Notes from What Are We To Do About Our Lack of Access to Images of Copyright-Protected Contemporary Art?

What are we going to do about copyrighted images of contemporary art?
Amy Ballmer on CUNY: we need legal help; librarians and VR professionals are not always copyright experts
Copy Fraud – Christine Sundt mentioned as a great resource for copyright info; doesn’t apply to contemporary art but still relevant; issues is more about contracts and not copyright – most scholarly use is covered under the law, it’s the permissions culture that is getting in the way
Fair Use best practices by Christine Sundt: darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/bestpractices.htm
Mentioning both CAA copyright best practices: www.collegeart.org/news/2014/01/29/caa-publishes-fair-use-issues-report/
and VRA copyright best practices: www.vraweb.org/organization/pdf/VRAFairUseGuidelinesFinal.pdf
-One of the main points being that if you’re using images in teaching you can use them
-As far as dissertations are concerned, it is an academic requirement and not a publication, so image use should be considered under fair use
Against Intellectual Monopoly, a book on controlled and managed intellectual property
How much of this is self-censorship? How much are academics and librarians simply afraid of litigation?
Volunteer Lawyers for the Creative Arts: www.vlany.org/

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