On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Elias Friedman elipongo@gmail.com wrote:
The new policy is still too restrictive for commons:
"...we do insist that all images personally shot be used ONLY for personal reference. They cannot be published for commercial use."
Regardless of their photography policy, the problem here is the vast majority of their collection and exhibitions contain post-1923 works. Per derivative works part of copyright law, you need permission from the artist. (unlikely to happen!)
For pre-1923 works, we could (unadvised!) do like we did with the National Portrait Gallery and just steal images off their website! Per derivative works, photographing the item does not give them copyright.
-Katie (@aude)
Sent from my Droid2 Elias Friedman A.S., EMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי elipongo@gmail.com On Dec 24, 2010 8:29 AM, "Liam Wyatt" liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
I just got sent this:
http://hyperallergic.com/15410/museum-of-arts-design-lifts-photo-ban/
Thought folks in NYC might like to know :-) (although, I suppose that many things in there are still copyrighted
which
means that - with no USA freedom of panorama - you still can't put them
on
Commons...)
Perhaps you already new this and it's old news, but good news
nevertheless!
Do you have, and if not, do you think it would be valuable to create, a document listing the status of various cultural institutions in the NYC
area
according to their photographic and other policies that have bearing on free-culture? Perhaps that might be a good pilot project for the free-culture alliance??
-Liam
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