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Max et al,

I attended this meeting this past Friday downtown (LA).  It was in
conjunction with the Museums and the Web conference that had taken place
there earlier in the week.  This was primarily a report to us of a
discussion the day prior with representatives from numerous museums and
other institutions concerning the proposal for AMICO (as you describe
below).  They have a detailed site liscencing agreement in draft form, which
they described to us.  It seems that the focus of and the audience for this
project and this particular licensing agreement are academic institutions.
 They have not considered "purchase of rights" for other than acadmic
institutions in the initial proposal.

I do not subscribe to VRA-L, so I don't know what he/she has reported about
the meeting.  I will, of course be discussing it at the conference board
meetings.   If someone can forward the VRA posting to me, I will be happy to
make the comparisons you mentioned on this forum.

Deborah Barlow Smedstad
ARLIS/NA Western Regional Representative
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST
To: Multiple recipients of list ARLIS-L
Subject: AMICO initiative
Date: Thursday, March 27, 1997 12:25PM

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Colleagues,

I've been reading on VRA-L an instructive discussion of the AMICO
initiative, which involves planning on the part of the Assoc. of Art Museum
Directors to support, via generously defined site licensing protocols,
academic access to digital versions of member museum collections.  This
seems noteworthy.

For a description of this initiative see:
http://www.amn.org/AMNhtml/AMNhome.htm

This description suggests that an ARLIS/NA representative was present at
the recent briefing for non-profit organizations, sponsored by the Getty.

Have we heard from the ARLIS/NA rep about this development?  I'm sorry if
I've missed such an announcement.  A VRA member has recently posted his
report on this meeting, and it would be instructive to compare his account
with our own representative's description

Max Marmor