----------------------------Original message---------------------------- -This announcement is being posted to several locations. -Kindly excuse the inevitable duplications. This note serves to announce that MAX ANDERSON's talk on the AMICO project, the final paper from the TOWN MEETING on COPYRIGHT and FAIR USE held at the College Art Association meeting in Toronto (February 1998), is now available on the Web. AMICO, the Art Museum Image Consortium, is a program developed by a number of cooperating museums in which representative and significant museum images are pooled into a common electronic database and site-licensed to interested educational institutions. Up to the Toronto Town Meeting, the debate on the utility of AMICO, has focused on issues pertaining to the effect and meaning of site-licensing, on the relationships between traditional image collections and those created for use by teaching and research institutions by outside agencies. In addition, because licensed images would seem to preclude their use in the US under a claim of Fair Use, the traditional scholarly prerogative of Fair Use itself has been brought into question. For many readers interested in AMICO, Max Anderson's paper may come as something of a surprise. In this paper, for the first time in this reader's memory, AMICO's mission is described as providing unique documentary tools to meet the needs of the scholarly research communities and as providing a needed visual resources of consistent quality for scholarly workers. The author goes further, however, and suggests that the fusion of electronic images and electronic information culled from disparate collections participating in AMICO may induce a synergy that has benefits beyond those possible when traditional media are used. All who are interested in scholarly electronic services, in pictorial delivery systems, and in copyright issues as they apply to on-line services, should glance through this article. For a detailed program of the Toronto Town Meeting and for and speakers' statements see http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm For Max Anderson's paper see: http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/ANDERSON.htm note: When the above paper was written, Max Anderson was director of the Art Gallery of Ontario; as of this writing, he has assumed directorship of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Robert Baron [log in to unmask] http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/index.htm ============================================= CAA/Toronto Town Meeting on Copyright: 2/26/98 http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm ============================================= Robert A. Baron mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/