[1] From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com> (63)
Subject: AMICO Documents Available
[2] From: David Green <david@cni.org> (76)
Subject: WRITERS LOSE COPYRIGHT CASE
[3] From: David Green <david@cni.org> (104)
Subject: AMICO; Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
[4] From: David Green <david@cni.org> (71)
Subject: Scanning Conference
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:59:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com>
Subject: AMICO Documents Available
ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE
Please excuse any duplication ...
The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) is founding the Art Museum
Image Consortium (AMICO). The members of this new not-for-profit
organization will build a shared library of digital documentation of
their collections for licensing and distribution to the educational community.
A formal invitation to form the Consortium was issued by Hugh Davies,
President of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) on August 7,
1997. Founding Members of AMICO are invited to attend the Consortium's
inaugural meeting, September 22-23, 1997 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The founding of AMICO follows a number of planning meetings, where
over 70 representatives from art museums in the United States and
Canada defined the terms of their collaboration. Together these
museums will build a shared library of digital documentation of their
collections for licensing and distribution to the educational community.
AMICO will build a collective Library, comprised of multimedia works
(at least text and image) documenting the collections of its member
museums. Products derived from that Library, which may or may not include
value-added indexing and retrieval tools, will be offered to different
markets under specific licenses and through a number of distribution
channels
A set of agreements reflecting this consensus were drafted by Archives &
Museum Informatics, who acted as consultants and facilitators
throughout the AMICO planning process. These include frameworks for
organizing the Consortium, governing its strategic planning, developing a
standards-based approach to the distribution of the AMICO Library, and
defining its products and licenses. Key among these are the draft
University and Museum licenses, that outline the terms under which the
library will be offered to these communities. Next on the licensing agenda
is the drafting of K-12 educational and public library licenses, as the
museums involved have active educational programs that are already
reaching these communities. This work will continue in tandem with plans
for a testbed distribution of a significant Library of digital
documentation to a limited number of universities in the Fall of 1998.
AMICO's framework documents are now available for public comment at
http://www.amn.org/AMICO
Questions regarding AMICO can be directed to:
Maxwell Anderson
Liaison for Information Technology
Association of Art Museum Directors
max_anderson@ago.net
or
Jennifer Trant or David Bearman
Archives & Museum Informatics
jtrant@archimuse.com or dbear@archimuse.com
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:36:40 -0400
From: David Green <david@cni.org>
Subject: WRITERS LOSE COPYRIGHT CASE
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
August 14, 1997
An extremely important and telling piece of news is contained in the
following News Release from the National Writers Union. The NWU president,
Jonathan Tasini, lost a recent court case against several major publishers
and electronic database operators. The claim was that the publishers were
commercially re-distributing previously published writers' works on their
electronic outlets without the permission of the writers and without
compensating them. The publishers involved are: The New York Times,
Newsday, Sports Illustrated, Lexis/Nexis and the UMI Company.
The NWU is considering both an appeal and legislative action to counter
this court decision.
David Green
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NEWS RELEASE
August 13, 1997
Contact: Ann Filloramo or Tisha Davis-Memminger Phone: (212) 254-0279
WRITERS CONSIDER APPEAL, LEGISLATIVE ACTION IN WAKE OF COPYRIGHT LAWSUIT
DECISION
>National Writers Union (NWU) president Jonathan Tasini today said that the
>plaintiffs in a federal copyright suit against several major publishers
>and electronic database operators were studying what appear to be strong
>grounds for appeal of the judge's decision in favor of the defendants.
>Tasini, the lead plaintiff in the widely discussed case, *Tasini et al. v.
>The New York Times et al.*, said the NWU was also studying whether
>legislative action might be more appropriate to redress the abuses of
>writers' rights in the current practices of the emerging digital
>publishing industry.
>In her decision, Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. District Court for the
>Southern District of New York ruled that *The New York Times*, *Newsday*,
>*Sports Illustrated*, Lexis/Nexis and the UMI Company had not infringed
>the rights of freelance writers under the Copyright Act. The practice in
>dispute involves the commercial redistribution of previously published
>articles without the permission of the writers and without compensating
>them.
>"The fight for a fair share continues," Tasini said. "When
>multimillion-dollar media companies make a dollar from the sweat of their
>contributors' brows, those creators deserve to share in the profits. That
>is what copyright is all about -- preserving independent, vital and
>diverse voices in American journalism and American culture."
>Tasini added that an analysis of the decision shows that the plaintiffs
>did prevail on several of their most important assertions. "We are pleased
>that Judge Sotomayor rejected the publishers' disingenuous claims that the
>writers had explicitly transferred our rights to our work," he said. "We
>did no such thing, and we continue to advise freelancers to hold on to
>their rights unless they are paid a fair amount to license them."
>In addition, the NWU president noted, "The judge seems to throw the ball
>to Congress, which she says is free to revise Section 201(c) of the
>Copyright Act, around which much of the lawsuit revolved. The community of
>freelance writers, photographers and graphic artists can now rise to that
>challenge and make their legislators pay attention to their rights as well
>as to the public's interest in new media technologies."
>In the wake of the decision and the assault on writers' rights by the
>issuing of all-rights contracts, Tasini called on President Clinton to
>establish a blue-ribbon presidential commission to study the condition of
>writers and their disappearing livelihood and all creators throughout the
>country. Tasini said: "In his State of the Union address this year, the
>president praised writers as an integral part of our society. He must now
>act decisively to insure that we survive to fulfill our societal mission."
>
>The National Writers Union, Local 1981 of United Auto Workers, represents
>4,600 freelance journalists, book authors, technical writers and others.
>On behalf of the NWU, president Tasini thanked Steve Yokich, President of
>the United Auto Workers, for its financial support of the lawsuit.
># # #
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>National Office West National Office East
>337 - 17th Street, Suite 101 113 University Place, 6th Floor
>Oakland, CA 94612 New York, NY 10003
>Phone: (510) 839-0110 Phone: (212) 254-0279
>Fax: (510) 839-6097 Fax: (212) 254-0673
>email: <nwu@nwu.org> email: <nwu@nwu.org>
>UAW LOCAL 1981 / AFL-CIO
>WORLD WIDE WEB: <http://www.nwu.org/nwu/>
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:57:14 -0400
From: David Green <david@cni.org>
Subject: AMICO; Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
August 14, 1997
CANADIAN INITIATIVE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES
ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) TO BE FORMALLY INAUGURATED
The following two announcements are of new consortia that have recently
been formed. The first is the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
(CIDL), created to foster greater coordination of Canadian digital library
resources. The second is the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), which
after many months of detailed planning, is being formally inaugurated this
September. AMICO will build a shared library of digital images and
documentation of art museums' collections for licensing and distribution to
the educational community.
David Green
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Announcing the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
A new alliance of Canadian libraries interested in improving communication
and coordination in the development of Canadian digital library resources
has been formed. The Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL) will
provide a forum for:
*sharing information and experience related to digital libraries,
*discussing best practices in areas such as digitization, metadata,
encoding, rights management,
etc.,
*defining roles and responsibilities for long-term archiving of Canadian
digital resources,
*raising awareness of Canadian digital library activities both in Canada
and internationally,
*and discussing many other issues including training, funding,
interoperability, public access, etc.
CIDL will be directed by a steering committee elected in the Fall 1997 from
member libraries, and there will be subgroups on specific issues. CIDL is
open to all Canadian libraries.
For more information on CIDL--its mandate, objectives, proposed activities,
how to become a member, etc.--and to find some other useful information on
digital library development, please see our site at
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cidl/
Gwynneth Evans
Director-General, National and International Programs
National Library of Canada
gwynneth.evans@nlc-bnc.ca
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ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE
[See Jennifer Trant's message, above]
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:50:05 -0400
From: David Green <david@cni.org>
Subject: Scanning Conference
NINCH ANNOUNCMENT
August 14, 1997
SCHOOL FOR SCANNING:
Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections
November 3-5, 1997
New York Academy of Medicine, NYC
The Northeast Document Conservation Center presents the following
conference: School for Scanning: Issues of Preservation and Access for
Paper-Based Collections. November 3-5, 1997; At the New York Academy of
Medicine, 1216 5th Ave. (at 103rd St.), NYC
What is the School for Scanning? A seminar that will take the mystery out
of digital technology while training participants in:
* The Basics of Digital Technology;
* File Formats; Content Selection for Digitization;
* Legal Issues;
* Text and Image Scanning;
* Quality Control and Costs;
* Metadata;
* Digital Preservation;
* World Wide Web Applications;
* CD-ROM Publications.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
If you are an archivist, curator, interpreter, librarian, historic
preservation specialist, registrar, or other cultural or natural resource
manager dealing with paper-based collections, you will be interested in
attending the School for Scanning. No prior knowledge of digital media is
required.
WHO ARE THE FACULTY?
Steve Dalton, NEDCC; Howard Besser, University of California at Berkeley;
Steve Chapman, Harvard University; Paul Conway, Yale University Library;
Richard Ekman, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Franziska Frey, Image
Permanence Institute; Janet Gertz, Columbia University; Kevin Guthrie,
JSTOR; Paul Handly, National Park Service; Melissa Smith Levine, Library of
Congress; Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Roy
Rosenzweig, George Mason University; Maxine Sitts, Commission on
Preservation and Access; Roy Tennant, University of California at Berkeley;
Diane van der Reyden, Conservation Analytical Laboratory; Diane Vogt-O
Connor, National Park Service; and Stuart Weibel,
OCLC.
WHAT DOES THE CONFERENCE COST?
The cost of the seminar is $255 including lunches. All participants will
also be responsible for all their travel and lodging costs. The number of
participants is limited and registration applications will be accepted on a
first-come-first-served basis. The deadline to register is October 17,
1997.
For more information about NEDCC and a calendar of workshops and seminars,
visit NEDCC s homepage at <http://www.nedcc.org>. For more information or
to request a flier with a registration form, contact Gay Tracy, Northeast
Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA
01810-1494; 508 470-1010; <tracy@nedcc.org>.
Gay S. Tracy
Public Relations Coordinator
Northeast Document Conservation Center
100 Brickstone Square
Andover MA 01810-1494
Tel 508 470-1010
Fax 508 475-6021
<tracy@nedcc.org>
Web site: http://www.nedcc.org
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