RIGHTS COMMITTEE - Tasks for Library Year 2001
Goal: Define AMICO's Licensing Frameworks

TO DO (as of the AMICO Annual Meeting, June 2000)
Artists and Estates	clarify implementation of the ARS agreement develop a model AMICO artist's request and agreement continue to pursue agreements with other rights societies 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

Artists Rights Request Letter

• Draft letter for comment
  Action: Send in your comments. See online discussion
• 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

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

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: See project outline and status

University Testbed Project

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

MEETINGS

• 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

• Press Release from UK's Museums Copyright Group regarding the "Bridgeman vs. Corel" case (.PDF)
• Guidelines for when Works pass into the Public Domain
• 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

Other Organizations and their Rights Pages

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

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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