Dear Ms. Landon

Just out of curiosity, and without addressing the IP problems, I  
would ask you these three questions.

Do you believe it will attract to the exhibition, those who would not  
have otherwise known of it?

Do you believe it will cause those who see it in reproduction to not  
see it in your museum?

Do you plan to try and track the former?

I know these are in one sense, irrelevant to your posting.

And in another sense, I suppose my questions could be asked as one,  
that is, "How are you damaged?"

I do not mean to distract you from seeking peer response and advice.   
Your every professional
practices antenna should be aquiver and alert.

At the risk of asking one too many questions, one might ask if there  
is an opportunity here to turn this
into part of a publicity campaign for the exhibition by notifying  
Flickr viewers of  programming associated
with the exhibition, etc.

But I am quite curious about this.

Thank you.

Dan R. Rouser
Long time museum member and observer
Wichita, Kansas





On Jun 14, 2008, at 11:54 PM, Kaia Landon wrote:

> We've been wanting to add some photos to Flickr for awhile, and I  
> just now started uploading a few.  I followed the tags to see what  
> else was already there tagged with our museum's name, and I was  
> awfully surprised to find 62 photos -- all of one small (700 square  
> feet) very popular exhibition.  Now, these aren't just photos,  
> these are basically reproductions of ALL of the label text, along  
> with everything in the exhibition.  As it is Saturday evening and I  
> just discovered it, I haven't had a chance to discuss with the  
> exhibition's curator, or our graphic designer who spent countless  
> hours on the labels, or my director, but I cannot imagine that they  
> would be pleased.
>
> Has anyone dealt with this sort of problem?  Can anyone point me to  
> relevant copyright regulations as applied to photos of labels, and  
> photos of photos?
>
> While we do allow photographs, and we should be fine with people  
> posting photographs, this is basically a complete copy of the  
> exhibition.  It is an exhibition on a long-time popular local  
> television program, and I believe we have several possible layers  
> of difficulty, as some of the photos (in the exhibition, which are  
> reproduced on Flickr) are undoubtedly originally from the  
> television station, or private collectors, etc., along with all  
> sorts of quotes.  These do not seem to be "Hey, look at my trip to  
> the Museum" photos, but rather "Hey, I'm reproducing the entire  
> exhibition for you all here!" photos.
>
> I'm just speechless.
> Thanks,
> Kaia Landon
> Curator of Education (and tech guru)
> Mesa Historical Museum
>
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