Internship Posting: Bridgeman Art Library
Posted: February 16, 2012 Filed under: Copyright, Digital Libraries, Opportunities: Internships, Visual Resources | Tags: art librarianship, bridgeman art library, digital image collections, internship Leave a comment »Bridgeman Art Library
About the Library
The Bridgeman Art Library is the world’s leading source of fine art images. Based in London, New York, Paris and Berlin, the Library represents thousands of museums, private collections and artists throughout the world in licensing their images for reproduction. Our clients worldwide include publishers, designers, advertising agencies and other image-using creative professionals.
About the Internship
We are offering a work experience placement for this summer as an Administrator at the New York office based in Manhattan. This role will involve supporting the Picture Research, Licensing, Marketing and Bridgeman Education departments. The successful intern will have varied responsibilities in a small office, providing a good opportunity for hands-on experience. Travel and some food expenses will be reimbursed.
Requirements
Any degree discipline is suitable, although an interest in Art, Art History or Marketing would be
preferred.
START DATE IMMEDIATELY : Monday-Friday, 9:30am – 5:30pm
Compensation: Lunch and a Metrocard
To apply:
Please send your resume and cover letter to
newyork@bridgemanart.com
Online workshop – Institutional Copyright Policies
Posted: November 19, 2009 Filed under: Copyright, Opportunities: Professional Development | Tags: Copyright, Professional Development, Workshops Comments OffVia ACRL College Libraries listserv. Note that this course is being taught by the legal counsel for RISD, so expect some discussion of copyright policy as it pertains to artwork and art-centric institutions. It is offered by the Center for Intellectual Property and can be taken as a stand-alone course or towards CIP certification.
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Institutional Copyright Policies
http://tinyurl.com/yzt6fmd
January 14-29, 2010
Instructor: Steven McDonald, J.D., General Counsel, Rhode Island School of Design
This online workshop will help you evaluate & answer some of the many questions that flow from the process of policy development within the arena of higher education. Who owns the work? And who can do what with the work? Is cyberspace a separate jurisdiction with a different set of rules than the physical world? Does the institution need a new policy and resource, or is a current policy sufficient and applicable-or adaptable-to the technologies, opportunities, and demands of academic life, both online and offline, in the digital era?
Goals for the course:
In this course, participants will:
1. Gain a practical understanding of basic copyright principles as they apply in and to higher education generally;
2. Learn how to evaluate institutional copyright policies and discuss the development and modification of those policies;
3. Understand the policies and technical steps your institution will need to implement in order to take full advantage of the opportunities that copyright law allows;
4. Gain a greater understanding of Internet law and policy;
5. Be encouraged to think about how copyright policies can serve the educational mission.
Advance your career. The new certification program Copyright Leadership in Higher Education requires that participants take one elective workshop in addition to the core course Foundations in Copyright Management and Leadership. This foundations course will be offered March 29 – May 21, 2010. Register for certification today and receive this elective workshop for free. Learn more at http://www.cipcommunity.org/certification.
Please see linked website for more information-
http://tinyurl.com/yzt6fmd
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“Orwellian” Kindle Deletions: Legitimate Copyright Kerfuffle, Giant Yawn, or Teachable Moment?
Posted: July 21, 2009 Filed under: Copyright, Discussion, Technology | Tags: Discussion 4 Comments »Last week, Amazon remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from users’ Kindles. As it turns out, the ebook publisher selling the editions didn’t actually own the rights for these works. As one could imagine, the blogospheric reaction to this event has been a mixture of smirking irony, outrage, confusion, and lots of I-told-you-so. (See the first link above for an excellent overview of the reaction.)
I had a quick succession of thoughts while reading about the deletions:
- ZOMG! Jeff Bezos is stealing your stuff!
- Um, you bought an unauthorized ebook from a shady publisher. Why are you so surprised?
- Wait, how were you supposed to know the publisher was shady?
- Huh, remote deletion wasn’t in the terms of service. But who reads those anyway?
- How can consumers avoid this in the future?
Any ideas for how to address this event with our users? It seems like a great opportunity to talk about DRM, reading legalese before you buy/agree, copyright terms, applying information literacy beyond books, etc.
And as librarians, how can we use news items like this to our advantage? What knowledge and services do we provide that could be particularly relevant in situations like this?
Copyright suit over Shepard Fairey’s Obama image
Posted: February 9, 2009 Filed under: Copyright, Images, News Comments OffAnother recent NYTimes article of interest:
Artist Sues The A.P. Over Obama Image
“In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous campaign poster image of President Obama.”
Who Owns This Image?
Posted: April 10, 2008 Filed under: Copyright, Opportunities: Events 1 Comment »Who Owns This Image?
Art, Access, and the Public Domain after Bridgeman v. Corel
Public Panel Discussion
Cosponsored by:
Art Law Committee, New York City Bar Association
College Art Association
ARTstor
Creative Commons
Panelists:
Dr. Theodore Feder, President, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society
Christopher Lyon, Executive Editor, Prestel Publishing
William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google
Hon. Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
Maureen Whalen, Associate General Counsel, J. Paul Getty Trust
Moderator:
Virginia Rutledge, Chair, Art Law Committee, New York City Bar
Association; Vice President and General Counsel, Creative Commons
When: Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Where: The Great Hall, New York City Bar Association, 42 W. 44th Street, New York City
Who owns the Mona Lisa? In Bridgeman Art Library Ltd. v. Corel Corp. (S.D.N.Y. 1999), Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled that exact photographic copies of two-dimensional public domain works of art are not copyrightable under U.S. law, because such images are not original. Yetnearly a decade after that decision, copyright in many such images continues to be asserted.
This program addresses questions currently debated across the worlds of art, publishing, and the law:
Should access to public domain artworks control uses of images of thoseworks? When and how should custodians of public domain artworks exercise control over reproductions of them? How does contract intersect with copyright in the control of image uses? Does the image permissions hurdle play a role in the decline of art publishing, or are the complaints of critics overwrought? What is the nature of the public domain with respect to works of art?
This program is free and open to the public; no reservation required. Seating is limited.
Copyright Boggles the Mind of a Superhero
Posted: April 2, 2008 Filed under: Copyright, Fun Comments OffYou Don’t Tug on Superman’s Copyright
April 2, 2013
In an unexpected move, a federal court today declared Superman a free agent. After decades of legal wrangling among DC Comics and the estates of Superman co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, a judge ruled that he would simply release the Man of Steel from any and all agreements, making him the first free agent in the high-stakes world of comic book superheroes.
Speaking from the Fortress of Limited Media Access in Nunavut, Canada, Superman said that he was “pleased” with the ruling.
“Frankly, all this legal nonsense was just giving me headaches,” said Superman, his deep, resonant voice rattling the shelves even over the speakerphone. “My supermind is as fast as a TRS-80 computer, but even I couldn’t keep track of all the rights everyone was claiming.”
more at Wired.com . . .
LOC’s Section 108 Study Group Copyright Report Released
Posted: April 1, 2008 Filed under: Copyright Comments Off“After nearly three years of intensive work, the independent Section 108
Study Group has issued its report and recommendations on exceptions to
copyright law to address how libraries, archives and museums deal with
copyrighted materials in fulfilling their missions in the digital
environment.”
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-063.html
The full report & the executive study are available @ http://www.section108.gov/
DIGITAL ART AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Posted: February 28, 2007 Filed under: Copyright, Images Comments Off“Nailing Down Bits: Digital Art and Intellectual Property” is the latestaddition to the Canadian Heritage Information Network’s (CHIN) IntellectualProperty Series. Authored by Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director atthe Berkeley Art Museum, this unique publication breaks new ground byexploring the legal issues surrounding the emerging field of digital art inNorth America.
CHIN offers open access to both the HTML and PDF versions of thepublication through the CHIN Web site’s Intellectual Property section at
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Intellectual_Property/index.html.
You can also listen to a short interview with the author in the CHIN Website’s Knowledge Exchange at
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Knowledge-Exchange/interviews-richard-rinehart.html
.An agency of the Department of Canadian Heritage, CHIN has for 35 yearsenabled Canada’s museums to engage Canadian and worldwide audiences throughthe use of innovative technologies.
To learn more about CHIN’s IntellectualProperty Series – a valuable resource for any heritage institution seekingto adequately protect and leverage the assets they hold in trust – visit
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/index.html.
Source:Canadian Heritage Information Network(819) 994-1200 or 1 800 520-2446 (from Canada and the U.S.) service@chin.gc.ca
Dark Days of DRM?
Posted: January 22, 2007 Filed under: Copyright, Technology 11 Comments »A recent article in Wired (“Public Libraries, Private DRM” – go here) talks briefly about the OverDrive Media Console and its lack of multi-platform support (e.g. iPods).
It will be interesting to see the effects of Digital Rights Management (DRM) within art libraries. Libraries who subscribe to ARTstor are quite familiar with the limitations of ARTstor’s proprietary image viewer (especially in those cases where other, more flexible alternatives are available).
As convenience, disagregation, and broadband connections increase within our information-based society, the video collections of some art libraries may be replaced with on-demand video (hey, I’d love to get Art21 electronically delivered to my house with a couple of clicks). Yet, if the information is not made convenient and simple to obtain, will our patrons bother? Should we expect them to?
Digital Copyright Act Exemptions
Posted: November 28, 2006 Filed under: Copyright, News Comments Off from the Chronicle for Higher Education (Tuesday, November 28, 2006). . .
Professors and Librarians Win Narrow Exemptions to Rules in Digital Copyright Act
The U.S. Copyright Office has issued a handful of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that may benefit media professors, archivists, and other academics. Under certain circumstances, they will now be allowed to circumvent access-control technologies on various electronic media.
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