RE: Lancet November 8th issue on Open Access

[Elaine.Alligood@med.va.gov]

If you search +"Jan van Eyck" +"Saint Jerome" via the IMAGES tab in google
and spell it correctly you can bring up a couple of images of St. Jerome
and his books.  If you search the main google you will retrieve a link to
this painting's home, The Detroit Institute of Art, where you can easily
copy the image as a jpeg with no copyright caveat popups that I noticed.  
I suspect the Lancet had other reasons or was not able to find the owner
of this image.  I rarely get to use my Art History degree, but every now
and then...

http://www.dia.org/collections/euroart/virgin/25.4.html
It's a great little painting, 5" X 7" check it out!

Elaine C. Alligood, MLS
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jill Emery [mailto:Jill.Emery@mail.uh.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 6:24 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Lancet November 8th issue on Open Access

I want to disagree with Liz about this matter but can only make a tenuous
argument at best.

Since we do not know the actual intentions of the copyright holder from
withholding the electronic access rights of this image, the best we can do
is postulate as to why the image was withheld.

Given this caveat, I pose that the image was probably withheld due to the
general lack of security in the electronic environment when it comes to
images, as opposed to the fact that it was being used in a for-profit
journal. It doesn't matter whether the image was to be used in an open
access journal or a for profit journal, the risks to the copyright holder
would more than likely be equivalent.

Just for fun and to see what would come up, I did a Google(TM) search
under the Images tab for "Saint Jerome, patron saint of librarians" which
resulted in no images being found. However, I was able to find a half
dozen images when searching Jan van Eyck and Jerome. Two of the images
were from .edu domains, 2 from .org domains and 2 from .com domains.

In the end it's difficult to ascertain whether the open access status
would have made a difference to the copyright holder or whether the half
dozen images currently on the web are there legally or not.

Cordially, 

Jill Emery
<Jill.Emery@mail.uh.edu>