[Foundation-l] [Ticket#: 126217-FW] Emily Dickinson poems

Sun Jun 5 13:58:43 UTC 2005

The law is not unclear, nor is the fact that it is considered ethical  
to seek to intimidate by adopting a posture which although it has  
little, or even no support in law, may yet succeed in influencing  
other's behavior.

Fred

On Jun 4, 2005, at 11:41 PM, Sj wrote:

> At the second "Signal or Noise" conference, a museum curator stated
> explicitly that many museums consider their images of their artwork to
> be copyrightable and copyrighted; they sell postcards, posters, etc of
> those images. They spend money curating the works of art, and
> commissioning the photos, and want to be able to recoup that.  (I am
> more or less repeating verbatim arguments I heard).
>
> So I do not think these are random museums breaking from tradition, or
> overeager law departments stretching to expand their control beyond
> current limits; perhaps the precedent here is unclear, or unclear to a
> significant subset of museums and their lawyers.
>
> SJ
>
> On 6/4/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
>> Soufron wrote:
>>
>>>> Don't you folks feel like we're getting more and more stuff like  
>>>> this
>>>> these days ?
>>>>
>>
>> Yes, I think we are.
>>
>> The kind of case that I personally find most annoying are claims from
>> museums where the art underlying the photo has clearly been in the
>> public domain for a very long time.  If I get one more like that, I'm
>> going to go on a rampage and make a lot of noise about it.
>>
>> --Jimbo
>>
>
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