On 02/22/02, Gloria Curdy asked:
What opinion do you wonderfully experienced people have regarding this =
request from an English teacher regarding the use of the old masters' =
works of art on a website:
"Is it okay for us to include famous pieces of art, such as =
Mary Cassatt, on our website for students to respond to, with poems and =
stories? What are the copyright restrictions regarding classical =
paintings?"
Here are two reponses I received today:
Check many of the museums on the web they should tell you somewhere on =
their
site the copyrights for the paintings they are showing and what is
permissible.
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While the old master is certainly in the public domain, the PHOTOGRAPH =
of the work is protected by copyright. You aren't actually using the old =
master, you are using someone's photograph of it.
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Gloria Curdy, Library Program Coordinator
Missoula County Public Schools
215 S. 6th St. W.
Missoula, MT 59801
"Whatever the costs of our libraries,=20
the price is cheap compared to that
of an ignorant nation."....Walter Cronkite
gcurdy@mcps.k12.mt.us
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