[MCN-L] IP SIG: LACMA's Magritte exhibit: This is not fair use

2007-01-22 Thread Real, Will
Richard, et al., I wonder if the guards at LACMA (or any museum) could tell disgruntled patrons there are images of the exhibition on the museum website that are available according to the Terms of Use, which almost always allows downloading without permission for personal, non-commercial use such

[MCN-L] CAL SIG: Notes from our November meeting in Pasadena

2007-01-22 Thread Kendrick, Margaret
Greetings, CAL SIG - Proposals for MCN 2007 Conference sessions or workshops will be accepted from February 5th through March 2nd, so I'm finally sending out notes from our meeting at the 2006 Conference where we came up with a number of great ideas. If this makes sense, let Margaret know if y

[MCN-L] IP SIG: LACMA's Magritte exhibit: This is not fair use

2007-01-22 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Richard: At first glance, the article contains quite a few mistakes regarding legal issues. Example: "When we absolve curators of responsibility for defending our fair use rights..." Well, we do NOT have a fair use right to photograph, without the artist's permission, works protected by co

[MCN-L] IP SIG: LACMA's Magritte exhibit: This is not fair use

2007-01-22 Thread Perian Sully
I also saw that article and had some issue with it, too. I'm pretty pro-CC and free-use in most cases, but as Amalyah said, museums don't always (or usually) have the option to make everything fair-use. It's really out of our hands. And so I find it intensely frustrating that a lot of copyfight