Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: fembot: Announcing a new pictorial digital women's history collection

2014-10-22 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hi - I actually professionally consult with GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) regarding the copyright of their images and the content within them and how copyright works. I have worked with everyone from the Smithsonian Institution to the Getty regarding opening their cultural

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: fembot: Announcing a new pictorial digital women's history collection

2014-10-22 Thread
On 22 October 2014 17:17, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: To be brutally honest: the university can claim copyright over the photographs of those images all they want but they will lose that case in a court of law if the photograph is of an object that was created before 1923.

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: fembot: Announcing a new pictorial digital women's history collection

2014-10-22 Thread Risker
The University does actually have a pretty good statement here: http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/about/copyright The key issue would more likely be that some of the articles are still under natural copyright, such as this one:

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: fembot: Announcing a new pictorial digital women's history collection

2014-10-22 Thread
On 22 October 2014 17:38, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: The key issue would more likely be that some of the articles are still under natural copyright, such as this one:

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: fembot: Announcing a new pictorial digital women's history collection

2014-10-22 Thread Kerry Raymond
Hi, Sarah! I would agree if we were only discussing the faithful reproduction of 2D pre-1923 images (which is what I believe was the National Portrait Gallery situation). But the bulk of subject matter in this Dovie Horvitz collection appears to be 3D objects (clothes to curling irons). I