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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE, INTERNET:david=40ninch.org
To: Multiple recipients of list, INTERNET:ninch-announce=40ninch.org
Date: 6/22/99 11:21 AM
RE: DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCEMENTS
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 22, 1999
ACADEMIC IMAGE EXCHANGE ANNOUNCED
Joint Project of College Art Association and Digital Library Federation
ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) AND
ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS) SIGN AGREEMENT
Copyrighted Works by ARS Artists to be Included in AMICO Library
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Two important, complementary announcements have recently been made
concerning the distribution of digital art-related images for education
purposes. The College Art Association and the Digital Library Federation
have announced the Academic Image Exchange to distribute images of art and
architectural works by scholar-photographers who produce =22high quality
color photographs to aid their own teaching and research.=22 The Image
Exchange will produce a pool of art historical images for all to use for
educational purposes.
Meanwhile the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), building a high-quality,
metadata rich, multimedia digital library of art museum images for
licensing, has announced an important agreement with the Artists Rights
Society. The agreement will enable AMICO to include in its library digital
images of copyrighted works of art by artists and estates represented by
the ARS, where the works may be consulted =22with other multimedia
documentation (extended texts and other materials) created by AMICO Member
Museums.=22
David Green
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ACADEMIC IMAGE EXCHANGE ANNOUNCED
Joint Project of College Art Association and Digital Library Federation
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=3EFrom: =22Robert A. Baron=22 =3Crabaron=40PIPELINE.COM=3E
=3ESubject: ACADEMIC IMAGE EXCHANGE announced
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ACADEMIC IMAGE EXCHANGE
In response to a recent discussion that appeared on CAAH (the Consortium of
Art and Architectural Historians discussion list), I am pleased to announce
that the College Art Association (http://www.collegeart.org) and the
Digital Library Federation (http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm) are
sponsoring the development of the Academic Image Exchange.
In service to the teaching and practice of the history of art and related
disciplines, the Academic Image Exchange (AIE) intends to offer students,
teachers and the general public =22curriculum-based=22 sets of screen-sized
digital images for their free and unrestricted educational non-profit use.
(Higher, projectable resolutions will also be available.)
First to be introduced will be a selection of images that satisfies a
significant portion of the digital image requirements of most college and
university level introductory courses in art history. The AIE will provide
several kinds of exchange facilities:
-- for faculty to create and advertise want lists of images for teaching
-- for scholars, museums, libraries and photographers for non-profit
educational use to contribute from the public domain or provide under
license high quality images sufficient for classroom projection
-- for visual resource specialists to participate in shared cataloging of
the images and the works they represent
-- for faculty, students, and others to develop a variety of scholarly
products for learning environments, such as distance learning, and for
publication.
Images offered through the AIE will be chosen on the basis of their
proximity to traditional course selections. An on-line concordance will
link images to standard art history survey books. This concordance-index
will thus serve as one of the entry-points to the image database, allowing
teachers and students access to a wider variety of images than is available
in any single textbook. All AIE offerings will be reviewed by an
independent panel of art historians. This panel will select images based on
their overall quality and on their utility for teaching.
The key to the present and future success of the Image Exchange will be its
ability to enlist the cooperation and advocacy of the community of
scholar-photographers who produce high quality color photographs to aid
their own teaching and research. By using the facilities of the internet to
pool this vast resource, we will have an opportunity to create a
much-needed public database of art historical images for all to use for
educational purposes.
The College Art Association and the Digital Library Federation are
currently focused on the creation of a prototype of the Academic Image
Exchange. The AIE development team is composed of art librarians, art and
architectural historians, visual resources curators, photographers,
specialists in digital imagery and in systems design. Members and staff of
the Society of Architectural Historians, the College Art Association, the
Digital Library Federation, and the faculty of the Imaging Systems
Laboratory of Carnegie Mellon University are contributing to the AIE
prototype development effort.
I am serving as Project Manager for the AIE. Our plan is to demonstrate a
prototype program and a selection of images at the upcoming New York City
meeting of the College Art Association in February 2000.
We expect to consult a variety of groups and interested parties during the
course of the prototype development. Please watch this list for updates and
further announcements about the project.
Robert Baron
Project Manager
Academic Image Exchange
A joint development of the College Art Association and the
Digital Library Federation
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ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) AND
ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS) SIGN AGREEMENT
Copyrighted Works by ARS Artists to be Included in AMICO Library
=3EDate: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:55:55 -0400
=3ETo: David Green =3Cdavid=40cni.org=3E
=3EFrom: =22J. Trant=22 =3Cjtrant=40amico.org=3E
=3ESubject: AMICO and ARS reach important agreement
AMICO Press Release
June 1, 1999
Art Museum Image Consortium and the Artists Rights Society
Reach Important Agreement
AMICO Headquarters=3B Pittsburgh, PA
Contemporary and Modern art is now available for education=21 The Art
Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and the Artists Rights Society (ARS) are
delighted to announce they have reached an agreement to ensure that 20th
century art will be available in the AMICO Library, a subscription-based
resource for use in education, research, and teaching. ARS has granted
AMICO a non-exclusive, North American license to include digital images of
copyrighted works of art by artists and estates represented by the Artists
Rights Society in the AMICO Library, where these works may be consulted
with other multimedia documentation (extended texts and other materials)
created by AMICO Member Museums. In return for the use of these
copyrighted works of art, AMICO will share a proportionate royalty based on
subscription income with ARS.
=22We've broken a log-jam,=22 said Jennifer Trant, Executive Director
of AMICO. =22With this agreement the AMICO Library can fully represent the
modern and contemporary works held by AMICO Members without the added
burden of separate rights clearance,=22 Ms. Trant continued. =22Those AMICO
Members whose collections are predominately comprised of works from these
periods, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and the
Mus=E9e d'art contemporain de Montr=E9al, will certainly benefit from our
relationship with ARS. This agreement eases the process for everyone
involved.=22
Theodore Feder, President of the Artists Rights Society, also felt
the agreement was =22a win-win. Contemporary artists' work will be much =
more
available for educational purposes, while ensuring their appropriate use
under an educational license agreement.=22 He was pleased that ARS was part
of the AMICO concept saying that =22the Consortium really sets the standard
for dissemination of digital images of works of art in a learning =
setting.=22
AMICO Members also welcomed the enhanced coordination this ARS and AMICO
agreement will provide. =22We can really participate in the AMICO Library to
our full potential,=22 stated Director of the San Diego Museum of
Contemporary Art, Hugh Davies. Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Whitney
Museum of American Art, observed, =22as the arts community navigates through
the uncertain waters of copyright legislation in a wired world, it is very
exciting to have brought two critical constituencies together in service of
education: our major modern and contemporary artists and our leading art
museums. Thanks to the agreement with ARS, AMICO can now aspire to present
the fullest possible dimensions of contemporary art.=22
In the end, it's the subscribers to the AMICO Library who will benefit the
most from this agreement. Contemporary art will be included in the AMICO
Library without any change in the subscription fees. And individual
teachers and students will not have to worry about the time consuming and
uncertain process of obtaining copyright clearances. Over time,
collaborations such as these will ensure that the AMICO Library grows in
breadth and depth, to become a resource used in research, teaching and
learning in all arts and humanities disciplines.
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit association of
art-collecting institutions working together to enable educational use of
their digital documentation. The AMICO Library is a growing collection of
digital multimedia (now text and image and over time also sound and moving
image), compiled by AMICO Members and made available under license for
educational use. Subscriptions to the AMICO Library are available beginning
July 1, 1999, through not-for-profit distributors such as the Research
Libraries Group. Educational institutions, universities, public libraries,
and primary through secondary schools will have access to over 50,000 works
of art.
Founded in October 1997, as a program of the Association of Art Museum
Directors Educational Foundation, Inc., AMICO was separately incorporated
as an independent non-profit corporation in June of 1998, ending its direct
connection with the AAMD. The Consortium is today made up of 28 of the
major art collections in North America and is regularly adding new Members.
If you are interested in becoming an AMICO Member or Subscriber, please
contact Jennifer Trant, Executive Director =3Cjtrant=40amico.org=3E. Full =
details
about AMICO and its activities can be found on its web site at
http://www.amico.org
Artists Rights Society (ARS) was appointed in 1986, by the French copyright
societies for visual artists to represent the copyright and permissions
interests of their members within the United States. Since then, ARS has
signed reciprocal contracts with more than twenty other visual artists
rights organizations worldwide. The membership lists of these organizations
include the majority of artists active in this century, including Georges
Braque, Joseph Beuys, Constantin Brancusi, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali,
Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, John Heartfield, Wassily Kandinsky,
Fernand L=E9ger, Man Ray, Joan Mir=F3, and Edvard Munch. In addition, our
direct European adherents include the estates of Pablo Picasso (through the
Picasso Administration ), Henri Matisse (through the Succession Matisse),
and Ren=E9 Magritte. ARS also acts on behalf of American artists and =
actively
lobbies state and federal legislatures for stronger and more effective
artist's rights laws.
Contact Information:
AMICO
Jennifer Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium
2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Phone (412) 422 8533
Fax (412) 422 8594
Email: jtrant=40amico.org
http://www.amico.org
ARS
Theodore Feder
President
Artists Rights Society
65 Bleecker Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 420-9160
Fax: (212) 420-9286
Email: feder=40arsny.com
http://www.arsny.com
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J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D
Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA
Art Museum Image Consortium
http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533
jtrant=40amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594
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