We are a small but diverse group of Rights and Reproduction people. If you have ideas or would like to help with any of our proposed projects let me know. Thanks.
MINUTES Rights and Reproductions Information Network (RARIN) Open Forum May 14, 2002 Hyatt Regency Hotel - Reverchon Room 6:00 - 7:30 P.M. In attendance: · Vanessa Burkhart, Head Registrar, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Forum Leader, [email protected] · Ruth Roberts, Coordinator of Rights and Reproductions, Indianapolis Museum of Art, [email protected] · Jeanne Lil Chvosta, Musuem Consultant, Dallas, Texas, [email protected] · Anne Sullivan, Museum Registrar, Arizona State University, [email protected] · Elizabeth Aldred, Assistant Registrar, The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, [email protected] · Suzanne Quigley, Head Registrar, Whitney Museum of American Art, [email protected] · Gillian Nagler, Assistant Curator, The Currier Gallery of Art, [email protected] · Devon L. Pyle-Vowles, Collections Manager, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, also Vice Chair to the Board of the Registrars Committee, AAM, [email protected] · Monica Wolf, Registrarial Assistant, The Cleveland Museum of Art, [email protected] · Jennifer Roy, Assistant Registrar, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, [email protected] · Claire Kelly, Exhibitions and Loans Coordinator, Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, [email protected] · Jennifer Ickes, Rights and Reproductions, New Orleans Museum of Art, [email protected] · Leslie Freund, Collections Manager, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, [email protected] The Rights and Reproduction Information Network (RARIN) is a taskforce of the Registrars Com-mittee - a Standing Professional Committee of the American Association of Museums. The web-site address is: http://www.panix.com/~squigle/rarin/01rcsite.html. Please send any forms or in-formation you would like to see on this website to Suzanne Quigley. She will update the site in the near future. The registrar's listserv and the museum computer network listserv were also men-tioned as good resources for those interested in rights and reproductions. RARIN was formed several years ago and this is the 4th annual roundtable - an open forum for anyone interested in sharing information about rights and reproductions. Last year copies of forms and a copyright policy draft from the Indianapolis Museum of Art were passed out. These forms are available today. If anyone would like a copy of the IMA's final and approved version of the in- tellectual property policy, please give Ruth your business card with email address. Several future projects were discussed: 1. The creation and publication of a handbook for rights and reproductions procedure 2. The publishing of articles about the same 3. The creation of a program for next year's AAM meeting in Portland - studying the possibil-ity of bringing in guest speakers. New program forms must be in to AAM by June of this year. 4. The updating of the Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum rights and reproductions survey from the mid-90's 5. The continuation of this ad hoc forum at the Portland meeting next year Discussion was opened up to the group and support was overwhelming for the creation a hand-book. Two people, Jeanne Lil Chvosta and Elizabeth Aldred, volunteered to begin this project. Vanessa Burkhart and Ruth Roberts will begin study for the new survey. Please feel free to email any of these people with ideas and/or assistance. Also if you would like to help with a program for next year, please let Vanessa know. Several other issues were brought up in general discussion. Some could be addressed in the sur-vey. 1. Where should rights and reproductions reside in a museum? Several departments were represented as homes for r&r including registration, curatorial, photo services. 2. Would AAM sponsor another rights and reproductions seminar during 2003? Several of us had attended previous seminars and found them to be quite helpful and a wonderful re-source for both new and experienced r&r administrators. 3. Discussion of copyright and procedure for permissions when the institution does not own the copyright. 4. How do museums deal with works by contemporary artists when issuing permissions? 5. How do we deal with clearing houses, rights groups, estates, living artists? ARS, VAGA, VARA? 6. Should we create our own listserv? SFMOMA has a listserv we might want to look at. 7. Outsourcing rights and reproductions 8. Kelly vs. Arribasoft: Thumbnails are considered fair use but there is no definition of "thumbnail" 9. Permissions for non-standard forms - i.e. video and sound (through ASCAP, BMI?) 10. Rights and reproductions modules in various collections management programs. Collec-tions by Vernon (?) was recommended. 11. The standardization of digital images for various usages. Suzanne will put the scanning manual from the Whitney up on the RARIN website. 12. Price lists and whether or not standardization of prices by museums is an issue Many questions were raised and this year we hope to be able to better answer them through a va-riety of projects. Enthusiasm was particularly encouraging. - Ruth Roberts Coordinator, Rights & Reproductions Indianapolis Museum of Art 1200 West 38th Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46208 USA 317-923-1331 extension 171 fax: 317-926-8931 [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
