Dear all
Please find attached a report on a recent very useful meeting between some
members of LACA (Libraries & Archives Copyright Group) and some members of
the MCG (Museums Copyright Group). The interesting thing is that the MCG
has received funding from Resource for a two-fold project. The first
involves co-ordination and co-operation, the second, which is very
relevant to the "digitisation wish list" which DACS asked us to compile,
is a feasibility study for negotiating an umbrella licence to cover the
digitisation of cultural materials. It is purely a feasibility study at
this stage. I asked for a definition of cultural materials and it includes
just about everything, artistic works, museum object, archival documants,
film, sound -recordings.
Stephanie Silvester
Chair, Visual Resouces Committee
Arlis/UK & Ireland
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