WEB RESOURCES RELATED TO DIGITAL IMAGING & COPYRIGHT

compiled by Jeanette C. Mills, April 2002

last updated 29 October 2007

DIGITAL IMAGING

Besser, Howard – Introduction to Imaging, Revised Edition (Getty Bookstore)

http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/titles/imagingrev.html

Full text available online

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/introimages/

Western States -- Digital Imaging Best Practices

http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/scanning/documents/wsdibp_v1.pdf

Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) – Creating and Managing Digital Content

http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Digital_Content/index.html

Wayne Fulton – A Few Scanning Tips

http://www.scantips.com/

COPYRIGHT

IUPUI – Copyright Management Center

http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/

Includes:  Checklist for Fair Use

http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/checklist.htm

Georgia Harper – Copyright Crash Course

http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm

Includes:  Copyright & Image Management

http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/image.htm

Peter Hirtle -- Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm

Cornell Legal Information Institute – Copyright: An Overview

Includes link in first line to full text of the copyright code

http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html

Visual Resources Association – Intellectual Property Rights Committee

http://www.vraweb.org/organization/committees/ipr/index.html

Art Libraries Society of North America -- Public Policy Committee -- Copyright

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/arlis/copyright.htm

Society of American Archivists – Visual Materials Section

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/SAA/VMhome.html

Includes:  Web Site Images Policies and Guidelines

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/SAA/webimages.html

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) Copyright Town Meetings

http://www.ninch.org/copyright/

Christine L. Sundt – Copyright & Art Issues

http://www.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/

Artists Rights Society

http://www.arsny.com/

Yale University Library – LIBLICENSE: Licensing Digital Information

http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/

MUSEUM SPECIFIC

Museum Computer Network (MCN)

http://www.mcn.edu/

MCN has several Special Interest Groups (SIGs); two may be of particular interest:

Intellectual Property

http://www.mcn.edu/ipsig

Digital Media

http://www.mcn.edu/dmsig

The Rights and Reproduction Information Network (RARIN) – a taskforce of the Registrars Committee, which is a Standing Professional Committee of the American Association of Museums

http://www.panix.com/~squigle/rarin/01rcsite.html

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