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

Mon Jun 6 20:54:41 UTC 2005

Maybe some of the museums need to have their fingers slapped as happened 
in  http://www.eff.org/legal/ISP_liability/OPG_v_Diebold/

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Fred Bauder wrote:

> 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.
>