Lorinda: need a little more information in order to answer this one:


On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 05:06:41 GMT  Lorinda Gayle wrote:
>We are trying to come up with a policy
>regarding employee copies of slides
>showing collection objects and conservation
>treatments.


What kind of collection? And what kind of slides? Technical?
Publishable? Documentation only? Lecture slides?  Only slides, or also b/w and color transparencies?

>Previously, we had an unwritten
>understanding among the staff that no
>employee could make copies of museum
>slides for his/her portfolio

"portfolio" - as in artist's portfolio? or everyday work files?


 without
>permission of the appropriate department
>head.
>
>Unfortunately, we have a problem with an
>individual who copied great number of
>slides to which he/she was not entitled,
>and who made the copies clandestinely.


for what purpose?


>The slide files are not kept under lock
>and key.
>
>Does anyone out there have a formal policy
>regarding slide copies?  My thinking is
>that these images are the museum's property


they may be the museum's physical property, or the museum's physical AND intellectual property...


>and as such are subject to some kind of control.
>
>Any thoughts?  Thanks is advance!
>
>--
>        Lorinda ("Lori") Gayle
>          [log in to unmask]
>            Cambridge, MA
>


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name: amalyah keshet
director, visual resources / the israel museum, jerusalem
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date: 01/23/97
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