At 07:30 AM 2/23/97 LOCAL, you wrote:
>I've read and re-read your note, lots of food for thought and I'm also
>looking forward to reading "Copyright and Fair Use..." (which I have on
>order).  I could call it a "research fee" instead of a "usage fee" because
>about 90% the requestor is unable to come to the Museum to do their own
>research. The "usage fee" does not always cover the cost of locating the
>negative, gathering the information about the piece -- which is not always
>conveniently located -- as well as collection maintenance -- resleeving the
>negative, climate control for the collection, ad infinitum
>
>I don't consider the institution being reimbursed for all of that -- "holding
>in ransom".
>
>-Nina Cummings-
>The Field Museum, Chicago
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>>From: "Robert A. Baron" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: Usage Rights on patterns?
>
>> works that are no longer
>>copyrightable -- should be held for ransom by the very institutions in
>>which they have been deposited to manifest this destiny.
>
>

To play devil's advocate:  Isn't maintaining the collection and supplying
information to researchers what we are already employed by our institution
to do?


Janice Klein
The Field Musem
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