Image permissions/copyright

[Stephanie Wood]

Dear Caroline,

Although the policy may have changed since my last publication, the 
Archivo General de la Nacion has not charged me when I have published 
an image from one of their manuscripts (except for the cost of 
purchasing the slide). The INAH, however, charged me $75 USD per 
image, even when it was a drawing made by an artist that I paid to 
make a copy from a photograph of a manuscript page or image. Others 
can better speak to the cost of reproducing an image of an object or 
archaeological site.

Best wishes, 
Stephanie Wood

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> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I am currently working on my first book for Palgrave (a development 
of my 
> doctoral thesis about gender in Aztec culture) and I was hoping 
that those 
> on the list with far greater experience might be prepared to offer 
some 
> advice about copyright permissions. As is usual with these things, 
I am 
> wrangling with the publisher about costs of permissions and who 
will pay 
> them (mostly me!) and so have been investigating the best place to 
obtain 
> some images. The cost of permissions vary tremendously between 
institutions 
> and I was wondering if anyone could recommend any particularly good 
(and 
> preferably affordable) sources of Aztec images.
> 
> The pictures in the book will be black and white in-text images, 
not plates, 
> and are mostly intended to illustrate the text and evoke the sense 
of the 
> culture, rather than to be critical to the discussion, which gives 
me quite 
> a lot of flexibility. Any advice or suggestions which you could 
offer would 
> be much appreciated. Thank you all in advance.
> 
> Yours,
> Caroline
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> Dr. Caroline Dodds
> Junior Research Fellow
> Sidney Sussex College
> CB2 3HU
> 
> ced44 at cam.ac.uk 
>