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Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free

14 May 2011, 5:28 pm

New Haven, Conn. — Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced today. Yale is the first Ivy League university to make its collections accessible in [...]

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New Review: In Praise of Copying

13 May 2011, 7:57 pm

In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon Reviewed by Amy Ione Anyone who followed Barack Obama’s popularity leading up to the 2008 presidential election in the United States no doubt recalls the iconic Hope image that seemed to become the unofficial poster of the campaign because many felt it defined Obama’s message so well. The [...]

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Judge Rejects Google’s Deal to Digitize Books

22 March 2011, 2:18 pm

A federal judge rejected Google’s $125 million class-action settlement with authors and publishers, delivering a blow to the company’s ambitious plan to build the world’s largest digital library and bookstore. Full article

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FYI: Ted Kennedy and visual art

27 August 2009, 9:48 am

So few of the tributes to Ted Kennedy have mentioned that he was a champion of the arts, including authoring the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), that I thought I would make a note of this.  VARA gives artists the power to control reproduction of their work and to retain rights even if the work [...]

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