Reference Guide to Museum Legal Issues

AATA Online. Abstracts of International Conservation Literature web site: http://aata.getty.edu/nps/. AATA Online is a free online resource of abstracts, which covers topics including copyright, cultural heritage, and legal issues.

American Association of Museums. AAM web site: http://www.aam-us.org/. AAM members can access the Information Center, which provides links to online resources about museum governance, best practices, and legal and ethical issues. See Ethical and Legal Collections Issues under the Collections Stewardship section.

Buck R. A. , and Gilmore J. A. (ed.). 1998. The new museum registration methods. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums.

Kneel S. J. 2004. Museums and the future of collecting, 2nd ed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company.

Lipinski T. A. (ed.) 2002. Libraries, museums and archives: legal issues and challenges in the new information era. Invited collection of papers presented at the Institute for Legal and Ethical Issues in the New Information Era: Challenges for Libraries, Museums and Archives, May 20-29, 2000. Sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the Center for Information Policy Research, and the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Malaro M. C. 1998. A legal primer on managing museum collections. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Merryman J. H. , and Elsen A. E. . 1998. Law, ethics and the visual arts, 4th ed. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International.

National Park Service. Museum Handbook, Part III: Museum Collections Use. Web Edition: http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/handbook.html. The third of three parts in the NPS Museum Handbook, this section provides guidance on legal issues including copyright, privacy and publicity information, and rights and reproductions.

Phelan M. E. 2001. Museum law: a guide for officers, directors & counsel, 2nd ed. Evanston, IL: Kalos Kapp Press.

Weil S. E. 2000. A deaccession reader. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums.

Adams R. (ed.). 2001. Implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums.

American Council for Cultural Property. ACCP web site: http://www.culturalpolicycouncil.org has direct links for full texts of national and international laws, online reference articles, and a bibliography of property issues.

Bray T. L. (ed.). 2001. The future of the past: archaeologists, Native Americans, and repatriation. New York: Garland Publishing.

Fahy A. (ed.). 1995. Collections management. Leicester Readers in Museum Studies. New York: Routledge.

Fine-Dare K. S. 2002. Grave injustice: the American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Fitz Gibbon K. 2005. Who owns the past? Cultural policy, cultural property, and the law. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies of Washington University. Imperialism, Art & Restitution Conference (March 26-276, 2004) web site: http://law.wustl.edu/igls/Conferences/20032004/ImperialismArtRestitutionConf04.html. Download Word or PDF files of conference papers or view videos of conference sessions.

International Council of Museums. ICOM web site: http://icom.museum/. Under Resources, ICOM hosts online information under Fighting the Illicit Traffic in Cultural Property about conventions, legislations, police and custom organizations, information on stolen objects, and resources on the issue of spoliation of Jewish cultural property during the Second World War.

King T. F. 2004. Cultural resource laws & practice, 2nd ed. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press and the American Association for State & Local History.

Messenger P. M. (ed.). 1999. The ethics of collecting cultural property, 2nd ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Mihesuah D. A. (ed.). 2000. Repatriation reader: who owns American Indian remains? Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

National NAGPRA web site: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra/. The National NAGPRA web site provides information about the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) regulations and implementation.

Phelan M. E. (ed.). 1998. Law of cultural property & natural heritage: protection, transfer, & access. Evanston, IL: Kalos Kapp Press.

Renfrew C. 2000. Loot, legitimacy and ownership: the ethical crisis in archaeology (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology). Sterling, VA: Duckworth Publishing.

Yeide N. , Akinsha K. , and Walsh A. . 2001. The AAM guide to provenance research. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums.

American Zoo and Aquarium Association. AZA web site: http://www.aza.org/. The Government Affairs section of the AZA web site provides technical expertise on national and international laws that impact animal welfare, conservation, display, transportation, and captive breeding.

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. SPNHC web site: http://www.spnhc.org/. The SPNHC Documentation Committee section offers links to legal information about collecting natural history specimens and endangered species.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, National Collections Program. NCP web site: http://www.si.edu/archives/NCP/ncphome.htm. The NCP Primer on endangered species law explains how laws protecting certain plants and animals impact museum professionals, provides general information about the laws, and information about how to apply for federal permits.

Baron R. (ed.). 1997. The great image debate. Visual Resources 22 (3-4). Special double issue on copyright and fair use.

College Art Association. CAA web site: http://www.collegeart.org/. CAA Committee on Intellectual Property hosts a Copyright Information Page with links to papers and projects on copyright and intellectual property.

Lind R. C. , Jarvis R. M. , and Phelan M. E. . 2002. Art and museum law: cases and materials. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Shapiro M. S. , 1999. A museum guide to copyright and trademark. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums

Museums and Fair Use. 1997. Museum News 76 (5) (September/October). Special issue with articles by Steiner C. , Weil S. E. , and Shapiro M. S. .

Rights and Reproduction Information Network. RARIN web site: ihttp://www.panix.com/-squigle/rarin/01rcsite.html. RARIN is a taskforce of the Registrars Committee, a Standing Professional Committee of the American Association of Museums.

U.S. Copyright Office web site: http://www.copyright.gov/. Provides links to U.S. Copyright Office publications, copyright registration information, copyright records, and copyright law.

Silverman S. , and Parezo N. J. (eds.). 1995. Preserving the anthropological record, 2nd ed. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.

Padfield T. 2004. Copyright for archivists and users of archives, 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists.

Wythe D. (ed.). 2004. Museum archives: an introduction, 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists.