Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 338.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:55:21 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Subject: AMICO and VAGA sign rights agreement
>> From: "J. Trant - Executive Director" <jtrant@amico.org>
AMICO Press Release
October 24, 2001
AMICO and VAGA Reach Rights Agreement to Further Expand
Contemporary and Modern Art in The AMICO Library (TM)
AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA
The Art Museum Image Consortium, Inc. (AMICO) and the Visual Artists and
Galleries Association, Inc. (VAGA) have reached a landmark agreement that
will expand the coverage of contemporary and modern art in the leading
digital library of works of art available for educational use. In this
agreement, VA= GA has granted AMICO a non-exclusive, worldwide license to
include digital imag= es of copyrighted works of art by artists and estates
represented by VAGA and i= ts affiliated rights societies in The AMICO
Library where they can be studied along with multimedia documentation of
other works of art in the collections= of AMICO member museums. In return,
AMICO will make royalty payments to the artists through VAGA.
"This is an additional cornerstone in the foundation that AMICO is
establishing to make The AMICO Library the educational provider of works of
= art from the 20th century and beyond in digital form,=94 said Jennifer
Trant, Executive Director of AMICO. "AMICO members are delighted to now
contribute some of the most recognized works in their collections without
the added bur= den of separate rights clearance,". Ms. Trant
continued. Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art,
observed, "as 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 toget= her in service of education: our major
modern and contemporary artists and our leading art museums."
Robert Panzer, Executive Director of VAGA, also considered the agreement
noteworthy. "As a representative and advocate for VAGA artists=92 rights
we must balance needs of access and dissemination with protection and
copyright," Mr= =2E Panzer noted. "This agreement between VAGA and AMICO
heightens availability= of our artists=92 works for educational purposes,
while still ensuring their appropriate use under an educational license
agreement; that's definitely a win-win from VAGA=92s perspective.".
AMICO Library subscribers will benefit from this agreement as well. Along
w= ith the existing AMICO agreement with the Artists Rights Society (ARS),
the AMICO/VAGA agreement expands the depth of resources contained in The
AMICO Library without any change in subscription fees. Individual teachers
and students won't need to obtain additional copyright clearances, often a
time-consuming and uncertain process, when using pivotal contemporary works
= by artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Robert
Motherwell, i= n their educational projects.
About AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is an independent
non-profit corporation with 501 (c) 3 designation from the IRS. Founded in
1997 with 2= 3 Members, the Consortium today is made up of over 30 major
museums worldwide. It=92s an innovative collaboration not seen before in
museums that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information
regarding museum collections an= d enables its educational use. Membership
is open to any institution with a collection of art.
AMICO members make annual contributions of multimedia documentation of
works= in their museums=92 collections. This data is compiled by AMICO and
made avail= able as The AMICO Library to universities, colleges, schools,
and public librarie= s via distributors. Potential subscribers may preview
a Thumbnail Catalog of = The AMICO Library and get further information at
http://www.amico.org.
About VAGA =46ounded in 1976, VAGA was the first organization in the U.S.
to represent visual artists' copyrights on a collective basis. Its
membership includes American artists and estates and also foreign artists
and estates through reciprocal agreements with sister organizations
worldwide. Membership is op= en to all visual artists ranging from those
just starting out to well-known members of the art community such as,
Robert Rauschenberg, Stuart Davis, Rob= ert Motherwell, Louise Bourgeois,
Jasper Johns, Joseph Cornell, Ben Shahn, David Smith, Carlos M=E9rida,
Romare Bearden, James Rosenquist, Alexander Rodchenk= o, Donald Judd, Alex
Katz, Thomas Hart Benton, Adolph Gottlieb, Tom Wesselmann, Wayne Thiebaud,
Vladimir and Georgi Stenberg, David Alfaro Siqueiros, H.C. Westermann,
Grant Wood, Ken Noland, Robert Smithson, and Larry Rivers.
Contact Information:
AMICO
Jennifer Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium
2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Phone: (412) 422 8533
=46ax: (412) 422 8594
Email: jtrant@amico.org
http://www.amico.org
VAGA
Robert Panzer
Executive Director
Visual Artists and Galleries Association,
Inc. (VAGA)
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6305
New York, NY 10118
Phone: (212) 736 6666
=46ax: (212) 736 6767
E-mail: rpanzer@vagarights.com
-- ________ 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@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia ________
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