Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: mc...@world.std.com From: "Diane M. Zorich" <zor...@powergrid.electriciti.com> Subject: Call for participation -- Museums and IP Primer
Is your museum grappling with intellectual property issues (e.g., trademark or copyright)? The American Association of Museums (AAM) seeks your help in identifying intellectual property issues of concern to the museum community. AAM recently was awarded a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to collaborate with the Getty Information Institute and the J. Paul Getty Trust in developing and disseminating a primer on the legal and ethical issues of intellectual property for museums. To ensure that this primer covers the intellectual property concerns relevant to the museum community, we are asking those in the community to send us questions, examples, case studies, and any best practices and procedures you may have developed on intellectual property issues. With your valuable examples and insights, we hope to develop a primer that addresses a broad array of intellectual property issues specific to the museum community. Some examples of the kind of questions and real life issues we have received to date include the following: * What copyright issues must a museum consider when setting up a home page on the World Wide Web? * When a museum buys a painting from a living artist, who has the right to create reproductions of the painting? * Does the museum have to obtain permission and pay a royalty to ASCAP for music played during an opening event? Would a museum need to pay ASCAP fees for music used on a local cable television program designed to build its audience? * Who owns the copyright for research done on behalf of a museum? * A museum is planning an exhibition that includes reproductions of newspaper articles. The newspapers are defunct and the writers and photographers are unknown. How does the museum get permission to use these materials? Is the museum legally required to obtain permission? Who should it contact? * A museum is being given a collection of children's books and wants to do an exhibit based on these books. However, the donor does not hold the copyright. Can the museum blow up images from the books for the exhibit? Please send your particular intellectual property questions, examples, or comments to us at: copyri...@aam-us.org If you have any questions about the project, please direct them to me at the email address listed below. Thank you. Diane M. Zorich Project Manager, Museums and Intellectual Property Primer Project c/o 7925 Via Ensenada Carlsbad, CA 92009 Voice# 760 942-3633 Fax# 760 942-3566 Email: zor...@electriciti.com