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Including Material from Diane Zorich, Developing Intellectual Property Policies: A Guide for Museums. NINCH/CHIN, 2003


IP Policy Background | Sample Museum IP Policies | IP Policiesand Guides from other Nonprofits | Rights and Reproduction Terms and Conditions | General IP Guides and Resources for Museums | International Issues | Statutes


Basic and Background Information about IP Policy

American Association of Museums' Technical Information Service. 2000. "Useful Steps in Developing Intellectual Property Policies for your Museums," in Intellectual Property Resource Pack (MS-Word)

Barnett, Gerald. "Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property." Paper presented at Creating Policy: Copyright Policies in the University. NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, Eugene, Oregon. November 19, 2001. See http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html#gkh

Browne, Rachelle. "Constructing Values: What to Put Into a Policy." Paper presented at Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World. NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, Toronto, Canada, September 7, 2002. http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.report.html

Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World. NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, Toronto, Canada, September 7, 2002. http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.report.html

Copyright Clearance Center Guidelines for Creating a Policy for Copyright Compliance. http://www.copyright.com/Resources/Guidelinesinstructions.asp
Information and template for constructing policy for copyright compliance for the use of copyrighted materials of others.


SAMPLES
Intellectual Property Policies in Museums

Commonwealth of Virginia. "Virginia Museum of Natural History Copyright and Patent Policy." In the AAM Intellectual Property Resource Pack. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 2000.

The Henry Ford Policy and Procedures Memorandum No. 23A Intellectual Property. March 1999. Unpublished.

Indianapolis Museum of Art. Policy on Intellectual Property. 2002, Unpublished.

Maine State Museum Commission. 94-073 Maine State Museum, Chapter 502: Reproduction of Museum Collections, June 28, 1987. See State of Maine: Online Rules of Maine State Government Agencies at http://www.state.me.us/sos/cec/rcn/apa/depts.htm

Rochester Museum and Science Center. Image Access and Use Policies and Procedure. Unpublished draft, 2002.

Royal Ontario Museum, Board Policy: Copyright Policy; Trademark Policy; Information Management (all MS Word documents)

La Societè des musees quebecois. Droits d'auteur sur Internet - position de la SMQ. March 12, 2002.
http://www.musees.quebec.museum/publicsspec/smq/activites/textes/droitsauteur.phtml

Tech Museum of Innovation, Policy Statement: Releasing Exhibits Intellectual Property (September 28, 1999), http://www.thetech.org/rmpo2/policiesstandar_/exhibits_/policystatement/policystatement.html



IP Policiesand Guides from other Nonprofit Organizations

ARTstor. 2003. Standards and Policies: Statement on Intellectual Property Rights http://www.artstor.org/about/statement.shtml

Groton Public Schools. 2002 Copyright Implementation Manual. http://grotonk12.ct.us/mts/eg1.htm

H-Net. H-Net's Policy on Copyright and Intellectual Property. 1999.
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/about/intellectualproperty.html

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Intellectual Property: Explanatory Statement on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Intellectual Property Policy for Digital Products Developed with Foundation Funds. March 16, 2001. http://www.mellon.org/MellonIntellectual.htm

Pierre Trudel et France Abran, Guide pour gérer les aspects juridiques d'Internet en milieu scholaire.
http://www.crdp.umontreal.ca/guides/scol.pdf

University of Georgia Library. Copyright Policy
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/uga.txt

University of Maryland. Copyown - Policies (A Resource on Policies for the Higher Education Community.)
http://www.inform.umd.edu/CompRes/NEThics/copyown/policies/
(N.B. Contains dozens of IP policies from North American universities.)

University of North Carolina. November 2000. Copyright Use and Ownership Policy of the University of North Carolina. http://www.northcarolina.edu/docs/aa/research/copyright/BOG_copyright_policy.pdf

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. August 1, 2001. Copyright Policy. http://www.unc.edu/campus/policies/copyright.html

University of Texas. 2002. Intellectual Property Policy and Guidelines. http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/polguide.htm


Rights and Reproduction Terms and Conditions

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Reproduction from the Collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, reproduced in American Association of Museums, Intellectual Property Resource Pack.

Detroit Institute of Art, Terms/Electronic
http:// www.diamondial.org.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Terms and Conditions of Use of Content from this Web Site, http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu.

Library of Congress, Photo Duplication Service, Digital Imaging Services, Fees http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/pds/digital.html.

Library of Congress, Recorded Sound Reference Center, Obtaining Copies of Audio Materials, http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/record/audiodup.html.

Copyright Notices
Library of Congress, Prints and Photography Division, Copyright and Other Restrictions Which Apply to Publication and Other Forms of Distribution of Images: Sources for Information, http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html.

Library of Congress, Southern Mosaic, Lomax Homepage, Copyright and other Restrictions, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lores.html.

Whitney Museum of American Art, Copyright Notice
http:// www.whitney.org/information/rights.html


General IP Guides and Resources for Museums

Black, Edward, Esquire, Ropes & Gray, Boston, Massachusetts, "Guidelines for Use of Marks and Logos,"
reproduced in American Association of Museums, Intellectual Property Resource Pack.

Cleveland Museum of Art (unpublished)
- "General Framework for Evaluating/Creating Intellectual Property Policies and Procedures" (MS-Word)
- "Sample IP Inventory" (MS-Word)

Collard, Christine. 2002. Copyright Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Organizations. Canadian Heritage Information Network. http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Intellectual_Property/Copyright_Guide/introduction.html

Copyright in Cultural Institutions. (CICI) http://www.nma.gov.au/aboutus/cici
(N.B. Australian site on copyright and privacy issues in Australian cultural institutions.)

International Council of Museums, "Code of Professional Ethics" (November 4, 1986)
http://icom.museum/ethics_rev_engl.html

McClean, Daniel and Schubert, Karsten (eds). Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture. Ridinghouse/ICA, 2002.

Museums Copyright Group - UK based organization
http://www.mda.org.uk/mcopyg/index.htm

Public Knowledge
- public interest group concerned with preserving fair use principles in digital right management systems
http://www.publicknowledge.org

RARIN (Rights and Reproductions Information Network). Web site of the Registrars' Committee of the American Association of Museums. http://www.panix.com/~squigle/rarin/01rcsite.html

Shapiro, Michael and Brett Miller. A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums.

Stokes, Simon. 2001. Art & Copyright. UK: Hart Publishing.

WATCH Writers, Artists and their Copyright Holders. http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/
(N.B. The WATCH File (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) is a database containing primarily the names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom. )

Wienand, Peter, Anna Booy, and Robin Fry. 2000. A Guide to Copyright for Museums and Galleries. UK: Routledge.

Zorich, Diane. 1999. Introduction to Managing Digital Assets. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust., pp. 150. Also online at http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/booksites/intro_mda/index.html

UNESCO Institute for Information on Technologies in Education.
http://www.iite.ru/index

Visual Resources Association, "Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in a Non-Profit Educational Visual Resource Collections."
http://www.arthist.umn.edu/slides/IPR/guidelines.html


International Issues

Hoffman, Marci. Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements. 2001 LLRX (Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC). http://www.llrx.com/features/ustreaty.htm

World Intellectual Property Organization http://www.wipo.org


Statutes

Government of Canada, Copyright Act (Ottawa: R.S. 1985, c. C-42)
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/

Canadian Intellectual Property Office, Industry Canada, A Guide to Copyrights (Ottawa, 1994)
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/cp/copy_gd_main-e.html

Industry Canada's Intellectual Property Policy Information Page
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/ssg/ip00001e.html

Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, 17 U.S.C. 1201 - 1203 (Supp. 2000).
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf

U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/