抄録
Art museums provide various kinds of image data services, such as interactive information service, video or film show service. Technologically, it has become possible to link multiple image data services and to provide these services wherever customers are. In this speech, I will talk about the following:
(1) Copyright problems related to various kinds of image data services. In addition to reproduction rights and showing rights for a video or a film, new rights related to multimedia and databases, such as broadcasting rights on the Internet, have been granted on January 1, 1998. I will also briefly mention what meaning these rights bring to us.
(2) The meaning of image data services at art museums to information providers, authors/copyright holders and users. Their interests conflict on some matters. There are also some misunderstandings and useless worries about illegal reproduction. In this context, I will mention how these issues can be dealt with by the legal system mentioned above, with my personal opinion included. I will also refer to the establishment of a copyright clearance center, like JASRAC in the field of music, now being considered from various points of view.
(Reproduced from Newsletter of Japan Art Documentation Society, No.37, Apr. 25, 1998)
