At 16:35 1999-10-15 -0400, you wrote: >Patrick Durusau wrote: <snip> >> I would suggest that the focusing on a notion of "rights" in the case of >> scholarly materials as though such material has any substantial >> commercial value prevents the exchange of information upon which >> scholars rely for their work. > >That may be. However, current U.S. law grants artists/creators (or >whoever they have given those rights to) the right to control, >disseminate, and profit from their work. That includes photographers.
And scholars (authors). >Museums and institutions do not have the right to ignore U.S. law. amalyah keshet head of visual resources, the israel museum, jerusalem board of directors, the museum computer network chair, mcn intellectual property special interest group [email protected]
