Deborah, et al., You can't imagine how great it felt to read your message re: image fair use best practices for museums. Our department here at MIA has been tasked with exploring the creation of just such a document. Even better to have it "industry" or professional assn. supported--so we can stand together . I am hoping to attend MCN this year and you can bet I'll be sitting in on that SIG if I do. Thanks for the day brightener. Heidi Message: 1 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:10:00 -0400 From: Deborah Wythe <deborahwy...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] rights question To: <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Message-ID: <BLU126-W22FB0F65EA251F818AC50DCFE20 at phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
The IP SIG meeting in Portland is going to consider the possibility of getting together and working on a fair use best practices for museum collections, along the lines of what the documentary film makers have done: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf. Other "industry groups" have banded together as well: there's safety in numbers and consensus (if you can reach it) and it might be a way for us not to have to reinvent the wheel at each institution. Deb Wythe Brooklyn Museum deborahwythe at hotmail.com Heidi S. Raatz | Visual Resources Librarian Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 (612) 870-3196 | (612) 870-3029 - permissions | hraatz at artsmia.org | permissions at artsmia.org| www.artsmia.org ( http://www.artsmia.org/ )
