Very slippery slope. Of lesser import but still curious... how did whomever posted these to Flicker migrate any associated metadata? Cut and paste?
david hughes Associate, Old Colorado City Historical Society Colorado Springs, CO > RE: "Not all of their photographs are created by Smithsonian employees, > but by for-hire photographers. Thus they are indeed protected by > copyright, transferred by the photographer to the Smithsonian." > > If these photographers were hired using federal funds then they might be > considered federal workers (in their contract capacity), giving favor to > the argument that the photographs are part of the public domain. > > It's a very slippery slope. > > > Chad M Petrovay > Collections Database Administrator > The Walters Art Museum > 600 North Charles Street > Baltimore, MD 21210 > P: 410.547.9000 x266 > F: 410.837.4846 > cpetrovay at thewalters.org > www.thewalters.org > Exhibitions: > Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt on view June 15 - August 26 > Linda Day Clark: The Gee's Bend Photographs on view June 15 - September > 2 > > -----Original Message----- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of > amalyah keshet > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:40 PM > To: mcn-l at toronto.mediatrope.com > Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Group defies Smithsonian copyright claim > > >> http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/05/18/group_defies_ > smithsonian_copyright_claim/ >> > > Group defies Smithsonian copyright claim > >> Brett Zongker >> The Associated Press >> May 21, 2007 >> >> Grabbing pictures of iconic Smithsonian Institution artifacts just >> got a whole lot easier. >> >> Before, if you wanted to get a picture of the Wright Brothers' >> plane, you could go to the Smithsonian Images Web site and pay for a >> print or high-resolution image after clicking through several >> warnings about copyrights and other restrictions -- and only if you >> were a student, teacher or pledging not to use it to make money. >> >> Now, you can just go to the free photo-sharing Web site flickr.com. >> A nonprofit group is challenging the copyrights and restrictions on >> images being sold by the Smithsonian. But instead of going to court, >> the group downloaded all 6,288 photos online and posted them >> Wednesday night on the free Internet site. (more) > > > BTW, regarding the claim that all Smithsonian photos are in the > public domain because they were created by government employees: > several years ago I checked this out. Not all of their photographs > are created by Smithsonian employees, but by for-hire > photographers. Thus they are indeed protected by copyright, > transferred by the photographer to the Smithsonian. > > > > Amalyah Keshet > Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management > The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il > Chair, MCN IP special interest group www.mcn.edu > Blog www.musematic.net > _______________________________________________ > 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 at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > _______________________________________________ > 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 at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
