[MCN-L] Permissions

2013-05-27 Thread Kenneth Hamma
and the GNU Free Documentation License. Cheers, ken Kenneth Hamma Yale Center for British Art kenneth.hamma at yale.edu On May 27, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Peter B. Hirtle pbh6 at cornell.edu wrote: For a different perspective from a different field, MCN-L readers might be interested in a forthcoming

[MCN-L] Open Access Open Data

2012-08-24 Thread Kenneth Hamma
This short essay by Dominic Oldman, Deputy Head of IT at the BM, nicely points to the value of more open policies, like those recently put in place by Yale and the National Gallery of Art, with semantic web protocols: http://www.oldman.me.uk/blog/2012/08/ ken Kenneth Hamma Yale Center

[MCN-L] The Copyright Wars - a historical perspective

2009-10-16 Thread Kenneth Hamma
Thanks, Eve. It is amusing, but anyone who has seen Lessig's PPT knows that the presentation lacks, um, spice. Is that available anywhere? ken Kenneth Hamma +1 310 270 8008 khamma at me.com 368 Patel Pl Palm Springs CA 92264 On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Eve Sinaiko evesinaiko

[MCN-L] NPG and Wikipedia (IP, website security)

2009-07-13 Thread Kenneth Hamma
. Leaving the DMCA's prohibition on circumventing digital protections aside for the moment, might this be the sound of the other shoe dropping? The NPG have certainly teed this up in a way that will be difficult to ignore - in law or public policy. ken Kenneth Hamma +1 310 270 8008 khamma

[MCN-L] Image Licensing

2009-05-28 Thread Kenneth Hamma
(National Gallery = as good as it gets) that most everyone who is drawn by that won't care that you might not have a monopoly on the use of the images. ken Kenneth Hamma On May 28, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Newman, Alan wrote: And cheers to you G?enter. Very nicely done. If we are wrangled

[MCN-L] Image Sizes

2009-05-06 Thread Kenneth Hamma
Products v. Tang Electronic Corp (2000), where it was ruled that there is very broad scope for copyright in photographs, encompassing almost any photograph that reflects more than 'slavish copying'.[1] But this is still of very limited applicability. ken Kenneth Hamma +1 310 270 8008 khamma

[MCN-L] Re image 'theft'

2009-05-06 Thread Kenneth Hamma
to a complete waiver of copyright. ken Kenneth Hamma +1 310 270 8008 khamma at me.com 368 Patel Place Palm Springs CA 92264 On May 6, 2009, at 3:40 AM, Amalyah Keshet [akeshet at imj.org.il] wrote: Just to stir the pot a bit: Not every museum or archive is a public charity. Even

[MCN-L] image sizes

2009-05-05 Thread Kenneth Hamma
any hope of enforcing the use limitations - if they had ever intended to do so for images of public domain works. ken Kenneth Hamma +1 310 270 8008 khamma at me.com 368 Patel Place Palm Springs CA 92264 On May 5, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Real, Will wrote: Matt, you are probably right, but 500

[MCN-L] Re image 'theft'

2009-05-05 Thread Kenneth Hamma
one occasion been described purely as an effort to maintain monopoly control. Is it possible to square this with public charities managing public domain collections? ken Kenneth Hamma +1 310 270 8008 khamma at me.com 368 Patel Place Palm Springs CA 92264 On May 5, 2009, at 12:59 PM

[MCN-L] IP SIG: ASPP Guidelines for Locating Copyright Owners ..

2008-07-24 Thread Kenneth Hamma
Who / What is the American Society of Picture Professionals and why should their guidelines - in a de fact sort of way - be of special interest to cultural heritage institutions operating as public charities? Just curious. ken On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Diane M. Zorich dzorich at

[MCN-L] Pan Zoom Server

2007-09-05 Thread Kenneth Hamma
Joanna, We are looking (with National Gallery in London who is already way ahead of us) at IIPImage Server along with java scripts to make it do interesting things beyond simply viewing images. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iipimage and a java browser demo:

[MCN-L] Pan Zoom Server

2007-09-05 Thread Kenneth Hamma
On 9/5/07 4:28 PM, Kenneth Hamma khamma at getty.edu wrote: Joanna, We are looking (with National Gallery in London who is already way ahead of us) at IIPImage Server along with java scripts to make it do interesting things beyond simply viewing images. See: http://sourceforge.net

[MCN-L] Fwd: EMC grants to local libraries

2007-06-21 Thread Kenneth Hamma
With apologies for potential multiple postings, but in the interest of a more comprehensive record involving all collecting institutions, please see the following email: ken Daniel Morrow dan at jamestownexploration.com 6/19/2007 8:04 AM Dear friends, EMC Corporation has long been a

[MCN-L] CDWA-Lite Review

2007-05-10 Thread Kenneth Hamma
Riley, Indiana University Michael Jenkins, Metropolitan Museum of Art Kenneth Hamma, Getty Trust CDWA-Lite: getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/cdwalite.html Summary: Over the last two years ARTstor, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and RLG Programs/OCLC have worked together to develop

[MCN-L] Metrics Evaluation SIG

2006-09-21 Thread Kenneth Hamma
) very much like similar measurements of exhibition attendance. All quarterly reports since the third quarter of FY01 - along with other usability studies - are available at http://www.getty.edu/about/institutional_research . [ http://tinyurl.com/jkjjk ] ken Kenneth Hamma Exec. Director

Section 108 Comments Deadline Extended to April 28

2006-04-12 Thread Kenneth Hamma
://www.loc.gov/section108/ ken Kenneth Hamma Exec. Director, Digital Policy and Initiatives J Paul Getty Trust 1200 Getty Center Drive, 400 Los Angeles, CA 90049-1681 +1 310 440 7186 kha...@getty.edu www.getty.edu www.getty.museum You are currently subscribed to MCN-L, the listserv of the Museum

US Copyright Act, Section 108

2006-04-10 Thread Kenneth Hamma
: The Federal Register Notice is here: http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2006/71fr7999.pdf The Library of Congress 108 Study Group is here: http://www.loc.gov/section108/ Email comments to: section...@loc.gov Include your name and institutional coordinates. ken Kenneth Hamma Exec. Director, Digital

Re: IP SIG: COPYRIGHT OFFICE REQUESTS COMMENTS

2005-10-06 Thread Kenneth Hamma