III: Assessing your Collection
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Assess your collection to determine where copyright stands, i.e. what works are considered to be in the public domain, for which works does your museum hold clear copyright?
how to get started?
- This is a great place to start. It is a database of copyright holders for the works of various writers, artists and other creatives. WATCH is run jointly by the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin and University of Reading Library. http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/
- http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
ANOTHER GREAT TOOL!!!
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Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (Chart: Cornell University) Updated annually: http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/
- contact a copyright lawyer for advice
- look into copyright organizations like VAGA, ARS, the Library of Congress, etc.
- apply for copyright
- This is a great place to start. It is a database of copyright holders for the works of various writers, artists and other creatives. WATCH is run jointly by the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin and University of Reading Library. http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/
VAGA
http://www.vaga.org
