-This announcement is being posted to several locations.
   -Kindly excuse the inevitable duplications.


This note serves to announce that MAX ANDERSON's
talk on the AMICO project, the final paper from the
TOWN MEETING on COPYRIGHT and FAIR USE
held at the College Art Association meeting in Toronto
(February 1998), is now available on the Web.

AMICO, the Art Museum Image Consortium, is a program developed by a number
of cooperating museums in which representative and significant museum
images are pooled into a common electronic database and site-licensed to
interested educational institutions. Up to the Toronto Town Meeting, the
debate on the utility of AMICO, has focused on issues pertaining to the
effect and meaning of site-licensing, on the relationships between
traditional image collections and those created for use by teaching and
research institutions by outside agencies.  In addition, because licensed
images would seem to preclude their use in the US under a claim of Fair
Use, the traditional scholarly prerogative of Fair Use itself has been
brought into question.

For many readers interested in AMICO, Max Anderson's paper may come as
something of a surprise. In this paper, for the first time in this reader's
memory, AMICO's mission is described as providing unique documentary tools
to meet the needs of the scholarly research communities and as providing a
needed visual resources of consistent quality for scholarly workers. The
author goes further, however, and suggests that the fusion of electronic
images and electronic information culled from disparate collections
participating in AMICO may induce a synergy that has benefits beyond those
possible when traditional media are used.

All who are interested in scholarly electronic services, in pictorial
delivery systems, and in copyright issues as they apply to on-line
services, should glance through this article.

For a detailed program of the Toronto Town Meeting and for and speakers'
statements see http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm

For Max Anderson's paper see:

http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/ANDERSON.htm

note: When the above paper was written, Max Anderson was director of the
Art Gallery of Ontario; as of this writing, he has assumed directorship of
the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Robert Baron
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CAA/Toronto Town Meeting on Copyright: 2/26/98
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Robert A. Baron
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