Hi Riza, Here is the link to my upcoming online courses: https://cityofangelsconservation.weebly.com/online-classes.html Cheers! Dave David Harvey Principal Conservator & Museum Consultant Los Angeles CA. USA On Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 8:36 AM Rina Pedroza-Pahlavan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Dave, > > Do you have a website for your online course in "Copyright and > Intellectual Property 101 for Museums”. I am a museum studies student and > JHU online MA in Museum Studies program. This type of course is missing > form the curriculum at present, and I would be interested in supplementing > my education. > > Many thanks, > Rina Pedroza > 707-889-2028 > > On Apr 18, 2019, at 8:19 AM, topladave <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi Erica, > > I teach an online course on "Copyright and Intellectual Property 101 for > Museums". > > My advice is that your intitution you go over the current agreement with > this newspaper with a lawyer experienced with intellectual property issues > and then renegotiate the agreement before accepting any new materials from > them into your archives. You can easily estsblish a two-tier licencing fee > structure - one for commercial use and another for reserch and educational > use. You can also consider, as part of your negotiations, establishing a > preservation fee on the newspaper for the staff time abd resources in > maintaining their collection that they are collecting 100% of the licensing > fees on. If you eventually digitize this collection you will also be adding > to their value for the newspaper. That could be a pathway to negotiate your > way into receiving a percetage from the licensing fees for this collection > that you will be administering and caring for. > > Cheers! > Dave > > David Harvey > Principal Conservator & Museum Consultant > Los Angeles CA USA > www.cityofangelesconservation.weebly.com > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 7:23 AM Erica Travis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Good morning listers, >> >> I'm writing in the hopes that some of you may have dealt with a similar >> situation or may have some advice on ways that my institution can improve >> and clarify our relationship with a media group that holds copyright to a >> local newspaper. >> >> About nine years ago, we acquired the clipping and photo files, >> microfilm, and bound volumes from a local newspaper. Since then, the >> production of a physical paper ended, and the parent company, mLive, >> produces only digital news content. I wasn't on staff at the time of >> acquisition, but from what I know they intended on disposing of the >> physical archive if we were not interested in any or all of the materials, >> giving us at least some leverage to renegotiate the agreement with them >> from c.2010. >> >> At this time, we are in the construction phase of a museum renovation, >> which includes integrating the archive into the main museum building >> (currently it and Collections staff are housed in a building across the >> street) so we anticipate greater visibility and use and believe this may be >> good timing, not to mention the very movement of the material to the main >> building is affecting (and sometimes dictating) construction and design >> decisions, so we feel it's essential to readdress our agreement with them. >> >> Our main points of contention are that the original agreement stipulates >> they get unfettered access to the collection, which sometimes comes at very >> inconvenient and unscheduled times, which as you can imagine, can be >> disruptive to our staff. Secondly, we have learned from those seeking to >> reproduce materials from the collection that the licensing fee is $300. >> Generally speaking materials reproduced for personal research or use do not >> get assessed a fee, but for example, a local professor is looking to >> include photos from the newspaper in an exhibition (I believe on campus) >> and has been assessed this hefty fee. This is especially frustrating, >> considering we have also hear they are difficult to communicate with and >> get approval from. I understand there is nothing I can do about their right >> to retain copyright, but hope they might be willing to negotiate lower fees >> for reproduction by non-profits or academic institutions for whom several >> hundred dollars is a cost they cannot bear. >> >> I find it hard to swallow that they receive all the financial reward for >> a collection of material that they found so invaluable that they would >> throw it in the trash if we didn't accept it, and for which they were not >> willing to expend any funds to store, arrange, or care for. >> >> I wondered if any of you out there are in or are aware of a similarly >> murky relationship with an outside entity that ties your hands like this or >> makes things difficult on your researchers, and if you have any suggestions >> on how we might successfully renegotiate an agreement. If you are or have >> been in a similar situation, I would be interested in seeing any of the >> agreements you have in place so that we have some reference for jargon, etc. >> >> Thank you all in advance! >> >> Best, >> Erica >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the MUSEUM-L list, click the following link: >> http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-HOME.exe?SUBED1=MUSEUM-L&A=1 >> > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MUSEUM-L list, click the following link: > http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-HOME.exe?SUBED1=MUSEUM-L&A=1 > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MUSEUM-L list, click the following link: > http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-HOME.exe?SUBED1=MUSEUM-L&A=1 > ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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