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Here are the notes of a day I spent looking around for image rights:
First, I started on the Smithosonian
and thought that I would begin by searching Smithsonian and adding to my collection…but then I found their rights and reproductions page
and thought about looking at Moma’s site instead. Here’s what they listed:
All requests to reproduce works of art from MoMA’s collection within North America (Canada, U.S., Mexico) should be addressed directly to Art Resource, Scala’s New York representative, at 536 Broadway, New York, New York 10012. Telephone (212) 505-8700; fax (212) 505-2053, requests@artres.com, www.artres.com.
>OK, so I left a message with allison on Thursday and then I talked with Kerry on Friday.
212 505 8700
She said, roughly, we were probably looking at something like $250 an image and that we may also have to pay more $$ to clear w/ artist estate such as vaga, artist rights society, etc.
I sent to her the title of the textbook, print run, list of images we want.
She said that “use is use” of a photo or of a painting or even of a photo of a painting; ie. there is no “fair use”.
So that seemed sort of bleak without a budget for images. Then I checked out Fischinger’s website to see what we could dig up there. We were hoping for just one still frame of any of his works. I called the number on the site and spoke with an woman who made me repeat my phone number eight times before she was able to decipher that my LA-based phone number starts with area code 323 and has only seven digits following the area code. She took my number and said that cvm will call me regarding Oskar Fischinger, but now it’s been four days and the phone isn’t ringing. In a way, it probably doesn’t matter – they would want money, I’m sure, and we don’t have any.
CVM wrote:
CVM has no message, email or access request from your organization, thus we are unclear why this comment was posted about CVM.
The procedure for Image Reproduction requests for Oskar Fischinger is stated on the Fischinger Archive website at http://www.oskarfischinger.org
Please provide full information to ofischingerinfo (at) gmail.com for photo reproduction requests. Please allow up to 2 weeks for response.
Posted on 30-Jan-08 at 11:17 am | Permalink
xtine wrote:
Oh, that’s surprising! I left a message with the woman who answers the phone at the 562 phone number, which I found on oskarfischinger.org.
Anyhow, we don’t have money to pay for rights and reproductions. So instead of showing our students and the 8 – 20,000 people who buy the book, and the 100,000s of people who download the book Oskar Fischinger’s work, I guess we’ll have to use something that is in the public domain.
Maybe you’ll consider donating an image to our book in exchange for the cultural return on your investment. In other words, instead of a few hundred dollars, our book will yield enough cultural imprints based on a single image that students will request that his work is available in their school libraries. Or consider this: I don’t have a single student who knows the name Oskar Fischinger right now. The only reason I know of his work is that I had a radical mentor in graduate school. Maybe the value of his name, alone, is worth the donation.
Posted on 30-Jan-08 at 8:56 pm | Permalink
Michael wrote:
Ditto on none of my students not knowing his work. In fact most of the Fellows in the R&D Lab at Eyebeam did not know who he was. The (only?) one who did know who he was loves his work, and lamented the misguided attempts by the Fischinger Archive to constrain all use of his images and films. He too reported that none of his students knew who Fischinger was, despite his incredible importance to the histories of film, animation, art and design.
Posted on 30-Jan-08 at 10:56 pm | Permalink