Exploring New Models for Administering Intellectual Property: The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project

Research and teaching in the university would benefit if high-quality museum images and associated information could be made available over campus networks for educational purposes. For this to be possible, however, museums and educational institutions need to define a common framework for information collection, distribution, and use, that respects intellectual property rights. The Museum Educational Site Licensing (MESL) Project has brought museums and universities together to explore these administrative, legal, and technical issuespublished or submitted for publicatio