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Thanks to all who have responded so far. I was remiss in not mentioning that the textbook in questions, The Art of Seeing, does not have an accompanying CD of images produced by the publisher. We have put in a request to the publisher, but they have not gotten back to us yet. Piper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fry, P. Eileen" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:18 am Subject: RE: [ARLIS-L] image copyright question To: Piper Martin <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] > While almost all of us in the academic image world have to balance > teaching needs with fair use and vendor rights, the specific case you > bring up is one that should no longer be such a problem. For > decades, we > did have to slavishly produce slides of every single image, map, > graph,and timeline in the standard art history and art appreciation > surveytexts to support classroom teaching. It was a huge, > expensive chore, > due to the frequent new editions, but an absolutely essential one. > > Now, however, many publishers of basic art history textbooks supply > faculty who adopt their textbooks with complete sets of images, and > generic PowerPoints, on CDs for teaching purposes. Unless the > department has adopted a more obscure textbook, there is no longer a > need for a slide collection or VRC to provide this service. Faculty > should contact their publisher's representatives and ask for these > CDs. > What you should be doing, instead, is investing in high-quality > commercial digital image sets that can be delivered to the entire > campusto provide additional images for the surveys and to support a > wide range > of other disciplines. Many of our digital vendors offer sets for any > number of survey texts. > > Eileen Fry > Indiana University > > -----Original Message----- > From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:ARLIS- > [log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Piper Martin > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:40 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [ARLIS-L] image copyright question > > Hello, > > I am new to this list, so I hope I am asking an appropriate > question. I > work at a university library as the liaison to the art & art history > department. We have a new digital services department, which will > eventually be heading up our institutional repository, but in the > meantime they are involved in various scanning projects for faculty > members and units on campus. We were approached by the person who > worksin the art department's slide library over in the arts > building to have > all of the images in an introductory art history textbook scanned and > put on individual CDs for each faculty member who teaches the class > using this textbook. Both I and the head of digital services (an > archivist by training) were quite uncomfortable with this request, and > we told the the person from the slide library that we did not think > thiswould be OK as far as copyright was concerned. She informed us > that she > made slides from all the images in the textbook; additionally, the art > history f > aculty members were surprised and rather dismayed by our attitude-- > theyacted like we were paranoid. We want to have good relations > with the > department, but we don't want to participate in a potentially > dangerousproject. We have searched our databases and the free > internet, but we > have not been able to come up with any helpful information. Has > anyoneon this list encountered a similar situation? Many thanks in > advance. > Piper Martin > > __________________________________________________________________ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] > For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: > http://www.arlisna.org/join.html > Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, > etc) to [log in to unmask] > ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html > Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: > [log in to unmask] > __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]