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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hi Image Fraternity, I have been following this debate with avid interest here in Australia, and would still be interested in reading comments on the list. I feel that these models might influence our situation here, and therefore feel very much involved. I do know that multimedia companies sometimes spend millions of dollars on copyright searches and the administrative costs they generate, something beyond our means. They are generating profits from a product, a business we are not in. I still feel that it is a new medium that is creating a fear of the unknown. I personally still want to purchase a slide and then have the right to digitise it, and place it on a LAN. It is a fair expense to do so and we should not be penalised for making images more accessible and visible for research in an educational setting to clients, with impossible fees and overheads...as in this economic climate we are certainly not the goose laying golden eggs. These fees will simply stop projects. It is hard enough to make left brained people appreciate the value of images anyway! And a lot of them are on the budget committees. I have opposing arguments from people in this camp who cannot understand the fuss made about a silly little slide, when money could be spent on scientific lazers, etc. Also when they cannot subject access the item they simply become grumpy and try to cut your slide budget. Therefore if image marketers make this difficult for us they are in a way curtailing their own market place, especially as art colleges have to fend for funding within a much larger University heirarchy which may see art as the icing on the cake ( not the interpretive mirror of a culture ). Digital images are still too expensive to buy direct ( twice the price of a slide at least). Is the Getty Foundation lobbying for you? Keep up the good fight! Jennifer QCA >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >I have been asked to gather comments and concerns about the recent CONFU >guidelines from the point of view of the Visual Resources Division. I will >then prepare a statement for presentation to the ARLIS board when it meets >in San Antonio, August 10-11. I would be most grateful to hear from anyone >with comments on the draft of the CONFU guidelines before the end of this >week. Please respond to me off-list at: [log in to unmask] > >Thanks. > >Martha R. Mahard >Curator, Visual Collections >Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library >Fogg Museum, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 >617-495-3376 / [log in to unmask] ****************************************************************************** Views expressed above are personal, and are not necessarily the policy of Griffith University. ****************************************************************************** Jennifer Brasher ` ` ` ` EMAIL: [log in to unmask] Art Librarian `` ` ` VOICE: +61 (07) 3875 3132 ` ` `FAX: +61 (07) 3875 3133 SNAIL MAIL ` ` ` ` Queensland College of Art Library ` ` ` ` Griffith University `````` Clearview Terrace ``*`* Morningside Campus * PO Box 84 Morningside Brisbane Queensland 4170 Australia ****************************************************************************** "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." Oscar Wilde " The Critic as Artist. Pt ii." ******************************************************************************