RE: Artists, Museums & Copyright??

How else could a painting be "published"? That's what museums and galleries do: they publish art works in exhibition catalogs. How can you "publish" the original? You can only display it.

Seems a perfect example of the mis-fit between copyright law and art, that Tyler pointed out.

Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources and Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu

At 07:30 26/09/02 -0400, you wrote:
>At 08:05 AM 9/25/02 -0400, Chris Mohr wrote:
>>There is another question--namely, whether the appearance of a
>>reproduction of the painting in the museum catalog before 1978 rendered
>>the work PD.
>
>Hmmm. I don't see how publication of a reproduction would act as
>publication of the original, or am I missing something?
>
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Amalyah Keshet
Director of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il Board of Directors, the Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu Received on Sat Sep 28 2002 - 08:44:59 GMT