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-------------   S C A N N I N G    F A Q    UPDATE 1/22/93   -----------------
Part 3 of 4

                   Questions and Answers Section 1


-- Where can I find information about specific scanning courses?

    Systems of Merritt, Inc.           (authors of "Inside PostScript"
    2551 Old Dobbin Dr. East            and original QMS color PS models)
    Mobile, AL  36695
    [phone]

    Peter Fink Communications, Inc.    (publisher of "Desktop to Press"
    120 Q Street NE                     and member of development team for
    Washington, DC  20002               Adobe's Accurate Screens technology)
    [phone]

    American Newspaper Publishers Association
    11600 Sunrise Valley Drive
    Reston, VA  22091
    [phone]

    TypeWorld/Color Publishing Systems Seminars
    Barrie Evans
    PennWell Publishing Co.
    [phone]

    QuarkXPress Users International
    P.O. Box 170
    Salem, New Hampshire  03079
    [phone]

    Graphic Arts Foundation
    4615 Forbes Avenue
    Pittsburg, PA  15213
    [phone]

    ACM/SIGGRAPH
    Conference Management
    401 North Michigan Ave
    Chicago, IL  60611
    [phone]



-- What are the specific copyright laws, et.al., governing scanning
-- for use in my DTP?

   Jeff Needleman provides the following information regarding this:

   Use a Scanner, Go to Jail
   -------------------------
   by Mark H. Anbinder -- TidBITS Contributing Editor

   Hewlett-Packard included a bulletin in a recent mailing to dealers
   warning them that, when demonstrating the capabilities of HP
   scanners, they must avoid scanning money and other "sensitive
   documents." Anyone who does scan such documents risks
   "Constructive Seizure" of their computer equipment, up to $25,000
   in fines, or up to fifteen years imprisonment.

   Apparently HP has learned of an incident where U.S. Treasury
   agents seized an HP ScanJet IIc scanner, HP DeskJet 500C printer,
   and an HP Vectra personal computer. The dealer and HP sales
   representative involved spent a considerable amount of time
   retrieving the equipment.

   HP provides this list of guidelines from the U.S. government.

   Unacceptable scanning:
   * Money
   * Federal Reserve notes
   * U.S. postage stamps
   * Foreign postage stamps
   * Revenue stamps
   * Other negotiable valuated articles (for example, checks, bonds,
     and securities)
   * Identification documents (for example, driver's license and
     governmental identification documents

   Acceptable scanning:
   * Photographs of people, places, or things
   * Pictures from magazines, newsletters, and calendars
   * Other similar non-sensitive documents

   We wish to add that, if you do scan photographs (or even text)
   from copyrighted publications, it's important to secure permission
   before using that material in any way.

   Perhaps the government is concerned that computer input and output
   devices are becoming powerful enough that counterfeiting is (or
   will soon be) a real concern. We've seen the latest output
   technology, though, and we're skeptical that counterfeiting with
   multi-million-dollar technology would be cost-effective! Of
   course, until output quality catches up with the government's
   concerns, we'll be unable to avoid the image of a crook lugging
   along a 24-bit color 1152 x 870 monitor, trying to convince
   someone that the scanned image on it is legal tender!

   [This article is being published simultaneously in TidBITS and
   Clicks!, the newsletter of the Ithaca Macintosh Users' Group.]

   Copyright 1990-1992 Adam & Tonya Engst. Non-profit, non-commercial
   publications may reprint articles if full credit is given.

   Until today, I was quite sure that scanning fell under the usual laws
   restricting reproduction of U. S. and foreign security obligations. The old
   laws were liberalized back in 1958 and again in 1968 to allow reproduction
   in some cases. The primary exceptions to the usual prohibitions are given
   in Title 18, U. S. Code, Section 504:

   "Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the following are
    permitted:
    [A-C provisions deal with postage/revenue/other securities of the U. S.]
     and
    (D) postage stamps, revenue stamps, notes, bonds, and any other obligation
    or other security of any foreign government, bank or corporation, for
    philatelic, numismatic, educational, historical, or newsworthy purposes in
    articles, books, journals, newspapers, or albums (but not for advertising
    purposes, except illustrations of stamps, and paper money in philatelic or
    numismatic articles, books, journals, newspapers, or albums)."

   The section goes on to spell out how the printed illustrations must appear.
   All have to be in black and white, except that postage stamps can be
   illustrated in color; all must be of a size less than 75% or more than 150%
   in linear dimension of each item illustrated (except that US stamps can be
   exact size if illustrated in b&w). The negatives and plates used have to be
   destroyed "after their final use."

   There's another section regarding film, microfilm or slides for projection
   upon a screen of such items; they're allowed completely except for
   advertising purposes (philatelic advertising is allowed), but you can't
   make prints or other reproductions from such films or slides except by
   permission of the Secretary of the Treasury.


-- Do I really need to keep the photographs or negatives from a client job
-- since I've already scanned the images and have them saved with the rest
-- of the job files for any future changes?

   Maybe not, but I'll answer that question by relating our situation.  Our
   department handles most of the medical photography for the university and
   its various medical research facilities.  This generates thousands of
   negatives a year for us to archive.  We currently have a vault of over 15
   years worth of medical photography negatives.

   We began to toss around the idea of scanning them to store them digitially
   then converting some of our Nikons to the new Kodak digital backs to record
   the imagery in digital form from the get go.  Problem though is two fold:

(1) No digital storage medium is as permanant as film.  Proof is the fact
    that we have film stored for over 40 years that is still in good enough
    shape to make a print and/or re-archive.  Hard drives we bought only five
    years ago are now dead or dying, tape backup is about as reliable over
    long periods of time as an 8-track tape, and optical storage systems once
    thought to be truly permanant have now been shown to begin substrate cor-
    ruption after only years service.

(2) Most digital storage medium mechanisms are bound in time technologically.
    That is to say, if you standardize on DAT tape whose to say that DAT tape
    will not go the way of QIC 20 format or 9 track format.  The mechanism
    may not be available in the near future let alone the distant future.

   So to compensate for this many organizations develop elaborate redunancy
   policies regarding digital storage.  This means that they get multiple
   copies of the image in digital form often on different types of storage
   systems. Redunancy and multiple mediums drastically increase the
   physical space requirements for image storage.  In short, save the
   negatives.