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Learning to live with risk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Peter B. Hirtle
Peter B. Hirtle*
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Cornell University, 2B53 Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Email: pbh6@cornell.edu
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Abstract

How can cultural heritage institutions use new technologies to improve access to holdings for remote users when so much material is protected by copyright and the repository is normally not the copyright owner? Many American institutions have put material online even when they do not own the copyright, after taking thoughtful measures to minimize the risk that this may incur. Others have elected to forego any efforts to control the use of public domain reproductions from their holdings.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , 2012 , pp. 5 - 11
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2012

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