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CAA Code of Best Practices in Fair Use in the Visual Arts

Part of each of the orientation sessions we conduct in the Arts Library touches on finding images, but what happens when you want to use an image you've found? Published in February of this year, the College Art Association's Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts is an essential resource for those who make use of images in scholarly and creative work. The Code describes situations when a "fair use" argument may apply as an exception to copyright.

Streaming video and media art from Electronic Arts Intermix

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is now offering educational streaming video, a new service from the not-for-profit organization specializing in preservation and distribution of video and media art from the 1960s to the present. EAI has an extensive catalog of videos by contemporary artists as diverse as Merce Cunningham, Pipilotti Rist, Dan Graham, Eleanor Antin, Ryan Trecartin, and the Wooster Group.

On the Boards now on your screen

On the Boards, a company founded in 1978 and based in Seattle, focuses on contemporary theater, dance, and performance. OntheBoards.tv is a database that brings together high-definition streaming videos of full-length performances by an international range of artists, including Young Jean Lee, Jan Fabre, and Teatro Línea de Sombra, professionally filmed and edited in collaboration with the artists in order to reach audiences around the world.

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