[Insightl] ArtSTOR interoperability / "Offline Viewer" issues

[Donald W. Beetham]

So is ARTstor's concern one of a possible role in a copyright 
infringement???

One would hope that ARTstor not confuse the "priorities of the Insight 
community" with the issue of mixing collections so lectures are 
seamless. Mellon needs to deviate a bit from the Jstor model. No outside 
collection is going to supply all the content for a college lecture. 
Like Luna Imaging, the entire VRA community has recognized the need to 
draw from numerous sources from the earliest discussions of teaching 
with digital images. Luna just happened to develop a software that does 
this well. Of course, It was the copyright issue that discouraged 
efforts of VRA members to provide the content that could be shared.

Being so close, one can only hope all the parties can address the issue 
of protecting images, if indeed this is the problem.

Don

 Daniel Bridgman wrote:

>...Last April that experiment seemed enough of a 
>success that our staff tacitly sanctioned significant 
>cross-collection group-building for our most aggressive digital 
>users. A case in point were the 8000 images that were gleaned for 
>potential use in three upcoming survey courses.... 
>
>In June, however, we learned that, due to licensing 
>restrictions--not technical obstacles....
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Donald W. Beetham
Director, Visual Resources Collection
Department of Art History
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
732-932-1068
beetham at rci.rutgers.edu