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

[Michael Snow]

Sage Ross wrote:
> 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.
>   
Indeed, this issue for Wikisource is a parallel to that of public domain 
art for Wikimedia Commons. Properly speaking, I would not consider 
something an archive if it is not accessible. For collections that are 
not available for study, the more correct term would be "vault".

--Michael Snow