MoMA has licensed it's images through Scala and Art Resource since about 2002. Art Resource handles our North American licensing while Scala handles all other international image requests. Davis Art Images markets our images for educational use in K-12 and increasingly to college/university clients.
Scala/AR handle sales, contracts, coordination of credit line/caption, image delivery and fee collection. We currently have ~11,000 objects represented in the Scala/AR inventory. We retain full control regarding usages that are not standard and preapproved. (Preapproved usage would include reproduction in an exhibition catalog accompanying a loan, etc.) Non-standard repro requests are conveyed to our in-house licensing liaison who works with a small internal committee via email for approval or denial. A decision is usually relayed to the licensing agency within a few hours. While I was not responsible for R&R when that department was in-house, from my POV the arrangement works efficiently with an advantageous balance of shared revenue to reduced internal costs. The relationship with our licensing agencies is administered under the Department of Imaging Services. Where the earlier R&R department depended upon 5-6 staff, we now have 1 person who acts as liaison with our licensing agencies. This staff member, Jennifer Sellar, is a visual resources librarian who is also responsible for DAM organizaton, metadata, etc. I posted with some details of our DAM earlier this week. Despite the occasional hiccup, by organizing image production, DAM, and licensing under the umbrella of Imaging Services we have been able to maintain relatively efficient management of the image process from object received in the studio, through capture, color correction and archiving, to image delivered to publisher. I'm happy to answer more detailed questions off-lilne for anyone who is interested. Erik Landsberg Head of Collections Imaging The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019 212-708-9489 erik_landsberg at moma.org www.moma.org > From: "Karen E. Richter" <krichter at Princeton.EDU> > Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu> > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:30:14 -0400 > To: <mcn-l at mcn.edu> > Subject: [MCN-L] Stock photo companies > > Hello, > > I'm new to the list and would welcome your responses to this. I'm > considering turning over some of our images to Art Resource and/or > Bridgeman Art Library. Would any of you be willing to share information > about your experience, especially your contractual arrangements with > these companies and any changes you might have made to their standard > contract? Also, how did you choose the images you provided, and if you > signed on to both companies, how did you choose the images for one > versus the other? Feel free to respond to me off-list. > > Thanks for your help. > > Karen > > Karen E. Richter > Image Resources Manager > Princeton University Art Museum > Tel. 609 258 5828 > Fax 609 258 6877 > http://artmuseum.princeton.edu <http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/> > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
