American University’s School of Communication and director of its Center for Media and Social Impact; Peter Jaszi, professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law; and graduate fellows Bryan Bello and Tijana Milosevic, the report summarizes 100 interviews with art historians, artists, museums curators, editors, and publishers describing issues related to the use of third-party images in creative and scholarly work. Their research was further informed by a survey of CAA members on fair use and a review of relevant literature and case law. Their findings reveal that art historians, artists, curators and other visual arts professionals who seek to use third-party copyrighted materials often face significant challenges in creating and disseminating new work due to the actual and perceived limitations of copyright. The authors conclude that these concerns could be meaningfully addressed by a better understanding of the scope and application of the doctrine of fair use, which is an exception in the Copyright Act that, in certain circumstances, authorizes the unlicensed use of copyrighted material. The *Issues Report* represents the culmination of the first stage in developing a code of best practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials in creative, scholarly, and curatorial work in the visual arts. It will form the basis for ten discussion groups that will be held in five cities (Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C.) over the coming year to identify areas of consensus among arts professionals—both holders and users of copyrighted materials—about what practices seem to constitute fair use. These deliberations will undergird the development of a code of best practices, which will be reviewed by CAA’s Committee on Intellectual Property, its Task Force on Fair Use, and a Legal Advisory Committee. Once finalized, the code of best practices will be presented to the CAA Board of Directors for approval and will be widely disseminated. We hope you find this assessment of current challenges to the field true to your experiences and useful in its explanation of the sources of confusion about copyright and fair use. Please feel free to share the report with your colleagues and/or use it as the basis of discussion about policies regarding the use of third-party images in your work or at your institution. CAA will continue to post updates about this project on the CAA website. We welcome your comments and questions as the project moves forward in the coming year. 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