[Foundation-l] Article: Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility

[Sage Ross]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Kat Walsh<kat at mindspillage.org> wrote:
> The Executive Director for Digital Policy of the J. Paul Getty Trust
> has written an article on digitally-reproducible works of public
> domain art, and museums' mission, arguing why and how museums should
> properly make these works as unrestrictedly available as possible --
> thought people here would find it a worthwhile read:
>
> http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/hamma/11hamma.html

Along similar lines, this is worth reading:
"Archives or Assets?"
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/52/3/Archives%20or%20assets.html

It's the 2003 address to to the Society of American Archivists from
the society's president Peter B. Hirtle, in which he argues along the
same lines for archival holdings.

-Sage (User:Ragesoss)