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| AMICO |
Art
Museum Image Consortium is a digital image licensing scheme sponsored by
the Association of Art Museum Directors. |
| Bit-Mapped
Image |
Digital
images are created from a series of bits and bytes that form pixels. Each
pixel can vary in color or gray-scale value. |
| CD |
Compact Disk.
A round, media storage device, typically 4.5" in diameter. The term
"CD" is used for both music/media and data storage disks. CDs
come in a variety of formats, including:
 *CD-R: Writable
disk. A CD on which data can be written, but not modified or deleted.
*CD-ROM: Read Only
Memory. A CD on which data can be accessed, but not modified or deleted.
*CD-RW: Read/Write
Disk. A CD on which data can be accessed and written (multiple times).
*Photo CD: A popular
storage method for digital images developed by Kodak in which five different
levels of image quality are stored for each image. |
| CDL |
California
Digital Library |
| CNI |
Coalition
of Networked Information. Organization to advance networked information
for scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. |
| CONFU |
The
Conference on Fair Use. Meeting of copyright stakeholders to negotiate
guidelines for the fair use of electronic materials in a variety of nonprofit
educational contexts. |
| CONTU |
Final Report
of the National Commission on New Technology Uses of Copyrighted Works |
| DC |
Dublin Core. A minimal set of metadata elements that digital document
creators or cataloguers can assign to information resources, which can
then be used for network resource discovery, especially on the Web. |
| DVD |
Digital Video Disk or
Digital Versatile Disk. Unlike the CD, the DVD is not in standard
format. Therefore, when burning a DVD, one shouldn't assume that it
will successfully play on every machine or migrate to other media. |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol. A method for moving files between computers
on the Internet. |
| HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language is an encoding format for identifying and linking
electronic documents used to deliver information on the World Wide Web. |
| http:// |
HyperText
Transfer Protocol |
| IPR |
The term
intellectual property rights includes copyright but also covers a wider
range of rights such as trademarks, patents, or performance and recording
rights. Effectively copyright is a sub-set of intellectual property rights.
However in common use the term copyright is sometimes confused or substituted
as a "shorthand" for IPR. |
| Internet |
The Internet
is an international network of computer networks originally created by the
federal government and now serving educational, government, commercial,
and military institutions as well as millions of individuals worldwide.
Gateways that convert formats and protocols between networks make the Internet
function as a single network with interconnectivity among all of its parts. |
| JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group. The acronym used for the still image
compression standard developed by this group, which is sanctioned by the
International Standards Organization (ISO). |
| LUCI |
Library
of University of California Images. |
| Metadata |
Data about
data. Introduction
to Metadata for more information. |
| NHA |
National Humanities Alliance. NHA
Guide to Intellectual Property Legislation. Includes information on
Copyright Legislation.
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| OPAC |
On-line Public Access Catalogue. A common term for automated computerized
library catalogs. |
| Photoshop |
A
sophisticated software program produced by Adobe Systems for the editing
and processing of images. |
| Pixel |
The
picture elements that make up a digital image similar to grains in a photograph.
|
| Thumbnail |
A
digital image limited to 125 x 125 pixels. |
| TIFF |
Tag Image
File Format. Popular public domain file format that permits efficient access
to high resolution images. |
| URL |
Uniform
Resource Locator. A standard addressing scheme used to locate sites on the
Internet. |
| Vignette |
A
digital image limited to 250 x 250 pixels. |
| VRA
Core |
The
Visual Resources Association's core record or standard for use in a
shared environment that defines the data elements required to describe an
item in a visual resources collection. |
| Watermark |
Bits
altered within an image to create a pattern that indicates proof of ownership.
Unauthorized use of a watermarked image can then be traced. |
| WWW |
The
World Wide Web is a user-friendly interface enabling the user to access
millions of sources of information located on the Internet through a Web
browser such as Netscape and through Web search engines. Web documents are
written in hypertext, a system that allows for text and graphical links
to documents and files spread across the Internet. |
| |
| Ackermann,
Ernest and Karen Hartman. The Information Specialist’s Guide to
Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Wilsonville:
Franklin, Beedle & Associates, 1999. |
| Albrecht,
Kathe Hicks. "Educational Use of Networked Information." Spectra
25, 1997, 33-39. |
|
Association of Research Libraries. Copyright, Public
Policy, and the Scholarly Community. Washington, DC: Association of
Research Libraries, 1995. |
| Baron, Robert,
ed. "Copyright and Fair Use: The Great Image Debate." Visual Resources
12, 1997, 3-4. |
| Bielefield,
Arlene and Lawrence Cheeseman. Technology and Copyright Law. New
York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 1997. |
| Bollier,
David. Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of our Common Wealth. Routledge,
2003 |
| Bruwelheide, J.H. The Copyright
Primer for Librarians and Educators. 2nd edition. Chicago: American
Library Association (with the National Education Association), 1995. |
| Computer
Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council. The
Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. Washington:
National Academy Press, 2000 |
|
Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright, Fair Use, and the
Challenge for Universities. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 1993. |
| Crystal,
David. Language and the Internet. Cambridge: The University Press,
Cambridge, 2001 |
| CSU-SUNY-CUNY
Joint Committee. Fair Use of Copyrighted Works: A Crucial Element in
Educating America. Sacramento: The Trustees of California State University,
1995. |
| Lee,
Lewis C. and J. Scott Davidson. Intellectual Property for the Internet.
New York: Wiley Law Publications, 1997. |
| Lessig, Lawrence.
Free Culture: How Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture
and Control Creativity. The Penguin Press, 2004 |
| McSherry,
Corynne. Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual
Property. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001 |
| National
Academy of Sciences. The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the
Information Age. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000. |
| Novak,
Carole and Beverly Teach (Eds.). What’s Fair: A Report on the Proceedings
of the National Conference on Educational Fair Access and the New
Media. Bloomington, IN: Technos Press of the Agency for Instructional
Technology, 1994. |
| Patterson,
L. Ray and Stanley W. Lindberg. The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users’
Rights. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1991. |
United
States Congress and Public Affairs Office, Office of Technology Assessment.
Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information.
Washington: April, 1986. |
|
Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Anarchist in the Library:
How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and
Crashing the System. Basic Books, 2004 |
| Internet
Sources -References and Guidelines |
| ©
Primer University of Maryland University College (Requires Flash) |
American Library Association
(ALA)
Submit your questions on copyright to the ALA's
Copyright Advisory Network Forums. |
| Association of Moving
Image Archivists |
| National Humanities
Alliance
Basic
Principles for Managing Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment
|
| Copyown:
a resource on ownership for the higher education community, University
of Maryland |
| Copyright
and Intellectual Property, Association of Research Libraries |
| Copyright and Licensing
Resources - Library of Congress |
| Copyright
– Intellectual Property Rights – Fair Use, Visual Resources
Association |
| Creative
Commons, "devoted to expanding the range of creative work available
for others to build upon and share." |
| Electronic
Frontier Foundation, "defending freedom in the digital world." |
| Fair
Use of Copyrighted Materials, University of Texas
|
| Frequently
Asked Film and Video Copyright Questions - UCB Moffitt Library |
| A
Proposal for Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images,
The Conference on Fair Use, 1996
See also Crash
Course in Copyright, University of Texas |
| Motion
Picture Licensing Corporation |
| Movie
Licensing USA | Public
Schools |
| Moving
Image Collections |
| National
Film Preservation Board |
| National
Film Registry |
| Public
Knowledge, an organization that advocates a fair and balanced approach
to copyright and technology policy. |
| Society
for Cinema and Media Studies |
| The
Copyright Website |
| Sundt, Christine,
Copyright
and Art Issues |
University
of California Office of the President, UC
Copyright & Digital
Millenium Copyright Act
UCOP Office of Technology Transfer, Using
Copyrighted Works of Others |
| United
States Copyright Office |
| Visual
Resources Association |
