Dear AMICO Rights Committee:

We've been getting a lot of feedback about user fears that the AMICO Library will "disappear" just after they have built curriculum around it, and invested a lot of time and energy in developing new teaching methods that take advantage of digital resources.

One strategy to address this would be to alter the AMICO Library University Agreement to offer an option to buy out a limited number of works on termination: a subscriber could purchase a fixed number of digital images from the AMICO Library, of a maximum quality (resolution, color depth, dpi), at a set price.

Several questions are open about this:

- obviously, we'd have to exclude all works that were licensed by AMICO Members for contribution to the Library. That could be made very clear up front.

- We would need to set a price. The Focus Groups at VRA and CAA seemed to indicate that about $5 per image might be ok -- maybe a bit more although all would prefer less :)

- We'd have to write a contract about how these images could be used. This would be a 'perpetual license' for a fixed fee that restricted use of these images to the same uses that can be made of the AMICO Library as a whole.

What do YOU THINK of this idea? Questions, comments, reactions please. Post your thoughts to the Rights Committee discussion list, or email me <jtrant@amico.org>

Thanks!

jennifer