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From: "Caroline Usher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lutenet" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 8:23 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute iconographic project - a proposal]
There is a long-standing effort to do for musical iconography what RILM
and RIMM do for musicology and music manuscripts, respectively:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/rcmi/index.htm
They don't seem to be very web-oriented. Possibly they are concerned
about copyright issues in putting their images online (a 400-year-old
work of art is in the public domain, but the museum slide or
reproduction in a published volume is not.)
This is indeed a problem. An irritating one, in that it stops a lot of
relevant, possibly creative, interaction of cultural initiatives.
But maybe the iconography site could - initially, anyway - be based on
pics that are already on the Net? That is, merely a treasure-trove of URLs.
That wouldn't step on anyone's toes, surely?
Anyway, why are we all so afraid of the "copyright"-bogeyman?
I mean, the Feds haven't nuked YouTube yet, have they?
Just wondering,
Arne.
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