RIGHTS COMMITTEE
Goal: Define AMICO's Licensing Frameworks

Sections:	To Do	Accomplishments	Guidelines	Meetings	Documents	Background
Chair Martha King National Gallery of Canada			Staff Contact Executive Director	Members  See the list	Discussions Contribute <amico.rights@update.amico.org> View sent messages

TO DO (as of the AMICO Annual Meeting, June 2002)
Artists and Estates	implement the ARS agreement implement the VAGA Agreement develop agreements with Canadian Societies, other societies develop a model AMICO artist's request and agreement coordinate work with artists that are not represented by a society
Antenna Audio	develop agreements to use each others productions
University Agreement Long Form	create mechanisms to facilitate reporting of local mounting and adaptations
Reproduction Request	implement online reproduction request form
Moral Rights and Adaptations	write Guidelines for Users
Copyright Developments	monitor other initiatives and developments

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
	Work done to date

GUIDELINES

AMICO / ARS Agreement

• How to include works represented by ARS in The AMICO Library.
  Action: Follow these guidelines in your submissions to AMICO
  Review Lists of Artists Represented by ARS

AMICO / VAGA Agreement

• How to include works represented by VAGA in The AMICO Library.
  Action: Follow these guidelines in your submissions to AMICO
  Review Lists of Artists Represented by VAGA
  

Artists Rights Request Letter

• January 2002 revision based on 2001 Members meeting and 2000 Draft
  Action: Use this revision as a model letter
• Review Letters in use
  Action: send in your comments. If your letter isn't here, please email it to the list.
  • Art Gallery of Ontario's Rights Request (.PDF)
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Rights Request (.PDF)
  • Cleveland Museum of Art's Rights Request (.PDF)
  • Center for Creative Photography Rights Request Letter (.PDF) and Form (.PDF)
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts' Rights Request (.PDF)
  • Walker Art Center's Rights Request (.PDF)
• Artists FAQ (PDF)
  Action: Review and comment. Send your thoughts to the Rights Committee List

Direct Approaches to Artists and Estates

• Members lists of artists Members work closely with
  Action: let AMICO know the artists with whom you have agreements. Email info@amico.org

Antenna Audio

AMICO has negotiated and agreement with Antenna Audio to enable members to include sound files in their AMICO Library contributions. See the procedure online. For works produced by a museum other than the one holding the work, there are some rights issues to resolve:

• Members should be encouraged to grant each other rights to use Antenna Audio.
• AMICO to draft agreement for Board members to sign.

User Guidelines

• How to cite a work of art (for the public web site)
• How to cite an AMICO catalog entry
  Action: See discussion online.
• Model Summary of License Terms for "Click through" use
  on Public Site or as (PDF)
• Moral Rights of Artists and Adaptations
  Action: Guideline to draft

Common Reproduction Request Form

• Develop common form to facilitate users' requests for further rights
  Action: Form Completed and Launched. Review results and send comments to the Rights Committee List

University Testbed Project

Terms and Conditions Committee Page (on the University Testbed Site)
Unversity Testbed FAQ (on the University Testbed Site)

MEETINGS

• Wednesday-Friday, June 20-22, 2001, AMICO Members Meeting, Canada Aviation Museum
  • Committee Summary
  • Report on Entire Meeting (PDF)
    
    
• June 8-9, San Francisco California
• Committee Summary
• Report on Entire Meeting as a PDF file
  
  
• January 26th, 2000 at AAM Intellectual Property Seminar,
  Philadephia, PA

• June 5, 1999: Meeting Summary
• Committee Summary
• Report on Entire Meeting


• May 25, 1998: Meeting Summary

DOCUMENTS

AMICO Library Agreements

• AMICO Library University Agreement. June 1999 [.PDF]
• AMICO Library Museum Agreement. June 1999 [.PDF]
• AMICO Library University Agreement (Short Form). June 1999 [.PDF]
• AMICO School Agreement. June 1999 [.PDF]
• AMICO Public Library Agreement. June 1999 [.PDF]
• AMICO Unaffiliated Scholar Agreement. June 1999 [.PDF]
  
  
• Comparison of License Terms
  - outlines the terms of each AMICO agreement in a table so you can compare.

Draft Agreements are available for information only.

BACKGROUND

• Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment
  - June Besek - Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress, January, 2003 (.PDF)
• Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage - Simon Tanner (HEDS) and Marilyn Deegan (Oxford University), June, 2002
• When Image Is Everything - Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo - Instruction Librarian, Central Connecticut University. Searcher 10(1) (January 2002).
• Negotiating Stock Photo Prices, - a book by Jim and Cheryl Pickerel, 2001
• Press Release from UK's Museums Copyright Group regarding the "Bridgeman vs. Corel" case (.PDF)
• Guidelines for when Works pass into the Public Domain Lolly Gasaway, University of North Carolina, 2001
• Michael Shapiro, AMICO General Counsel, Workshop on Information Policies, Museums and the Web, March 1999 (.PDF)
• Report: "Selling/Acquiring Electronic Information: A Dialog about Best Practices" by Rachel Allen, 1998
• Guide to Rights and Reproduction at American Art Museums, Visual Resources Assoc. Special Bulletin No. 10, 1996.
• R.A.R.I.N. Isabella Stewart Gardner Rights and Reproduction Policy and Fee Survey, 1995

Other Organizations and their Rights Pages

Organization	Resource
Artists Rights Society	http://www.arsny.com
Association of Research Libraries	A Copyright FAQ by The Arts and Humanities Data Service and the Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) based in the U.K.
Association of Research Libraries	Checklist for Drafting Electronic Information Policies
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)	Web Page for Information Policy and Law Resources http://www.arlisna.org//web-law.html
CENDI	CENDI Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright <http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/publications/00-3copyright.html> CENDI is -- an interagency cooperative of scientific and technical information managers from 9 federal agencies and the national libraries
CONFU	Proposal for Educational Fair Use of Digital Images http://www.aam-us.org/fairuse.htm
Cornell University Legal Information Institute	Intellectual Property Information Pages http://wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html
European Copyright User Platform	http://www.kaapeli.fi/~eblida/ecup.html
LIBLICENSE	http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml
RARIN (AAM Reproductions and Rights Information Network)	http://www.panix.com/~squigle/rarin/01rcsite.html
SCRAN	http://www.scran.ac.uk Agreements Contributor to the SCRAN Database User of the SCRAN database
US Copyright Office	http://www.loc.gov/copyright

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