[MCN-L] ‏‏IP SIG: Fair Use Guidelines for art and images

[Amalyah Keshet [akeshet@imj.org.il]]

Report of IP SIG meeeting, Nov. 13, 2009, Portland, Oregon

Proposal: the NYC Bar Association's Art Law Committee is drafting a fair use guidelines for the use of art and images (for artists, museums, scholarly publishers). The Guidelines would follow the model of the successful Fair Use Guidelines for Documentary Filmmakers created by the Washington Law School, American University. MCN's IP SIG could be in a position to offer valuable input from the museum perspective. A document of this kind, which we have contemplated before, is badly needed, and there is an obvious professional and persuasive advantage to having it authored by the Bar Association's Ar t Law Committee.

Decided: MCN's IP SIG supports the initiative and is willing to offer input and help.

A followup meeting was held in NYC between Virginia Rutledge (NYCBA Art Law Committee), Amalyah Keshet, Deborah Wythe, and Eve Sinaiko. The project is in the hands of the Art Law Committee, and I will update the IP SIG on any progress, or anything substantive we can do to help move this forward.


Amalyah Keshet
Chair, MCN IP SIG