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 survey texts 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 campus to 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:[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 works in 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 this would 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--they acted like we were paranoid. We want to have good relations with the department, but we don't want to participate in a potentially dangerous project. We have searched our databases and the free internet, but we have not been able to come up with any helpful information. Has anyone on 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]