Resumen
In this article, the authors focus on digital access to antiquities and the direct path to original sources. First-rate management of source material and other intellectual property is more difficult and controversial than anticipated. Information protection is crucial. Progress toward improved access is expected to open pathways to deliberate and inadvertent abuse of privileges granted. Making images and text available via the Web and on CD-ROMs is easy; doing so in a way that preserves and enhances critical values is not, particularly when libraries need to make the new services pay for themselves rather than rely on subsidies. Protection needed for intellectual property is often constructed narrowly as copyright privileges. The digitized manuscripts and images should reflect not only the artist's values but the reader's privacy and the owner's confidentiality. Collection curators have varying usage policies, from restrictive to permissive, but all want their holdings to be tastefully represented. For fine arts and manuscripts, quality of representation in digital image distributions is as important to the curators as aspects more commonly considered intellectual property rights.