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Risqué Business: Risks & Realities of Digitizing Artists’ PapersSlide2
The Archives of American Art collects, preserves and makes available primary source material documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States Slide3
www.aaa.si.eduSlide4Slide5Slide6Slide7Slide8
What are the risks?
Copyright infringement – published, unpublished, licensed.
Privacy Issues – medical records, social security records, banking records, tax records, 2
nd
or 3rd person concerns.
Appropriateness, Moral & Ethical Issues - nudity, lewd, lascivious, pornographic. Slide9
AAA Approach
Selection based on research value and use
Archival approach, not item approach
Do not seek copyright holder’s permission – not reasonable or feasible
Assume that almost everything falls under a broad concept of “fair use” Display thumbnails as initial point of accessAvoid only the riskiest materials
Rely on existing archival appraisal skill set No item-level cataloging for fully digitized collections Slide10
What we won’t risk – sort of...
Photographs stamped with a statement indicating the photograph can not be reproduced without permission.
Tax records (usually)
Social Security numbers and records
Medical records (usually)
Personnel and payroll records
Lewd, lascivious, and pornographic materialsNude photographs – especially those not of donor
Nude photographs of children
Published books/catalogs
Photographs of works of artSlide11Slide12Slide13Slide14Slide15Slide16Slide17Slide18Slide19Slide20
...“oh curse this damned abortion – I can’t
[can’t]
be good & they say I’ve got
to.
Eileen
I am shaved & I keep wanting your hand on me there - Slide21
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Barbara Aikens
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
aikensb@si.edu
Moses Soyer letter to grandson Daniel Soyer, circa 1964.