This isn’t really news but you may have heard that the Smithsonian and Corbis had announced that they had reached a “non-exclusive” licensing partnership “to provide widely recognized digital images from the Smithsonians collections for editorial and commercial use at www.corbis.com.” Smithsonian Corbis Licensing Agreement This announcement, coming as it did on the heels of a fire-storm of protest when the Smithsonian announced a similar agreement with Sony, caused the archival community to write again and express concern. The pdf file attached below is the response that SAA received (dated 5 March 2007) which was circulated to the SAA leadership today.