Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:29:26 -0700
From: Terry <TERRY@ccp.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: Note: AMICO: Artists' Rights
To: jtrant@amico.org (J. Trant and D. Bearman)
Reply-to: terry@ccp.arizona.edu
Organization: Center for Creative Photography
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Jennifer and David:  several comments to:
> PAGE 2: SPECIFICALLY FOR ARTISTS
> 
> Art Museum Image Consortium Artists' Frequently Asked Questions
<snip> 
> What Rights do AMICO Members Want? Artists are asked to give a
> non-exclusive, limited license to AMICO members to use reproductions
> of their works for educational purposes. These include making
> regular contributions to the AMICO Library. AMICO Members ask for
> the right to reproduce the work (make a digital image), distribute
> copies of it (as part of the Library), publicly display it (e.g.
> project it in a class-room), and to create derivative works based on
> it.
I don't think the sentence  about "making regular contributions to 
the AMICO library" is very clear.  I suspect some people will think 
we're talking about $ here.  You could probably delete this sentence. 

<snip>
> Can Users Make Adaptations of an Artist's Work? Yes. AMICO
> Agreements allow users to make certain kinds of modifi-cations to
> the images in the AMICO Library. For example, a teacher could draw a
> diagram over a painting to illustrate its composition, a student
> could incorporate a work into a larger multimedia project, or a
> researcher could crop details from images to compare works of art.
> Adaptations can't be redistributed.

Could you elaborate somewhat on what you mean by redistribution?  If
I were an artist I would be tempted to say that a student including
my artwork in "a larger multimedia project" would be a form of
distributing my work in a manner I can't approve.  The educational 
examples you use are clear, but this one reeks of appropriation.  Are 
we drawing any differences between an art history student making a 
multimedia classroom presentation and a studio student creating works 
of art that borrow works (or parts of works) from the AMICO library?

Terry Pitts