FW: ROMA: Images of Italian cultural heritage (fwd)

From: Christine Sundt <csundt[_at_]OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:06:02 -0700 (PDT)

More on the Italian government's efforts to control its cultural heritage and what some individuals and organizations are doing about it. Is the decree legally binding, and who is bound by it?

Christine Sundt
<csundt[_at_]oregon.uoregon.edu>

P.S. This message is posted with permission from Bill Thayer
(petworth[_at_]suba.com); copies to Pilar Rivero (privero[_at_]posta.unizar.es)
and Andrea Maurino (maurinoa[_at_]varano.ing.unico.it)

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PETITION
   <65-1> Beni Culturali Beni Virtuali

          Andrea Maurino <maurinoa[_at_]varano.ing.unico.it>

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3518/index.html

LVIS:4/20/97 LANG:I/E    I encourage us all, especially those with webpages or any direct interest in the matter, to sign this petition, sponsored by several large Italian archaeology organisations among others.

   Loosely put, the Italian government has passed a decree making it illegal to use images of items of Italian heritage if you are not a museum; the decree seems aimed squarely at the Internet, and smells of bureaucracy attempting to keep a preserve. At any rate, if strictly implemented, it would force the removal of many images of Italian antiquities from the Web
(which also seems to me very stupid even from the Italian government's own
point of view: don't they want us to see the beautiful things Italy has to offer?)

   For details, incl. associated mailinglist, see the site.

Bill Thayer
RomanSites-L Received on Mon Apr 21 1997 - 17:11:52 GMT