Case Studies/Procedure Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus
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Overview
The Associazione Amici del Museo dell Grigne Onlus is an profit organization based in Esino Lario, province of Lecco, Italy and founded in 1989. Esino Lario is a small mountain village of 780 inhabitants. The association supports the local museum Museo dell Grigne, it manages the Ecomuseo delle Grigne and the Pietro Pensa Archive; it produced publications, conferences, itineraries and workshops for adults and children, and it commissions art works, design projects and research.
License Usage
The association Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus uses the license Creative Commons attribuition share alike as part of its policy and in all its procedures. Collaborators are informed that the association has decided to adopt the license Creative Commons attribution share alike on all its documentation, projects and publications and they are asked to accept that also the texts and images they produce have the same license. Artists are asked to provide their biography and a presentation of the art work in CC BY-SA and to provide 3 images of their work 800px large in CC BY-SA.
Motivations
The motivations are also described in Italian here http://pietro.pensa.it/Ecomuseo_delle_Grigne_sostiene_le_licenze_libere
Impact
The CC BY-SA license required to create contracts and agreements with all collaborators and partners. To produce the contracts and agreements the organization was also able to regulate policies and to make its evaluation process more transparent. The procedures are now adopted for all the current projects. This approach is implemented by other organizations through the project Share Your Knowledge promoted by lettera27 Foundation and the contracts created by the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus are copied and used by other organizations.
Technical Details
To inform the collaborators and to create a transparent procedure, the association produced a standard "Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus/lettera di incarico". This document includes 1. objective and expected results (to be able to monitor the results) 2. copyright agreement 3. information on the privacy (as requested by the Italian law) 4. information about the association policy The document
To inform the artists and to create a transparent agreement, the association produced a standard "Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus/autentica" (authentic). This document includes 1. number of copies of the artwork. The standard are 3 copies plus a "copia d'artista" 2. propriety 3. procedure to install the art work. The artworks produce come in two versions: a light version which the association can exhibit without any specific requirement and it can borrow and circulate; a full installation which requires the artists to be informed when the art work is exhibited. 4. selling procedure 5. copyright agreement 6. information on the privacy (as requested by the Italian law) 7. information about the association policy
To adopt the CC BY-SA on the publications, the association included in its publication the CC BY-SA logo and the sentence "The texts of this publication are under Creative Commons attribution share-alike.
Media
- The policy of Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus in online on its website http://pietro.pensa.it/Copyright
